So Who's Afraid Of The Indian States?

I appreciate what Joy states and the listing in Koeppel & Manners, but I remain doubtful that any of these lithographed 'reproductions', imperf and perforated in fancy colours, saw any use as revenue stamps.

Indeed, K & M leave these unpriced, saying they have not seen them used as such, but only CTO.

Does anyone have evidence that these were issued as revenues?

If indeed these Revenues were never actually used as such, would that make them bogus? I.e., an official reproduction for the philatelic market? Something like the red ½ Anna that I posted above?

That's my understanding - the only issued stamps were those handstamped in blue as listed in SG. All others were imitations made for collectors.

Can anyone show me evidence that any of these were genuinely used for revenue or postage?

Thanks, peterh. I'll be interested to see whether anyone can answer your question.

Travancore, Fugitive Inks?

My copy of Gibbons, Commonwealth and British Empire (2004) mentions the use of fugitive inks for Travancore but doesn't indicate when or for which issues they were used. Were all stamps of Travancore always printed using fugitive inks? If so, I'd avoid soaking, but what about the use of a sweat box? I'm only looking to remove old hinges.

can anyone help w/ the Scott numbers for these 2? My 2019 vol says O46-51 if im reading it right, but it doesnt seem to match. Tks - I've been out for awhile.....

-I believe these two are Gwalior 94 and 95 in Scott

ok. tks. so im working from scott 2019 catalogue. Is this a misprint where it refers to O46-O51?? Tks much

Hi Stamps4life, I believe Scott is pointing to the officials because they don't have Gwalior overprinted, so to make it easier for collectors to find the overprinted officials. Boydcbiggs is correct on the stamps identification, Gwalior#94 and #95.

Tks both for setting me straight. It's been awhile since I looked at these and I've forgotten the little that I had picked up#129300;. Got it ( for now). Happy new year.

so I found the below in the Hyderabad stamps im now going through. Guessing its cut from an envelope but that's all I know. Can anyone help w/ the translation? Hindi or Urdu? Not sure where it belongs. Thank you....

Hi, 1891 Hyderabad postal stationery, 1/2 anna. I used the search function here to find out that info.

Thank you very much. I think I saw that date too or lease similar in a post but when I put it into the translator for Urdu nothing came up. Then I tried Hyderabad and again no match. I did see some using the search but the ones I saw were hard to compare because of the cancels and it's hard to find an Urdu translation. I uploaded to google pics[I think] with no luck. Appreciate the Hyderabad confirm.

I am trying to locate the district of Bawulpindee in a red hexagonal cancel (1870).
Could be a different spelling of Rawalpindi ?
Any clues?

i did some looking online and in a book or 2 I have. nothing but this: guess you probably saw this online? Other mentions Punjab Sorry