Bahawalpur: the Collector’s Checklist

A checklist of Bahawalpur’s stamps for collectors: every issue and value in the research checklist, 30 entries, with a picture for 11 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 Bahawalpur: Stamps and Postal History.

1 December 1947 · Bicentenary of foundation

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ anna		☐

1 April 1948 · Definitive series

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	½ anna		☐
	9 pies		☐
	1 anna		☐
	1½ annas		☐
	2 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	6 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐
	1 rupee		☐
	2 rupees		☐
	5 rupees		☐
	10 rupees		☐

1948 · New colours, high values

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 rupee		☐
	2 rupees		☐
	5 rupees		☐
	10 rupees		☐

3 October 1948 · Union with Pakistan commemorative

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1½ annas		☐

15 October 1948 · Multan campaign centenary

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ anna		☐

3 March 1949 · Accession silver-jubilee series

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	½ anna		☐
	9 pies		☐
	1 anna		☐

10 October 1949 · UPU commemoratives

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	9 pies		☐
	1 anna		☐
	1½ annas		☐
	2½ annas		☐

1947; exact status contested · Star-and-crescent handstamps on India (contested provisional)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	Various Indian base values; complete verified census not supplied		☐

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.