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Bamra: the Collector’s Checklist

Every Bamra issue and value, 21 entries, with pictures where available and a box to tick for each stamp you have.

Jaspreet Kaur

Updated August 3, 2026

Original unframed Bamra quarter-anna, catalogued by Mintage World as SG1 and dated1888

A checklist of Bamra’s stamps for collectors: every issue and value in the research checklist, 21 entries, with a picture for 3 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 Bamra: Stamps and Postal History.

1888–1890 · First typeset issue

PictureValueCatalogueHave
Bamra ¼ anna, First typeset issue¼ anna☐
½ anna☐
1 anna☐
2 annas☐
4 annas☐
8 annas☐

1890, attributed · First design, small resettings (reprint / reset)

PictureValueCatalogueHave
¼ anna☐
½ anna☐

1891, recorded · First design, twenty-subject reprints (reprint)

PictureValueCatalogueHave
¼ anna☐
½ anna☐
1 anna☐
2 annas☐
4 annas☐
8 annas☐

July 1890–1894 · Framed Feudatory State design

PictureValueCatalogueHave
Bamra ¼ anna, Framed Feudatory State design¼ anna☐
Bamra ½ anna, Framed Feudatory State design½ anna☐
1 anna☐
2 annas☐
4 annas☐
8 annas☐
1 rupee☐

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.

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