Indian Princely States - Jammu & Kashmir A Selection from the Dan Walker Collection June 12, 2018

28 SG 117b to 130 (¼ anna to 8 annas wove paper of various thicknesses, imperforate and in red printers ink) SG 126a (Lot 10203) Between July 1878 and March 1881, numerous printings of all denominations in red were made in Jammu. All printings are from State I of the respective plates. The papers used range from thin (all values from ¼ anna to 8 annas), medium (¼, ½, 1 and 2 annas) or thick (½, 1 and 2 annas and the most difficult to find) wove papers. With these printings, red became the standard colour for both Provinces. SG 130a (¼ anna ultramarine watercolour provisional printing on thin bâtonné paper, imperforate) SG 130a (Lot 10208) The stamp is exceptional in various respects. It is a ¼ anna printed on thin laid bâtonné paper in water colour, a pigment that was no longer in general use (though we found it on one slate variety of 1878-1879). The stamp was used from Kashmir only during May, June, and July of 1880. It is rare used and extremely rare unused. The only respect in which it is not exceptional is that it is printed in the standard blue that Srinagar had used for its provisionals from 1878. A solution to the mystery of this stamp was proposed by H. Garratt-Adams in the Philatelic Journal of India of 1947 (vol. 51, pp. 48-51). The ¼ anna issued in Jammu in red between 1878 and 1880 was needed only for the half rate privilege accorded to nonresidents In Kashmir. Since this value was nor required at Jammu, where foreigners did not go, the plate was sent to Srinagar, where it was printed with a pigment and on paper that happened to be locally available; the ultramarine water colour that had been used for the ½ anna Kashmir old rectangular, and a thin laid bâtonné that was available in the market. In April 1880 postcards were introduced which also required a ¼ anna stamp. The ¼ anna plate was therefore ordered back to Jammu. The plate must have taken some time to return, since ¼ anna printings in red on thin wove paper are found used in both provinces only from July 1880. The latest known use of the ¼ anna ultramarine water colour Is in fact July 13, 1880, which further supports this theory. SG 131 to 136 (¼ anna to 8 annas wove paper of various thicknesses, imperforate and in orange printers ink) AroundApril 1881, the printing plates of all denominationswere sent fromJammu toSrinagar. There, newprintings were made in orange, whereby the re-bedding of the plates required the fixing of additional screws through the plate borders, giving rise to State II of all plates. Orange now became the standard colours for both Provinces. All values from ¼ to 8 annas are printed in orange.