The ½a
black
watercolor from the first Kashmir plate. Cover dated 24
assūj
1923
~ 9 October
1866. Catalogues assign the advent of these stamps to spring of 1867.
Collecting Kashmir
Introduction
Overview:
First Contact
What’s New
Printing Implements
Inscriptions
Lay of the Land:
Srinagar
Routes
Railroad
Destinations
Karakoram
Deciphering:
Indo-Persian Script
Dogri-Takri Scripts
Javab Covers
Calendar Conversions:
Muslim-to-AD
Hindu-to-AD
Masson Dating
The Stamps
Old Jammu:
½a Circular
1a Circular
4a Circular
Plate
Europaper
Old Kashmir:
½a Die
First Plate
Visitors’ Plate
4a Die
8a Die
New Rectangulars:
½a
1a
2a
4a+8a
¼a
⅛a
Plate-States
Other Postal:
Franking
The Zaruri
Iron-Mine
Cards
Victorias
Non-Postal:
Circulars
Jammu Plate
Old Kashmir
Twelve-Plate
Postal Markings
Chronology:
1866-76
1877-80
1881-90
1891-94
Native Markings
British Markings:
British Kashmir
British Ladakh
Sialkot
Amritsar
More Markings:
Registration
Postage Due
Curiosities
Staal-Sharmas
The Bard Papers:
Map
State Offices
British Offices
Exchange Offices
Miscellany
Production:
Papers
Controls
Perforation
Anomalies
Oilcolor-Twins
Forgery:
Watercolors
Missing-Dies
Brightons
Fakery
Perpetration
Other Topics:
Simons’ Case
Badger’s Quiz
Catalogue Notes
Rarities
Romance:
Postal Regulations
Reference
Articles:
Subject
Author
Journal
Year
Books
Auctions
Boggs
Raina
Book Republication:
Masson I & II
Séfi & Mortimer
Dawson & Smythies
Checklists:
Watercolors
Transitionals
New Rectangulars
Reprints
External Links:
eBay
eSites
ePlatts
Carol A. von der Lin, updated January 2012.