Stamps From Every Country

i have seen that we have not mentioned Tonyland in the list also known as Barwani

Thank you Emporer Spock for your words of wisdom.

Lucky

Hello JayR101! great to know we are on the same collecting thread, both OFEC, but for me it's OFEC based on the countries listed in year 2007 World Atlas. This would be my OFEC stamp album

So Hongkong stamps wouldnt be in my OFEC album.. instead it would end up in my OFPC stamp album (One From Previous Country) together with Straits Settlements, Malaya and others like Yugoslavia and USSR Cut off is still 2007 World Atlas country listing

Finally theres my JBS Album, short for "Just Beautiful Stamps" these are stamps I specially like for a variety of reasons or for no reason at all

Otherwise it's really difficult to start a collection with no end in sight

Once you include the Indian States, you're on a hiding to nothing. Two States that haven't yet made it to the catalogues, but certainly issued stamps, are Kotah and Tonk. You will need really deep pockets to fill those gaps. On the other hand, you can knock off two whole 'countries', Jasdan and Wadhwan, with single stamps - and the outlay won't be too breathtaking.

i am lazy otherwise I would have shown you my tonk collection

Oh, go on: summon up your energies, and do it!

cic comes to the rescue of galactic emperor.

Close - very close - but no cigar, Rodney. We want postage stamps of Tonk

How do you know? you have never seen a postage stamp from Tonk.
I think we have unveiled an interloper from the planet
discriminatron.
Time to unholster the blue ray evaporater

Ahem! Ahem! The round thing is inscribed around the outer ring 'State of Tonk 1881 Seal Appeals Court'. I remain sceptical, but not discriminatory ...

The closest to Tonk I had was the Tonka truck I had as a kid :)

No, definitely no cigar.

Tonka Trucks was actually from Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Kotah and Tonk? where are those located? Sounds like Asia... interesting places with interesting names

Kotah and Tonk are in the present State of Rajasthan, which under the British was known as Rapjutana. It stretches out to the west from New Delhi, and much of it is desert.

Both Tonk and Kotah are interesting. The ruling family of the old Tonk State were Muslims, in an overwhelmingly Hindu area. Kotah, in the south of Rajasthan, lost a large slab of its territory early in the 19th century, when a general mutinied and seized control of what became the state of Jhalawar, which also issued stamps:



(And that's the complete country, on a simplified basis anyway)

Eventually, Jhalawar was compelled to give back a large part of the territory it gained from Kotah.

The stamps of both Kotah and Tonk are rare. Sorry: I'd love to be able to show them, but