So Who's Afraid Of The Indian States?

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according to Boggs, was a typical Jammu & Kashmir post office during the stamp-issuing period. No drug stores here!

......Just to set the record straight......Spock is NOT the only dedicated reader of this discussion.....I am just content to learn from Tony's knowledge of the subject.

Puzzler,

its anything but a post office these are lil stores that work on all lil ends here and there

and what Tony is showing in his photograph is called a jhopadpatti or a hutment if thats a postoffice then there are billions here

with Tom,also there are a lot of those little jhopadpatti huts in Fiji Spock but mainly around the squatters areas .

Nr-notrare and Nuggethill, am I glad to see you two here

I was beginning to fear the only reader who hadn't yet died or been driven mad with boredom was that young rascal Spock. And of course, he was always a bit of a doubtful quantity anyway

Tony.....

I read just about everything posted on this club, but I don't always feel it necessary to comment. I was taught at the old school that one can learn more by paying attention when the subject is unfamilar and asking questions once the material has been presented.

Great info......please continue.

Don't tell anybody, but I read it too...

And look what was on the envelope of a very nice package of stamps Spock sent me:

Ahha, BeeSee! A scrubbed-up version of the Jammu & Kashmir Post Office!

Tony, wait till Spock wakes up!

Perhaps I've sent him to sleep.

Little tony has sent the whole forum to sleep but he is the only one running about the forum when I am awake. Also we need to get him some glasses he thinks tagores poem is referencing his jammu kashmir post office.

we need to post some glamorous indian states to wake him up. I cant wait for the 6 new issues coming out this year. I am going to create 6 different threads and post poster like images so it can sink in for Tony :) we dont want to wait too long do we. I always believed in catching them young :)

I was thinking of posting some nice, used, George VI era Cochin. Very glamorous.

they have to be mnh to be glamorous. sigh

Essex Stamp Auctions (www.essexstampauctions.com) have various Travancore sheets coming up for auction on the 27 June. Estimates look expensive, but then, any reserve on a Travancore item would look expensive to me ... Rest assured, you will not be bidding against me for them.

Thanks Tony,

i dont bid against anyone ever :) and I certainly wont bid against you :) now when are you bundling all those mnh stamps you dont need into one giant envelope :)