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The One Anna & Two Annas Postage Stamps of India 1854-55 by L. E. Dawson The third work in the series of books pertaining to the 1854-55 first issues of India. Published in 1948, the book covers, in 10 chapters, (1) One Anna Lithographed Stamps – 5 stones across 3 dies of the One Anna…
The Postage Stamps, Envelopes, Wrappers, Post Cards, and Telegraph Stamps, of British India and Ceylon Published in 1892 in an edition of 500 copies by The Philatelic Society, London (now the Royal), this is considered to be the first handbook on the postage stamps of India. This book came about from the visit to India…
Notes on the De La Rue Series of the Adhesive Postage and Telegraph Stamps of India by J. A. Tilleard This work covers the first stamps of India manufactured by the De La Rue Company from 1855 onwards. Clarifies many unanswered questions about these stamps. Appendix A gives a very useful list of each of…
Published by Robson Lowe in 1975, this is (almost) the last word on this maddening area of the first issues of India. Covering the Half, One, Two, Four, and Eight anna stamps with detailed listings of the many varieties under each value. The individual listings have their own ‘Spence numbers’ which are invariably referred to…
The Philatelic Journal of India – An early run from the golden age. An early run of 11 volumes from 1900 (Vol. IV) to 1912 (Vol. XVI) lacking years 1909 and 1911 (in latter year only 5 issues came out due to the editor’s illness) from the golden period of this journal. In its heydays,…
Edited by India’s greatest dealer and surely the greatest journalist of the modern era (post 1940), Jal Cooper. While The Philatelic Journal of India (PJI) is unbeatable in the period 1897 to say 1920s, it declined in its contents in the late 1930s / 1940s onward. Thankfully the void was filled by India’s Stamp Journal…
The Post Office of India in the Great War edited by Lieut.-Col H. A. Sams Published in 1922 by The Times Press, this is a very rare book edited by the then Director of Postal Services, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Forces and later Director General of Posts and Telegraphs for British India. Contains 23 chapters each authored…
The Post Office of India and its Story by Geoffrey Clarke Published in 1921, this is a rare book of the Indian Post Office authored by the then Director General of Posts and Telegraphs for British India. Covers all facets of the post office including its origins, regulations, services, buildings, overland route and sea post…
The author, well know for his army post office and military mail books, gives us something different here. Using old postal manuals, circulars, guides, and lists, he fleshes out information about the post office organisation and functions, postal facilities and rates, post marks including their illustrations, stamps and seals and postal receipts, acknowledgements and labels….
Published in 1948 this is the classic book on the subject of Indian Cancellations. It is perhaps the most referred to book on the subject and is the one more frequently quoted in auction descriptions, articles, etc. No collector of Indian cancellations can afford to do without this book in his library. Starting from the early pre-philatelic…
Stamps of India 2nd Ed. by Jal Cooper This is the 2nd and, in my opinion, the best edition of Cooper’s general book on Indian philately. It is also the rarest of the three editions. In the 1940s and 50s Cooper was at his peak and his writings in India’s Stamp Journal as well as…
Published in 1972, this is one of the few philatelic books written on Cochin. Very scarce and difficult to find. It covers various aspects of Anchal postal history as well as Anchal cancellations and stamps. It also contains a list of Anchal offices in Cochin and extracts from the Cochin Anchal Act. Containing 98 +…