Hyderabad Perfin Stamp 1/2 Anna S J E Perfin

I need a full history on this private perfin S J E from Hyderabad.

The S.J.E. perfin on this Haydarabad 1871 ½A SG 13 is of Salar Jang Estate of Salar Jang, the Prime Minister of Haydarabad State, for the Estate's official correspondences for which no Haydarabad official stamps was authorized and hence ordinary Haydarabad stamps were used by puncturing the initials of the estate to differentiate and prevent any fraudulent usage.

Perfect joy;and muchas gracias..

Does the S J E perfin exist on other values?

Yes. From our Ugly Patriarch Antóin MacGiollamhochuda.

S.J.E. Perfin on Haydarabad 1871 1A SG 14c

Wow ! I want on of those. I suppose they are rare on cover….

Also I find that finding the officials O1-O10 (Scott) is difficult. Why?

What happened to Antóin MacGiollamhochuda?

Hyderabad de Deccan cover 1884 - Hyderabad/Nagaur

Postage: The basic inland letter postage in Br. India which was also applicable to Br. Indian Post Offices located inside the territory of Indian Feudatory States including Haydarabad, was ½A for weight upto 5.83gm (½ tola) from 04.01.1869. to 03.31.1905., which was paid by Br. India 1873 ½A SG 76.

Since this cover was addressed to destination, though in another feudatory state Jodhpur, but outside the Haydarabad state limit, it was posted at the nearest Br. Indian PO at Afzalgañj where a State PO also existed.

Postmarks:
1. The stamp is canceled with Renouf type 17c/Cooper type 32b/Martin 17b M-6/2 simplex barred killer of Afzalgañj SPO.

Description of the Codes
M is the code allotted to Chennai Circle in 1873.

6 is the code of Haydarabad HPO which also acted as the Disbursing Office of Afzalgañj SPO.

2 is the code of Afzalgañj SPO.

This cancel type was introduced in 1873 and by 1884, most of it was gone. Only selected Branch POs continued to use this type as late as 1898.

Afzalgañj SPO was established in 1869 as Afzalgañj Receiving House but there is no mention of this RH in Indian Postal Guides before 1877 when it was functioning under Haydarabad HPO-cum-DO in Haydarabad Division of Chennai Circle.
Afzalgañj RH was upgraded to a Sub PO in 1883.

2. The Afzalgañj cds type was introduced in 1883 to selected HPOs/SPOs which were not allotted datestamps with index letters denoting specific time.
Haydarabad Dakkhin is referred in to differentiate it from another Br. Indian PO of Haydarabad in Sindh Circle (from 11/1879 in Pañjab Circle).

3. The Nagaur cds type was also introduced in 1883 to selected HPOs/SPOs which were not allotted datestamps with index letters or with district name.

The Br. Indian Nagaur SPO, located in Nagaur (27.1983°N 73.7493°E), now in Nagaur district of Rajasthan, was established in 1875 inside the territory of the feudatory state of Jodhpur, under Ajmer HPO in Rajputana Circle (created in 4/1871 with HQ Mount Abu) under direct administrating control of the Rajputana Division, by CE Miller, Chief Inspector of Post Ofices Rajputana Division who exercised the same power of PMG.

Incidentally, both the cdss include the year slugs, as 1884 marks the end (barring a few BPOs) of so-called no-year phase of datestamps beginning from 1873.

A brief explanation of the first characters at the beginning of the address is here.

https://goscf.com/t/64714#562567

The cover is written in Mahajani script. Unfortunately I cannot post the exact transcription as SCF does not support Unicode.

Joy: Thanks for the nice detailed explanation.
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This cover originated from "Barsi Town". Departure date 27 jul 1900 & arrival at
Hyderabad 30 jul 1900 (1309).With a boxed Registered "Barsi Town" handstamp with
another box handstamp next to 609 on the upper part of the over.(Fast mail service!)

This is actually Mahsul Talab (literally means Charge/Duty/Tax Summoned) or Postage Due handstamp (Nayim type 5) (2.1cm×1cm) applied at state Haydarabad HPO.

This was charged due because the destination Hanmakonda (18.0056°N 79.5572°E), now in Varangal district of Telangana, did not have any Br. Indian PO until 1914 and hence the 1900 Barshi-Hanmakonda cover had to be handed over to Haydarabad State Post to get it delivered thru its PO in Hanmakonda functioning in Varangal Division, following Article 5 of the Postal Agreement of 1882 signed between the British India Government and Government of Haydarabad on August 10&12,1882 but peculiarly already put on effect on August 1,1882.