2027 stamp calendar: 12 princely-state stamps and their stories. A perfect gift for stamp enthusiasts and history lovers.
Pre-order nowJind’s lithographed local stamps of 1874–1885 and its convention overprints, spelt JHIND, JEEND and JIND.
Jind printed its own stamps at Sangrur from 1874–75, then used British Indian stamps overprinted JHIND, JEEND and JIND from 1 July 1885 until 1950: the state, its rulers and its stamps.
Jind’s own post before 1885, the convention with the Imperial post that began on 1 July 1885, the revised convention of 1900, and the offices of the state from Sangrur to Dadri.
The first local series of five values, the azure laid paper of 1876, the later designs with the quarter anna, and how the lithographic stones were built from transfers.
Why a used Jind native stamp may record a petition or a treasury receipt rather than a letter, how fiscal sheets were made in Sangrur jail, and the walking-lion essay.
How British Indian stamps were overprinted in Calcutta for Jind, the curved JHIND STATE, the JEEND spelling and the reply from Calcutta, settings, inversions, trial settings and reprints.
De La Rue bases overprinted in Calcutta, the Nasik printings from 1926, the nine-pies surcharge, the 1929 booklet, the George VI name changes, the fifteen-rupee watermark and the official stamps.
The native quarter-anna cards of 1883–84, Evans’s study of their packets, the convention cards and envelopes from 1885, Cowen’s six arms dies and Gledhill’s George V and George VI cards.
Native covers with heart-shaped cancellations, official covers from Sangrur, the rates of 1907, 1922 and 1929, money-order limits, and the covers to Auxerre and Bombay in 1933.
The JAI HIND slogan of August 1947, Jind’s merger into PEPSU in 1948, the postal takeover of 16 September 1949 and the validity of Jind stamps to 31 December 1950.
Testing a dagger cancellation, a photographic forgery that copied a retouch, Fournier’s forged Sangrur postmark, and how to keep Jind’s native, convention and stationery material apart.
Every Jind issue and value, 164 entries, with pictures where available and a box to tick for each stamp you have.
