Bhopal: the Collector’s Checklist

A checklist of Bhopal’s stamps for collectors: every issue and value in the research checklist, 17 entries, with a picture for 1 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 Bhopal: Stamps and Postal History.

Shah Jahan era: 1872 reported–1899 · Shah Jahan Begum primitives

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

1902 · Sultan Jahan Begum series

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

1908 · Arms, one-anna ordinary issue

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 anna		☐

1903; reported display includes 1908 · Postcards and envelopes (postal stationery)

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ anna postcard (1903)		☐
	½ anna green envelope (1903; multiple settings)		☐
	¼ anna SERVICE view postcard (1908)		☐

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.