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This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Scinde Dawk of 1852, the first postage stamp of India is a round red sealing wafer. India has a long and varied postal history and has produced a ...
1852 red sealing wafer Scinde Dawk, Asia's first adhesive stamp. The use of the Scinde Dawk adhesive stamps to signify the prepayment of postage began on 1 July 1852 in the Scinde/Sindh district, [13] as part of a comprehensive reform of the district's postal system.
Like all convention states, Gwalior used British India postage stamps overprinted at first at the Government of India Central Printing Press, Calcutta till 1926 and later at the Security Press in Nashik. [9] Like the stamps of the other states, Gwalior's stamp issues have a rich collection of errors and varieties.
Scinde Dawk (Sindhi: سندي ڊاڪ) was a postal system of runners that served the Indus Valley of Sindh, an area of present-day Pakistan.The term also refers to the first adhesive postage stamps in Asia, [1] the forerunners of the adhesive stamps used throughout India, Burma, the Straits Settlements and other areas controlled by the British East India Company. [2]
Phila India 2008 Guide book (1800-2007). Anon. (2008). List of stamps (Year 1852 to 2007). Chief Postmaster General, Maharashtra Circle, Mumbai 400001. Indian Post Stamp Catalogue 1947 - 2011; India Post Stamps Listing "Postage Stamps". Web portal. Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. 2015
The first known piece of mail sent using a prepaid stamp — “one of the greatest leaps forward in human communication” — could fetch between $1.5 million and $2.5 million when it comes up ...
Nevertheless, there was a shortage of stamps to meet the new rates. Provisional six-anna stamps were improvised by cutting the top and bottom from a current foreign-bill revenue stamp and overprinting "Postage". India was the first country in the Commonwealth to issue airmail stamps. [27]
A feudatory state in Rajputana, northern India. Issued five stamps with values of 1 ⁄ 4 or 1 anna. The last issue was released in 1901 and the stamps became obsolete towards the end of 1902. [4] Bamra: 1888 1894 A feudatory state in the Central Provinces. Issued forty stamps with values ranging from 1 ⁄ 4 anna to 1 rupee. The last issue was ...