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Bhor: the Collector’s Checklist

Every Bhor issue and value, 7 entries, with pictures where available and a box to tick for each stamp you have.

Jaspreet Kaur

Updated May 7, 2026

Bhor first-issue ½ anna, oval handstamped design, catalogued 1879

A checklist of Bhor’s stamps for collectors: every issue and value in the research checklist, 7 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 Bhor: Stamps and Postal History.

Reported May 1879 · Oval red design

PictureValueCatalogueHave
Bhor ½ anna, Oval red design½ anna☐

Reported May 1879 · Oblong red design

PictureValueCatalogueHave
Bhor 1 anna, Oblong red design1 anna☐

Reported 1880–1881 · Square labels, black on coloured paper (fiscal, not a postage issue)

PictureValueCatalogueHave
2 annas☐
4 annas☐
8 annas☐
Bhor 1 rupee, Square labels, black on coloured paper1 rupee☐

6 June 1901 (reported in January 1902) · Later half-anna portrait label (disputed postal attribution)

PictureValueCatalogueHave
½ anna☐

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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