So Who's Afraid Of The Indian States?

Plenty of Royalties on the Indian States stamps ...

I applaud the SCF family for job well done , nice very nice .The stage is yours and the world is your audience.

I think we need a counterweight to those overly-nice Jind stamps. How about some really nice Poonch



SG 50: the 1 Anna on blue-green wove bâtonné paper



SG 13: the 1 Anna on white laid bâtonné paper, and



SG 15: the 4 Anna on the same paper

Now those are real stamps

What!
no stamps from Pudokkathai

I have a few more to add to this portfolio on India

Here you are, Young Rodney. Book Review from India Post, Vol.35 No. 147 (2001):

Pudukottai State, South India
Postal History of Pudukottai (Native and Imperial Systems) by R Vaidyanadhan; published by the
author, Chennai [Madras], August 2000, 197 pages, paperback.
Available from the author, 104/S-4 Navin Apartment, Vanniar street, Choolaimedu, Chennai
600 094, India, E-mail: Vaidyanadhan [at] hotmail.com. Price not stated, but understood to be
Rs.200.
David Padgham writes - A quarter-century ago in "India Post" October 1976, ISC member Peter
Röver informed the then largely unappreciative philatelic world of the former existence of a
State Post in this moderate-sized state in Madras Presidency, which collectors overlooked
because it never issued adhesive postage stamps. He described the history of the system from
documentary records, but had never seen a cover or found record of any postal markings.
The late Col. Shenoi in "Ind Dak" January 1980 took us a step further by illustrating several
covers from the collection of local philatelist A S Narayanaswamy, showing datestamps in
English including a very distinctive design resembling an envelope with both top and bottom
flaps opened out. The subject was revived in "Queries & Answers" Q96/08 and of course today
postal historians are keen to research the most obscure systems, while material does now come
on the market following clearances of former state archives.
ISC member Mr. Vaidyanadhan, Sports Editor of "The Hindu" in Madras, has now expanded
on the former researches with the discovery of more material, not only from the State post but
of earlier and later mail handled by the Imperial Post Office. The result is this book, a large part
of which consists of illustrations of covers with fully written-up captions, right down to the
merger of Pudukottai with Madras State in 1948. There is introductory information on the
geography of the villages taken from the "Pudukottai Manual" of 1941, even down to the routes
of rural bus services which carried mails. The types of postmarks are all described, and surprisingly
there is even a section giving timetables of the first airmail flights from UK to India,
despite the fact that no airmails were actually flown into or out of the State.
The main problem for the reader is that many pages are quite illegible due to the reduction in
size, not only of some covers but also of such important documents as the map of the State, on
which even with a lens only a few place names are readable. The poor quality of printing means
that many of the covers illustrated appear totally black with no detail discernible whatsoever. It
is notoriously hard to copy some toned envelopes, but it would have been better to omit these
altogether at the proof stage as they give no information at all, and selective editing would have
yielded a more attractive if slimmer volume.

And I don't think I've posted this one before:





A Travancore-Cochin cover sent perfectly legally to Ireland, during the period from 6 June 1950 to 1 July 1951 when Travancore-Cochin stamps were valid for international mail.

Thank you very much,
(Real men collect Travancore)

I shall pay you your "entertainment tax"




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Real men collect postage stamps, Young Rodney

I have some rather nice Travancore errors somewhere on the water on their way to me. I'll try to remember to post them when they turn up.

Have I shown this proof pair of the 1931 Coronation 3 Chuckrams?

Absolutely lovely Tony, In Royal Tyrian Purple / Plum to boot.
2 pachyderms guarding the Sacred Conch.

Steady on, now, Rodney. This is a family group.

Thank you to Puzzler and tonymacg for responding to my first message on how to upload pictures. I guess I should have used a name other that stampcommunity. I am upoading 3 pictures, one of Kishengarh (unused stamp, near mint condition), and two of Bundi. I have had them for around 45 years. Wondering what they are worth. I looked in one of the online catalogs with not much luck. I am not really a collector. PS: Guess this is not letting me upload the second item.

Will try to upload the other two images now, Bundi2 and Kishengarh. No, it does not let me upload an image now, screen returns to the top of my (this) message.

Stampcommunity, those little Arms types of Bundi have been overshadowed by their predecessors, the Sacred Cows types,



for years. However, the India Study Circle is working on a new Bundi Handbook, which will show just how complex and interestung the Arms types are as well. That may very well lead to a re-rating of your stamps.

In the meantime, assuming that you have a 3½ Anna registered letter rate cover there, it's probably worth around $US60 to $US80.

Do persevere with getting your other images up. We're looking forward to seeing them!

And in the meantime, something for Young Rodney to chew on:



SG 35a - the watermark C 6 cash, perf 12, imperf between