Hyderabad: the Collector’s Checklist

A checklist of Hyderabad’s stamps for collectors: every issue and value in the research checklist, 47 entries, with a picture for 45 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 the Hyderabad articles listed beside this page.

1869 · Calligraphic inscription

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐

1870–1871 · Outline / “skeleton” inscription

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ anna	SG 2	☐
	2 annas	SG 3	☐

1871–1909 · POST STAMP

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ anna		☐
	1 anna		☐
	2 annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐

c. 1900–1909 · New value on POST STAMP (surcharge)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	¼ anna on ½ anna		☐

1902 · Larger POST STAMP

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	¼ anna		☐

1905–1911 · Seal / POSTAGE

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	¼ anna		☐
	½ anna		☐
	1 anna		☐
	2 annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐

1912 · Seal / POSTAGE

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	¼ anna		☐
	½ anna		☐

1915–1916 · POST & RECEIPT

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ anna		☐
	1 anna		☐

1927 · Nizam’s Government seal

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 rupee		☐

1930 · Red new-value overprints (surcharge)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	4 pies on ¼ anna		☐
	8 pies on ½ anna		☐

1931 · Seal; Charminar; High Court; reservoir; Ajanta; Bidar; Daulatabad

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	4 pies		☐
	8 pies		☐
	1 anna	SG 43 (Charminar)	☐
	2 annas	SG 44 (High Court)	☐
	4 annas	SG 45 (reservoir)	☐
	8 annas	SG 46 (Ajanta)	☐
	12 annas		☐
	1 rupee		☐

1937 · Silver Jubilee: Unani Hospital; Osmania Hospital; university; Jubilee Hall (commemorative)

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

1946 · Returning soldier / Victory (commemorative)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐

1947 · Town Hall / Reformed Legislature (commemorative)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐

1947–1949 · Power House; Warangal arch; Golconda Fort

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

1947 · Seal

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ anna		☐

1948 · Seal

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	6 pies		☐

1949 · Seal

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	2 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.