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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Indian Princely State Kishangarh Revenue & Court fee Fiscal Stamps

Kishangarh State located lying between 25°49' and 26°59' north: and 70°40'and 75°11'east. Kishangarh was founded in 1611 by the Jodhpur prince kishan Singh, a Rajput (one of the warrior rulers of the historical region of Rajputana). It had an area of 858 miles (3 towns and 218 villages) and a population in 1931 of 85,744. The State revenue in 1910 from judicial sources, including the sale of stamps was 21,000 rupees.
Revenue and Court fee stamps :--
Type- 10,First issue (1884-85), Design : 46x43mm. Imperf, vertical laid paper, Typographed 
4 Annas
Type -11, use in1884-1885, size 53x42 mm. imperf  
1 Anna
Type-20, use in 1895-1900,size 32x33mm.
                           
2 Annas, yellow to lemon-yellow, wrong printing " Tow" for "Two"
4 Annas, red-brown 
Spelling of four in Hindi word ,"char चार " wrongly printed "chyaar च्यार " 
4 Annas, red
 
4 Annas, red-orange
1 Rupee, rose
2 Rupees, yellow, color unlisted in KM
5 Rupees, dull violet
Type-20, use in 1895-1900,size 22x23mm.imperf,
 1 Anna, color variety, bright blue and deep blue.
Type-21, use in 1899-1901,wove paper, imperf, one Anna, color variety
Type-21, use in 1899-1901,wove paper, imperf, one Anna, color variety
Type-21, use in 1899-1901,wove paper, pin perf, one Anna, color variety  
Type-21, use in 1899-1901,laid paper, imperf, one Anna, color variety 
Type-21, use in 1899-1901,laid paper, pin perf, one Anna.
Type-21, use in 1899-1901,wove and laid paper, imperf and pin perf, four Annas.
  Type-21, use in 1899-1901,wove paper, pin perf, eight Annas.
Type-21, use in 1899-1901,wove and laid paper, imperf and pin perf, one rupee. color variety
Type-21, use in 1899-1901, pin perf, two rupees
Type-21, use in 1899-1901, pin perf, error imperf between pair, five rupees.  
Type-23, use in 1899-1901,size 22x27mm.,imperf and pin perf, Laid and wove paper, value 2 Annas, color variety, deep orange to yellow.  
Type-25, use in 1913-16, imperf., one anna, color variety
Type-25, use in 1913-16, imperf., two anna, " s" after anna missing, color variety
Type-25, use in 1913-16, imperf., two annas, color variety
Type-25, use in 1913-16, imperf., four annas, color variety
Type-25, use in 1913-16, imperf., eight annas
Type-25, use in 1913-16, imperf., one rupee, color variety  
Type-27, use in 1913,size 24x30mm.,Die-cut rouletted. Typeset frame, half-tone center. Printed in sheet of 20 (4x5) on thick surfaced wove paper.   Overprinted Key Type " JOINT GOVT. RAJASTHAN " By Black & Red ink.

2 comments:

luckyacom said...

Nice work . Do you collect and where you got this info from?

abunchofkeys said...

Is it rare to find early revenue stamps on documents ?.