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Indian States - Are Any Of These Genuine?

 
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Posted 10/09/2017   03:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add jimjamtwo to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I know it's a long shot, but I'm wondering if any of these look like the genuine article.

Only the last two seem to me to be on what I would call regular stamp paper. (The last one seems to be on pelure paper.)


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Edited by jimjamtwo - 10/09/2017 03:49 am

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The last two certainly look genuine. They are Jammu and Kashmir 'New Rectangulars'. The first one is a half-anna official stamp, which was issued on both wove and laid papers, and the last stamp (which is upside down) is an eighth-anna postage issue.

The rest are indeed imitations of fairly modern production and virtually worthless even as 'reference'.
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Edited by peterh - 10/09/2017 3:02 pm
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Posted 10/09/2017   3:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add perf12 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Check this thread (Duttila stamps,seated bouddha);scroll almost too the end..
http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=13744
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Thanks for the responses!
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Posted 10/09/2017   7:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Peterh is right - all but the last two are modern fakes, and quite worthless (except for a non-collector of Indian States, in which case, they might serve as references).

Note that the supposed Duttia (three first on the second row) are supposed to show a seated Ganesha.
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Posted 10/13/2017   03:01 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jimjamtwo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, tonymacg.
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