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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 January 2012 at 04:51
Where do you find your stamps ambrofos?  Any tips?
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Here is another one of these stamps with a special seal tab at the bottom.


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Post Options Post Options   Quote ambrofos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 March 2012 at 01:36
There are other kinds of court stamps - called Tulbana - used for process service fee







These have a lot of charm


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Printed stamp papers are also fun to collect.   They have quite complicated and gorgeous heraldry.


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Sometimes we can find both stamp paper with extra stamps applied


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There are different dies of stamps that show distinctive spelling differences.  Here are some striking examples where FOUR has been spelled EOUR.   The FOUR variety is actually scarcer.

These dies also show the SAMBAT year of issue (1939).   To get the date anno domini, subtract 57 years and one sees that it is from 1882 A.D.



and this is from 1944 (1887 A.D.)






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Hi - Here is an old-time collection of unusual values, designs, and shades that I did not have previously.  Sometimes good things come to those who wait.

Some of these have "cancels".  I have seen the "B" once before, but not the circular mark on the black quarter anna.  I have never seen any of the low denominations on document. 

Has anyone else?



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I got this collection of Bikaner stamps in the mail today.  All the papers are thin.  The stamp with the "B" cancel is on yellowish thin paper.  It also has a tilted offset impression  of another one anna stamp on its reverse.

    The "gray shades" in two cases really appear to be ink of a different color rather than just a small amount of black ink.

    The deep black shades have a shininess to the black ink - as if a lot of binder had been added to the ink.   If this glossiness is due to binder,  its probably gum tragancanth which is put into watercolors to help the ink spread evenly and attach itself to the paper.
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A bit of a diversion, but these latest stamps appear to be quite crude by any standards. Normally there is some sort of security regarding the printing of stamps, or measures to prevent employees stealing those stams used for postage (eg perfins). What could prevent copies of these stamps being printed, employees taking the cash and pocketting it?
Were these for government documents, receipts, licences or what?
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Hi Steve - The stamps of Bikaner have quite a bit of security associated with them to prevent their reuse - more in fact than most stamps.  The stamps are printed on extremely thin paper, highly porous, and in watercolor.  Therefore, any attempt to wash them off the paper will result in total loss of the image.  Also, in Bikaner, a document (court, deed, hundi etc...)  is not legal unless it has the stamp upon it.  Typically, this stamp is required to be cancelled by some device, and this usually is a hole punch or a seal.  Most used stamps are punched, and are on the whole document, or at least part of the document on which they were used.  Unused stamps, which are ungummed (or they would curl up completely) and also off paper, do not have holes.  Adhesive stamps are on very thin paper.  "Stamps" on thick paper are cut-outs from revenue stamped paper.  There are two types of paper on revenue stamped paper - a thick, soft, yellowish wove paper and grayish hard, strongly laid, semi-translucent paper.  Sometimes stamped paper is uprated with an adhesive thin-paper stamp, as illustrated on this site.  The stamp papers here which are not punch cancelled are more difficult to come by than those which have holes. 
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