So Who's Afraid Of The Indian States?

Don't kill him rod he is the only one who talks to me when the forum is sleeping

Tony r you ok

Poor fellow I don't think he thinks those r real states

Yes Tony everything is in

You've been at the Rudyard Kipling again, haven't you, Rodney?

"And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Kathmandu
And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban."

Rudyard on a "Selection stamp"



A primitive from Oudeypoor Palumpoor :

Ahem! Ahem! Your stamp is inverted, Rodney. Or was it printed that way?

C'mon Tony! your screen is upside down.

It's no good, Rodney. I tried a la Father William, but I still can't make head or tail of it.

lol

On an entirely different note ...

For those who think mere blocks of four are for wimps,





Jaipur SG 23

This paid the 3 Annas (12 x ¼ Anna) Registration rate, the hard way. I've seen this done before from Jaipur. It can't be because the ¼ Anna stamp was redundant: it paid the postcard rate, and continued to do so for several years after the date of this cover (1929). It might be that smaller post offices were only supplied with the minimum face value stamp, on the assumption that they weren't likely to need much else.

I don't know - all suggestions welcome

but dear Tony your dedicated readership is limited to me. :)

of course Rod pops in from time to time :)

I didnt think jaipur could have a lot of post offices its not that big you know :)

Tony has left for the day and I am back to trolling the forum.

sigh we miss you tony :(

I'm afraid I also have a living to earn out there in the real world, and clients can be very demanding.

Now, Jaipur post offices: there were dozens of them. Collectors have devoted their lives to trying to sort out the intricacies of the Jaipur postal system. Goodness: even Barwani had around a dozen State post offices (and trying to find examples from each of them is a lifetime's work, too).

cant you get me a job?

i dont even have enough money to go tot the barber and as you can see my collection is being sold on a daily basis.

no no dear Tony what youa re thinking of as post offices is not a post office sure they took mail and sold stamps but at that rate you will find 20 in one street we are talking real post offices and most of the states didnt have it sadly most of the states still dont have it :(

So let me get this straight. The Indian States post offices sold stamps, postmarked mail, delivered mail and received it



but they weren't post offices?

An interesting proposition. It makes me wonder whether my local post office is a post office, or something entirely different, masquerading as a post office.

No, Spock, you must admit: these were proper post offices, doing proper postal work. And they have the added advantage that they're no longer churning out endless, useless new issues to part the poor collector from his few pitiful pennies (or annas). Better still, many of them didn't bother with gum on the backs of their stamps, so there need be none of this silly concern with unhinged mint.

you really need to come to India Tony and see it with your own eyes. if you think grocery stores and juice centers and tobacco joints are post offices then you have inhaled the barwani too closely :)

and for the record unhinged mint doesnt have anything to do with gum. the last 3 new issues dont have gum in 2010.

Perhaps sometime you could show us all what the stores are like spock? It would be fascinating. I know it is probably different than me saying that the franchise Post Office is in a drug store here.