Chamba: the Collector’s Checklist

A checklist of Chamba’s stamps for collectors: every issue and value in the research checklist, 97 entries, with a picture for 10 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 Chamba: Stamps and Postal History.

1887–1897 coverage · Queen Victoria, CHAMBA / STATE

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	½ annas		☐
	1 annas		☐
	1½ annas		☐
	2 annas		☐
	2½ annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	6 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐
	1 rupees		☐
	2 rupees		☐
	3 rupees		☐
	5 rupees		☐

1900; 1902–1904 · Late Queen Victoria additions

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	½ annas		☐
	1 annas		☐
	2 annas		☐

1903–1907 · Edward VII ordinary

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	½ annas		☐
	1 annas		☐
	2 annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	6 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐
	1 rupee		☐

1913–1927 · George V, single-star watermark

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	½ annas		☐
	1 annas		☐
	2 annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	6 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐
	1 rupee		☐
	1½ annas		☐
	2½ annas		☐

1921 · George V denomination surcharge

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	9 pies on 1 anna		☐

1927–1928 · George V, multiple-star watermark

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

1932–1937 · George V later types and colours

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	9 pies		☐
	½ annas		☐
	1 annas		☐
	1¼ annas		☐
	1½ annas		☐
	2 annas		☐
	2½ annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	6 annas		☐

1938 · George VI portrait and postal-transport designs

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	9 pies		☐
	½ annas		☐
	1 annas		☐
	2 annas		☐
	2½ annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	3½ annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	6 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐
	1 rupees		☐
	2 rupees		☐
	5 rupees		☐
	10 rupees		☐
	15 rupees		☐
	25 rupees		☐

1942–1947 · George VI later low values

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	3 pies		☐
	9 pies		☐
	½ annas		☐
	1 annas		☐
	1½ annas		☐
	2 annas		☐
	3 annas		☐
	3½ annas		☐
	4 annas		☐
	6 annas		☐
	8 annas		☐
	12 annas		☐
	14 annas		☐

1943 catalogue group · George VI later rupee overprints

Picture	Value	Catalogue	Have
	1 rupees		☐
	2 rupees		☐
	5 rupees		☐
	10 rupees		☐
	15 rupees		☐
	25 rupees		☐

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.