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

31 copies are known, both on cover, obliterated with the square Jammu seal, and illustrated on Sefi and Mortimer’s Plate 34. One of the stamps Is defective. It occurred in the Dawson and Haverbeck collections, and is now in the writer’s possession. A third copy belongs to Mr. Garratt-Adams. SG O16 (Lot 10280) Three imperforate varieties are known on the same European laid paper: ½, 1, and 2 annas. The ½ and 1 anna exist on thin wove, and the 1 anna on medium wove. During 1880-1889, stamps were issued in all values on the two kinds of thin toned wove paper. A double print exists of the ½ anna value. After 1887 all values appear on creamy laid paper, and after 1889 on pure white wove. The 2, 4, and 8 anna values of the former (i.e. thin creamy laid paper) are scarce in unused condition, and rare to very rare In used condition. Only two unused sheets of the 2 anna value have been claimed to be in existence. One ¼ anna variety is known on a stout white wove paper not known used for any other issue. This stamp is rare and almost all known copies are in used condition The obliteration, however, is not readily identifiable with any known type of obliteration, which has led Garratt-Adams to suspect that the stamp might be a (Brighton) forgery. Its size, however. is correct. Printings of the unissued plate of ¼ anna are known in black on toned and pure while wove paper, and on creamy laid paper. All official stamps are scarce to rare on cover. Bibliography Sefi, A.J. and Mortimer, C. H., The Stamps of Jammu–Kashmir , London, Sefi, Pemberton & Co., Ltd, 1937 Staal, Frits, The Stamps of Jammu & Kashmir , New York, The Collectors Club, 1983 Hellrigl, Wolfgang (RDP FRPSL), Jammu and Kashmir , (a display at) The Royal Philatelic Society London, 16 November 2006 Nanjee, Iqbal H. (Compiler & Researcher), The 19th Century Indian Feudatory State Jammu & Kashmir, The Postage Stamps & Postal History 1866-1877 , Vol. One, Karachi Pakistan, Pakistan Post Foundation Press, 2013 Nanjee, Iqbal H. (Compiler & Researcher), The 19th Century Indian Feudatory State Jammu & Kashmir, The Postage Stamps & Postal History 1866-1877 , Vol. Two, Karachi Pakistan, Pakistan Post Foundation Press, 2014