Soruth (Junagadh): the Collector’s Checklist

A checklist of Soruth (Junagadh)’s stamps for collectors: every issue and value in the research checklist, 26 entries, with a picture for 5 of them. Tick the box for each stamp you have. Official stamps are not listed, and neither are the shades, papers, perforations, settings and errors of each issue, which need a specialist catalogue. Catalogue numbers are Stanley Gibbons (SG), or Scott or a published handbook where the research gives no SG number; a blank means no number from a published catalogue has been confirmed. Print the page, or keep it open while you sort your stamps.

The history of the state and its stamps is in Soruth (Junagadh): Stamps and Postal History.

1864 · Black handstamped first issue

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐

Typeset issue, placed in 1868 by Dawson; later settings · Native typeset inscriptions with rosettes; changing settings

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐
	2 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐

1877 catalogue grouping · SORUTH POSTAGE in an ellipse

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna green		☐

1877 catalogue grouping · SORUTH POSTAGE in a circle

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	4 annas red		☐

1913–1914 album grouping · Numeral-family value surcharges

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies on 1 anna		☐
	1 anna on 4 annas		☐

1914 album; 1915 in Klaseboer · Later circular/oval numeral colours

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies green		☐
	1 anna red		☐

1923; later laid-paper printings 1923–1929 · Portrait; SOURASHTRA POSTAGE

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies violet		☐
	1 anna red		☐

1923 catalogue grouping · Native-character three-pies surcharge on portrait

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies on 1 anna		☐

1 October 1929 · Nasik bicoloured pictorials

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	6 pies		☐
	1 anna		☐
	2 annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	1 rupee		☐

1934–35 development; 30 May 1935 dispatch reported; 1936/1937 source headings · Portrait frame inscribed POSTAGE AND REVENUE (postage and revenue)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐

1949 · U.S.S. validation on a Bhavnagar one-anna court-fee stamp (transitional postal-fiscal)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐

1949–1950, as catalogued · Pictorials surcharged POSTAGE & REVENUE / ONE ANNA (transitional postage and revenue)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna on ½ anna		☐
	1 anna on 2 annas		☐
	1 anna on 3 pies		☐

Pictures: historical stamps, public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, auction and dealer records and other sources recorded in the research. A picture shows the design and value; it does not identify the shade, paper or printing of your copy.