India Service Stamp 1 1/2

Hello members,

I have this stamp from India red line on the bottom, please advice. Thank you. Mara

Guess: "Jubilee Line" strengthening the printing plate.

See here, more reading from our "Uglies" man, Mr. Tony Mac.

(About half way down second page)

https://goscf.com/t/8422 br /

"Jubilee lines" an English expression, may not relate to Indian Philately.
Here, see the darker lines surrounding the GB QV stamps?.........
These are :Jubilee Lines"
The other lines are "Pillars" or "Ladders"

The colored band below this Bhopal 1945 1½A Bhopal Coat of Arms claret typograph official stamp (SG O353) on white wove paper with perf.11¾ (incorrectly catalogued by Gibbons as 12), is not the so-called jubilee line but part of 2mm-thick frameline around the sheet, 2½mm from the stamps, as part of the typographic printing plate consisting 81 subjects arranged as 9×9.

This line has nothing to do with strengthening of the printing plate but is simply part of the sheet design.

For example, Sorath 1913 1A on 1886 4A crimson SG 34 was printed in sheets of only 5 stamps (5×1) but the sheet has similar thick lines/bars all around the stamps.



(from the collection of my good friend Rajesh Sahasrabuddhe)

A small sheet like this never required any strengthening of plate unlike Jhalawar SG 1&2 sheets of 12 (1×2) which did require 2 reinforcing screws at two ends.

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The very term "Jubilee Lines" is a smack of imperialism, coined from Vicky's golden jubilee in 1887 though it first appeared in GB 1881 1d lilac issue.

In India, it is more commonly called "marginal rules" which first appeared in sheets of Br. Indian stamps in 1887.

These marginal rules were used to keep the clichés or subjects of the typographic plates in position, placed very closed to the marginal stamps (unlike the Bhopal stamp here), which typically was necessary for large plates like this Tiruvitamkur 1943 4 Kashu on ¾ Chakram SG 74a, consisting 112 subjects arranged in 2 panes of 56 stamps (4×14).

Thank you members for your feedback.

Mara