Alwar

Alwar’s dagger stamps of 1877–1902: two values, many lithographic stones, and a redrawn quarter anna.

Alwar: Two Values, Many Printing Stones

Alwar in Rajputana ran its own Raj Dak until 1 July 1902; its lithographed dagger stamps, a quarter anna and a one anna of 1877 and a redrawn quarter anna, fill a large specialist field.
Alwar’s Raj Dak: Offices, Runners, Accounts and Traffic before 1902

Alwar’s own post from the 1870s to 1902: the Sudder office at Ulwur and eighteen branch offices, 35 runners at four or five rupees, free Raj Service mail, the post office accounts and the letters carried.
Who Ran Alwar’s Post: Councillors, the Reform of 1896 and the Stamp Dealers of Ulwur

Alwar’s Regency Council, the experimental reform of the Raj Dak in 1896 and Imperial criticism of it, the postmasters named in 1897, and Ram Gopal & Co., stamp dealers of Ulwur from 1891.
Alwar’s Dagger Stamps of 1877: First Reports, the Design and a Legend

The blue quarter anna and brown one anna with a dagger, reported in Le Timbre-Poste in 1877, a mistaken nine-anna reading, the katar legend of 1905, and an alleged official and postcard.
From One Die to Many Stones: How Alwar’s Stamps Were Printed

Alwar’s lithographed dagger stamps: the six-subject matrix, sheets of 70, 150 and 77, the rouletting rules, watermarked papers, a stone repaired with seven transfers, and the forgeries.
Alwar’s Redrawn Quarter Anna, 1899–1901: Wide and Close Settings

The redrawn dagger quarter anna of 1899 in wide spacing, the close-spaced green printings of 1900–1901, pin perforation, the pale yellow-green pairs and the trimmed ‘proofs’.
Reading ALWAR and ULWAR: Seals, the BEARING Mark and the Circular Town Datestamps

Alwar’s oval seals, rectangular native-script and BEARING marks, Benns’s circular types C1 to C6 with their offices, the Tijara mark and datestamps set upside down.
Alwar Covers: Eight Letters, Combination Mail and the Two-and-a-Half-Anna Question

Alwar covers with State and Indian stamps: four-stamp registered envelopes, the Maroth cover of 1897, Kishengarh and Kathumar in 1898, a value-payable letter of 1893 and Ram Gopal’s later mail.
1 July 1902: Alwar Joins the Imperial Post

Alwar accepted Imperial postal unity with effect from 1 July 1902, the date given twice in the official Rajputana postal review; what the treaty compilation, the news of 1902 and the regional figures add.
Alwar: the Collector’s Checklist

Every Alwar issue and value, 6 entries, with pictures where available and a box to tick for each stamp you have.