The Stamps Of India : On Steiner Pages.

Curiosity, some industrious fellow, has "cut to shape" a Postcard.
Mutilated Stationery
PANDHARPUR (Maharashtra)

Auxilliary Markings : Boxed R.M.S : Railway Mail Service. Quick Mail Service (see below)

Mutilated Stationery : Airletters and Aerogrammes.

Cover : Cuttack (Bengal Presidency) now Odissa , to Kolcata. April 29-30th 1886



Cuttack (Odissa)
Birthplace of Subhas Chandra Bose.

Regarding Akidu, the full postmark I believe is AKIDU GODAVARI.

Akidu is in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, and is now called Akividu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akividu

Auxilliary Markings : Boxed R.M.S : Railway Mail Service.




This is actually Q.M.S. (Quick Mail Service)

Peter,
fabulous information, my gratitude.
New album page required but no problem.

Kudos to the Akidu Godivari, I searched everywhere for that.
Not in Falling Rain. (Akividu is however)
http://www.indianphilatelics.com/ca...-type-1.html


Vadophil: Issue No. 24
By Baroda Philatelic Society


Is Akividu a village or town? Officially it is not a Municipality but a Panchayat and Firca. Yet it has all the trappings of a town. This village/town had floating population always from neighbouring villages and villages from Kolleru Lake as well.

Akividu had a fully functional Post Office, where you can send telegrams, buy money orders, send registered mail and open a Postal Savings account. Of course there was trunk call facility, which was a small rectangle closet, you can talk your lungs out. Mail was delivered twice a day, morning and evening, by a Postman who walked or rode a bicycle along his route. In addition money orders and Telegrams were delivered by a designated Postman.

Akividu had a Police Station with Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, Writer and Policemen. In those days Policemen and Elementary School Teachers were most under paid.

Copyright Raju
https://akividu.blogspot.com/2007/1...akividu.html

Cinderellas.

During October 1979 two stamps inscribed "HAPPY CHILD NATION'S PRIDE" with face value of 50 p. and 1 r.were issued to post offices.These were intended for sale as charity lables,without postal validity.The proceeds
going to a Child Welfare fund. It would seem that the instructions issued were unclear,however,as some post offices sold these labels as postage stamps and accepted mail franked with them.



TB Seal 1982

Postmarks.
Sc#38A (REG) 25th January 1890 GYA aka GIA, GAYA.
Gia or Gya is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh in India
Gaya is an ancient city, with a Buddhist documented history dating back to the 6th century BCE when the sage Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, 16 km (9.9 mi) from the modern city, and became the Buddha.


Commercial Overprints.
WILLIAM ABERCROMBIE

Sc#232 Stegodon.


1957 Steiner Page 9.

Postmark.
Sc#200 1947
Guess : COTTON MILL SO NAGAR CAWNPORE (Kanpur)
SO=Sub Office (Non delivery)


RPO ? (Railway Post Office) Mandvi-Bombay
Sc#223 1949

Perfin SBWK 1960
The puncture operator has tried too many sheets at once, or the pins are blunt, and have not successfully penetrated this example, but picked up the orange ink from the stamp below it.



Paying a licence to Watch Television or listen to the Radio.
Postmark : Slogan
"Renew your radio licence by the last postal bking working day of January"

Radio and TV Licence Booklet.

Postmark.
GREAT EASTERN HOTEL

Great Eastern Hotel was founded by David Wilson in 1841 and was known as Auckland Hotel. Wilson's Hotel, Auckland Hotel, Hall of Nations, Japani Hotel, Jewel of the East are the other names of Great Eastern Hotel itself.

Mark Twain described it as the best hotel East of the Suez on his voyage along the Equator. Rudyard Kipling mentioned the hotel in "The City of Dreadful Night" It has been host to such notables as Queen Elizabeth II & Nikita Khruschev.
The hotel was privatised in November 2005 with the help of Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
The hotel has been re-christened The Grand Great Eastern, Kolkata.
Currently, the hotel has over 244 rooms.
Sc#173

Perfin SW&Co Kolkata.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23268...3/3927493749


Auxilliary Markings : Large Oval LATE FEE PAID (Obligatory)
Sc#C3 1929

ExHipstamp.

1955 Steiner Page 7.

1958 Steiner page 10.

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The barred rectangular B killer is Renouf type 18/Cooper type 34 simplex cancel (introduced in 1879) which was used by all post offices under Mumbai Circle.

Without the accompanying cds part (separately struck in case of simplex killer or at the left of the killer in case of the duplex type) showing the PO name, it is practically impossible to attribute the 8-bar B killers to Adan or to conclusively label it to be Robertshaw type 20/Graham type C14/Proud type K12/Lowe type C11 cancel of Adan.

Here is an example of the same Renouf type 18/Cooper type 34 simplex B obliterator, struck by Malegão SPO, Malegão (20.5579°N 74.5089°E), now in Nashik district of Maharashtra state.