Award-winning exhibitor and an expert on Indian philately, Sandeep Jaiswal shares postage stamps, essays, postal stationery, covers, trial color proofs, progressive die proofs, telegraph stamps, and more in this presentation to the Chicago Philatelic Society.
His items feature currencies such as the anna, rupee, pice, and paisa. The convention and feudatory states he highlights are: Bahawalpur, Bamra, Barwani, Bhopal, Bundi, Charkhari, Cochin, Dhar, Dungarpur, Duttia, Faridkot, Gwalior, Jaipur, Jammu and Kashmir, Jasdar, Jind, Kishangarh, Kotah, Nawanagar, Orcha, Patiala, Poonch, Rajastan, Rajkot, Rajpeepla, Shahpura, Sirmoor, Soruth, Tonk and Travancore Cochin. Printers cited include De La Rue and Perkins Bacon. At the end, Jaiswal provides some history of collecting Indian stamps, including when catalogs added listings. Be sure to watch this video to see some rare and scarce items!
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