Gigantic Queen Victoria fiscal stamps pre-1880 of INDIA

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:23:36 pm

I would like to share some images of large size QV stamps.

I hope members would like to comment on these.

1. The pair of One Rupee and Eight Anna stamps often found on Hundis.

2. The five rupee stamps found on Court documents.

More to follow.

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:25:54 pm

3. The 10 Rupee Court Fee Stamp:

4. The 40 Rupee Version

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:27:46 pm

5. The 70 Rupee Court Fee

6. The 100 Rupee Court Fee

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:28:52 pm

This set contains the rare 200 Rupee stamp

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:29:43 pm

400 Rupees Court Fee

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:31:00 pm

Small denomination 2 Anna stamps used on Hundi

Thanks and regards

jeremy29 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:31:30 pm

very nice. I love these stamps and have quite a few of the lower values. Are they worth anything?

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 16:37:34 pm

Jeremy29,

I do not have much idea of market values for these stamps. But I love them very much.For me they are invaluable.I have most of the smaller Anna values also.Which are the ones that you have? Post some images please.

Thanks and regards.

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 17:11:02 pm

Some not so big:

1. 4 Annas

2. One Anna

3. And the eight Anna

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 17:12:52 pm

Back to the huge ones

5 Rupees

...and 10 Rupees

Notice the embossed cancel on these stamps.

Thanks and regards.

muruk · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 17:34:11 pm

Nice items, thanks for sharing.

birder · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 00:19:17 am

These are June 1879 cancels.
Notice that the denomination as well as the date, both form part of the elaborate cancellation.

Thanks and regards

birder · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 14:15:38 pm

Six Rupees overprinted Annas

ikanek · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 19:46:44 pm

These are nice stamps. As per value, these seems to be quite popular and therefore the price of them is quite high despite of high quantities printed. Values above 50 rupees are quite rare.

tonymacg · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 20:50:40 pm

A few I rescued from my rubbish box:

Impressive-looking, as you'd expect for that amount of money :lol:

(The last two are intact. I just forgot not to place them too near the top of my scanner

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birder · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 07:16:09 am

tonymacg wrote:

A few I rescued from my rubbish box:

Fimply Fuperb rubbish box contents. Very very good stuff.

Thanks and regards.

birder · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 05:27:11 am

Three Annas

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 21:47:21 pm

Nice looking stamps there. This is the first time I've seen scans of them.
Thanks for sharing these scans with us.

tonymacg · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 01:03:57 am

A more modest value - 5 Rupees - but nice to see it on its original document

The document also has an affidavit attached attesting to the signature, and with a New South Wales 1/- Stamp Duty stamp as well. Unfortunately, the old foolscap page is just too long to fit on my scanner: it cuts off the bottom of the page, with most of the NSW duty stamp. (A bob for an affidavit seems rather stiff, though :lol:

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Not Bruce · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 02:56:55 am

Here's a load of mint ones...

birder · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 03:27:41 am

Bruce these are lovely. Thanks for sharing.

birder · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 03:35:54 am

tonymacg wrote:

The document also has an affidavit attached attesting to the signature, and with a New South Wales 1/- Stamp Duty stamp as well.

The NSW Stamp Duty adhesive is not visible at all. Can we get to see it?

Also the embossed Stamp Office appears to be a Queen's Head One Anna from Calcutta. Can this be scanned separately?

Thanks and regards.

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 04:31:04 am

tonymacg wrote:

A few I rescued from my rubbish box:

I can't believe these stamps are in your rubbish box, the high values are really quite valuable!

tonymacg · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:41:15 am

Birder, here are the two scans:

The NSW 1/- Duty Stamp:

and the detail of the embossed Calcutta Collectorate cancellation:

tonymacg · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:45:08 am

Not Bruce wrote:

tonymacg wrote:

A few I rescued from my rubbish box:

I can't believe these stamps are in your rubbish box, the high values are really quite valuable!

Not Bruce, you should see the good stuff :lol:

Seriously, though, I had no idea they were of any interest or value. Not my subject - I just acquired then in the course of picking up other things. Here are better scans, and also an example of a 50 Rupee:

birder · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 13:19:54 pm

tonymacg wrote:

Birder, here are the two scans:

The NSW 1/- Duty Stamp:

and the detail of the embossed Calcutta Collectorate cancellation:

The Stamp office Jan 86 "Collectorate" stamp emboss is very good.There is no Queens Head. I had never seen the NSW duty either.
These are "lifers" for me.
"Lifer" is a term we frequently use in birding for the first (and often ONLY) visual sighting of a rare bird.
Tony Sir, you continue to amaze with these glimpses from your collection.

Thanks and regards.

ikanek · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 14:07:38 pm

These are nice, esp. higher values above 20 rupees.

tonymacg · **Posted:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 15:16:44 pm

Thanks, Ikanek!

Do you have any idea of their value? As I don't really need them, I'd be happy to offer some spare 50 and 100 Rupees for sale here, if there was any interest.

ikanek · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 00:37:45 am

British India revenues are only "the border" area for me. I have the latest Blatt, Heppel, Mollah handbook but not with me. I will look for it during weekend if nobody else put values here.
But I am pretty sure that there are two (or three?) versions of watermarks, so checked them carefully for spare copies. :lol:

tonymacg · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 00:54:30 am

Thanks, Jiri. As these are on piece, and I'd rather not soak them off, I may have to try to identify the likely watermark by date.

Still, if it's worth offering them, I probably should do so. There's no point in me hanging onto them if another collector could make good use of them

birder · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 01:09:57 am

Nice Example of a Four Rupee embossed Victoria :

ikanek · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 01:15:49 am

Very nice, birder. These embossed designs are pretty good, from many Indian states similar series exist but embossing is generally not so strong and scanning (and subsequent viewing) is problematic. It remembered me that I have a combination of embossed design with Congreve type.

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 01:20:56 am

birder wrote:

The NSW Stamp Duty adhesive is not visible at all. Can we get to see it?

They are really seldom seen here. Here is one I listed for sale - only document I've sighted in years of dealing -

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=28421

birder · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 01:24:37 am

Well spotted Ikanek. You are right once again.
The embossed stamp I have posted is also from a congreve stamp paper.
I would like you to confirm the year of the embossed stamp as 1867 since the "6" appears to be kinda funny.

Thanks and regards.

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 01:26:27 am

Global Administrator wrote:

birder wrote:

The NSW Stamp Duty adhesive is not visible at all. Can we get to see it?

They are really seldom seen here. Here is one I listed for sale - only document I've sighted in years of dealing -

There's a lot more of them in my archive... they're pretty common in the UK strangely enough!

http://www.ibredguy.co.uk/main.php?g2_itemId=20159

birder · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 02:34:36 am

Hi GlobalAdmin, that is a very nice example of fiscal usage. Too bad the stamp is not QV. Thanks for sharing.

NotBruce your examples of KEVII are very nice. I have a good representative sampling of these in my collection. Am now collecting QV.

Some of my Australian stamps (medium size and not gigantic) are:

Thanks and regards.

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2011 03:30:38 am

Actually, we're getting a bit off-topic here, but it has reminded me to add my South Australia revenues (postal fiscals) to the archives which I will do in a moment!

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 02:34:17 am

2 Anna Purple stamp with red Court Fee Overprint

ikanek · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 03:06:14 am

Several lettering styles exist with Court Fee overprints, downwards or upwards, red or black, with bar or without, and on several series.
I think that some of them very later overprinted in few Indian States such as Berar for use.

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 03:17:25 am

Are these stamps or cutouts? What would be a good price?

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 07:12:48 am

These aren't revenues... these are WH Smith cut-outs from newspaper wrappers which are currently another thread on the board...

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=20958&p=2182163&e=2182163

These are worth a few pounds as they're not often seen in this condition although it's a real shame they've been cut-round rather than square.

Wild guess is that you'd get £40-50 for them on eBay.

birder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2011 13:00:55 pm

Thanks NotBruce.
And here are Purple Four Anna Foreign Bill Stamps with red Court Fee overprint:

birder · **Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2011 14:28:08 pm

Purple 6 Anna with Red Court Fee overprint

birder · **Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2011 13:23:08 pm

The big brown Court Fee- I have these in twelve denominations.

birder · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2011 03:46:16 am

More large Court Fee stamps depicting Victoria:

phrag99 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2011 04:08:16 am

This thread is fantastic!

I don't collect, nor have I ever seen, these stamps but I just love the esoteric nature of postings like this.

By the way, is there any significance to some stamps having a punched hole, and others not so disfigured?

birder · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2011 04:15:35 am

The stamps were punched to prevent re-use.

The shape of the hole punch is also important. The Round punch was for court, The Triangular punch was for records and the square punch was for copies.

Thanks and regards.

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2011 04:24:11 am

How about a Hundi (or two)...

I'm sure there's much better one's than these out there!

Cheers,

Mike (Not Bruce)

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2011 04:34:38 am

Or maybe something from the Stamp Office (including one from the East India Company)...

birder · **Posted:** Tue Aug 23, 2011 02:30:35 am

Thanks for showing me the difference between Victoria (VR) stamp papers and East India Company (EIC) papers. Something new to learn on Stampboards each day.

Also, my collection of Hundis is on www.indianhundi.wordpress.com

Kindly check it out.

Thanks and regards.


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