So Who's Afraid Of The Indian States?

I've got an Ugly, could you tell me whether its real or not?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...Unknown3.jpg

if you are calling it an ugly what difference does it make?

fwiw I can neither see the a or the n in the anna

maybe tony knows of varieties with those missing

I'm not calling it an Ugly, I value all stamps, its just a nice nickname.

Looks perfectly OK to me Katchem_ash.

Indeed, it might be a bit better than OK. These stamps were printed on laid paper - it has a 'watermark' of closely spaced parallel lines. Your copy seems to have the laid lines horizontal.

If so, it's a nice find. These stamps on horizontal laid paper are about ten times less common than on vertical laid paper.

Your stamp looks to be from the right hand end of the sheet (which was a horizontal strip of 12 stamps).

I agree, too: these may be 'Uglies', but your stamp, Jhalawar SG 2, is far from ugly I've always thought it was a very attractive design. And so what if the printing is a little rough? These were local people, doing the best they could with limited resources, and not bothering to try to mulct the poor old long-suffering collector. So take that, Spock

I am aware the intelligentsia all name this design
a Nymph, or Apsara.
However because of an early mis-identification,
I shall always see this as a "Whirling Dervish".

it is devilish look at tony's smiley. its a sad thing that these were allowed to become stamps they dont fit in the glamor thread

You know, I was just looking back to page 1 of this thread, and what did I see? Bahawalpur. It's a sad thing that these were allowed to become stamps they dont fit in the Uglies thread.

well I will willingly sacrifice bhawalpur if the rest of the stamps on page 1 would also disappear :)

I'm not sure how much of a sacrifice that is, Young Spock. As I remarked, Bahawalpur is now part of Pakistan; all the other stamps on Page 1 are still from India ...

lil Tony why do you care for the logistics just think all the ugly stamps from bhawalpur will be gone for ever

lil Tony why do you care for the logistics just think all the ugly stamps from bhawalpur will be gone for ever

And - just as a matter of interest - what are you going to do about Las Bela?



I take it you'll allow some Jaipur in



but what about those ugly surcharges?



And I suppose you'd allow in this 1 Rupee



SG 15

but how about the surcharged version?



SG 33b (and yes, it is a different shade)

finally you are learning to distinguish real stamps from the also rans

i approve your above post :)

all of them are allowed in :)

Las Bela is in too?

When are you going to post issues of the Princely State
of Oudeypoor Palumpoor???