Orchha: Royal Arms, Portraits and Disputed Issues
Orchha in Bundelkhand ran a State post from Tikamgarh from 1895; its stamps run from a disputed arms set of about 1897 to the portraits of 1935 and 1939.
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Orchha’s state post at Tikamgarh, its disputed arms stamps of 1897, the arms issues of 1913 and the portraits of Vir Singh Deo.
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Orchha’s State Post: Tikamgarh, Police Stations and Runners
How Orchha’s Darbar post worked from 1895: offices at the police stations, a runner line to Nowgong, seventeen State offices, and a schoolmaster who was postmaster for two posts.
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Orchha’s Arms Stamps: the Disputed Set of 1897 and the Arms of 1913–1916
The lithographed arms stamps reported in 1900 and perhaps prepared in 1897, the jeweller Mr. White, the crude arms of 1913 and the redrawn arms of 1914–1916.
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Orchha’s Portrait Stamps: the 1935 Series, Its Withdrawal, the Nasik Issue and the Last Covers
Vir Singh Deo’s bicoloured portraits of 1 April 1935, the Treasury seal and the Saharanpur agents, the shortage that ended the series, the Nasik portraits of 1939 and covers to 1949.
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Orchha: the Collector’s Checklist
Every Orchha issue and value, 47 entries, with pictures where available and a box to tick for each stamp you have.
