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

30 ½ anna – The shades are endless, occur on most of the wove papers, and appear to have little chronological significance with the exception of orange which belongs to 1890-1892, vermilion on pure white wove which belongs to 1890-1891, and rose which belongs to 1892. The shades of red and orange have been referred to by numerous colour terms—pale red, brownish red, venetian red, orange red, and so on. The varieties on creamy laid paper are orange-red. Less common dull grayish blue and scarce bright blue varieties—the latter on pure white wove—are rare used and may be a carryover from the standard blue of Srinagar, possibly made in response to dealers’ orders, but available for postage, like the Jammu special printings. 1 anna – The shades of green of the 1 anna are even more bewildering in their variety. Sefi and Mortimer may be quoted here: “It would be hardly any exaggeration to say that it is scarcely possible to find two stamps (apart from unused blocks or sheets) which could be matched exactly in any particular shade of colour.” The earlier pigments were of local manufacture and included blue-greens and gray-greens on thin tonedwove papers. In one of the blue-green printings the blue was highly fugitive, and faded into a dingy yellow. The European pigments used for the later printings were stable. They include gray-green and greenish black on toned wove, and yellow green, olive green. and bright green on pure white wove. The variety on creamy laid paper is in grayish green and Is scarce –SG166. It is sometimes found with obliterations In the merchant’s script, which appear in be “stop-the-thief” marks. 2 annas – These stamps were printed in red on semi-pelure coloured wove papers, first fine and later also coarse. The colours of the papers are greenish yellow, yellow green, green, and yellow. The 2 annas stamps are often used for prepayment of a registration fee, and also, sometimes in pairs or blocks, for parcel post. It should be mentioned here that forgeries of the 2 anna stamps are rather common: they are slightly smaller in size than the genuine varieties and can generally be detected without great difficulty. 4 annas – This value exists on all three varieties of thin wove paper. The colour include bright and dull yellow green, olive green, deep green, and sage green. The stamps were used primarily for prepayment of the registration fee, but were also used for parcel post. 8 annas – Some unusual varieties exist of this value. Apart from shades of blue such as pale blue, deep blue, and bright blue on all three kinds of thin wove paper, there is a distinct “slate-lilac” (Stanley Gibbons) or “gray- violet” (Scott) hue on thin toned wove, and an indigo blue on a thick wove paper not used for any other variety. Two more varieties deserve special mention: a grayish blue water colour printing on thin wove paper which is scarce (SG 168a), and a similar water colour on thin laid paper which is rare (SG 168). All the 8 anna stamps were used for parcel post and occasionally on large or heavy registered envelopes. From 1887 to 1894 the so-called Maharaja Partap Singh issues on thin creamy laid paper, imperforate, were issued intermittently. The 1 / 8 anna was issued in yellow, the ¼ anna in brown, the ½ anna in brown-red in January 1878 and later in orange-red, the 1 anna in grey green and the 8 annas in blue watercolour. Also, as described above, the 8 annas was printed in blue watercolour on wove paper. SG O1 to O18 (¼ anna to 8 annas various laid and thin wove papers, imperforate and all values from ¼ anna to 8 annas in black and printed from the same plates as the New Rectangulars) SG O2 (Lot 10254) SG O4 (Lot 10259) SG O6a (Lot 10266) Official stamps were issued only during the new rectangular period, between 1879 and 1894. They were printed in black from the same plates as the other new rectangular issues, excluding the 1 / 8 anna, which could not be used by officials as they were always residents. The official stamps exist on most of the papers on which the other new rectangulars were printed. Corresponding to the early issues of the new rectangulars (1878-1881) there exists, first of all, one perforate variety, which Is extremely rare: a ½ anna black on European white laid paper with perforation gauge 10-12. Two Jammu & Kashmir Official Stamps