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French Settlements in India
I have these two stamps
http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) http://www.heindorffhus.dk |
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amesh (Mette) wrote:
I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) French India Scot #'s 212 and 213 (minimum value)issued in 1948. A cache was 1/192 of a rupee. Similar to a pie in British India. From the 18th century until 1949-54 (when they joined the Indian Republic), there were some small settlements in India which belonged to France. -- To e-mail me get rid of the cats and dogs. |
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"AK47" skrev i en meddelelse
... amesh (Mette) wrote: I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) French India Scot #'s 212 and 213 (minimum value)issued in 1948. A cache was 1/192 of a rupee. Similar to a pie in British India. From the 18th century until 1949-54 (when they joined the Indian Republic), there were some small settlements in India which belonged to France. Thanks -- that's a good beginning :-) -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) http://www.heindorffhus.dk |
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Mette, here is some additional information on French India. There were five
towns (settlements): Chandernagore, near Calcutta (now Kolkata); Mahé, on the Arabian Sea, SW India; Karikal, Pondichéry and Yanaon, all on the Bay of Bengal (SE India). In 1940, the Vichy regime issued stamps for these settlements, but they were never sent there, as they had joined the Free French. Tony From: "amesh (Mette)" Subject: French Settlements in India Date: Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:06 PM "AK47" skrev i en meddelelse ... amesh (Mette) wrote: I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) French India Scot #'s 212 and 213 (minimum value)issued in 1948. A cache was 1/192 of a rupee. Similar to a pie in British India. From the 18th century until 1949-54 (when they joined the Indian Republic), there were some small settlements in India which belonged to France. Thanks -- that's a good beginning :-) -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) http://www.heindorffhus.dk ery and Yanaon, on the Bay of Bengal, SE India. "amesh (Mette)" wrote in message ... "AK47" skrev i en meddelelse ... amesh (Mette) wrote: I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) French India Scot #'s 212 and 213 (minimum value)issued in 1948. A cache was 1/192 of a rupee. Similar to a pie in British India. From the 18th century until 1949-54 (when they joined the Indian Republic), there were some small settlements in India which belonged to France. Thanks -- that's a good beginning :-) -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) http://www.heindorffhus.dk |
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"amesh \(Mette\)" wrote in message ...
I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) First two of a set of 21, SG 259-279 of 1948. Each stamp has one of 7 different characters in the cent 1) Apsara (yours) 2) Dvarabalagar standing erect 3) Vishnu 4) Brahmin idol 5) Dvarabalagar with leg raised 6) Temple Guardian 7) One of the Tigoupalagar No significant CV until you get into the franc denominations, when a few GBP. Chris |
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"A.E. Gelat" skrev i en meddelelse
... Mette, here is some additional information on French India. There were five towns (settlements): Chandernagore, near Calcutta (now Kolkata); Mahé, on the Arabian Sea, SW India; Karikal, Pondichéry and Yanaon, all on the Bay of Bengal (SE India). In 1940, the Vichy regime issued stamps for these settlements, but they were never sent there, as they had joined the Free French. Thanks Tony, very helpful :-) Mette Tony From: "amesh (Mette)" Subject: French Settlements in India Date: Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:06 PM "AK47" skrev i en meddelelse ... amesh (Mette) wrote: I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) French India Scot #'s 212 and 213 (minimum value)issued in 1948. A cache was 1/192 of a rupee. Similar to a pie in British India. From the 18th century until 1949-54 (when they joined the Indian Republic), there were some small settlements in India which belonged to France. Thanks -- that's a good beginning :-) -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) http://www.heindorffhus.dk ery and Yanaon, on the Bay of Bengal, SE India. "amesh (Mette)" wrote in message ... "AK47" skrev i en meddelelse ... amesh (Mette) wrote: I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) French India Scot #'s 212 and 213 (minimum value)issued in 1948. A cache was 1/192 of a rupee. Similar to a pie in British India. From the 18th century until 1949-54 (when they joined the Indian Republic), there were some small settlements in India which belonged to France. Thanks -- that's a good beginning :-) -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) http://www.heindorffhus.dk |
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"Chris Doran" skrev i en meddelelse
om... "amesh \(Mette\)" wrote in message ... I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) First two of a set of 21, SG 259-279 of 1948. Each stamp has one of 7 different characters in the cent 1) Apsara (yours) 2) Dvarabalagar standing erect 3) Vishnu 4) Brahmin idol 5) Dvarabalagar with leg raised 6) Temple Guardian 7) One of the Tigoupalagar No significant CV until you get into the franc denominations, when a few GBP. Thanks Chris. I never dealt much with Asian stamps, so all this is totally new to me. With this latest acquisition I will have enough to keep me occupied for the next few months :-) -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) http://www.heindorffhus.dk |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:53:35 +0200, "amesh \(Mette\)"
wrote: I have these two stamps http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/shoebox-FranceIndia.jpg that I am unable to identify. Thanks in advance for any help and info :-) French India When Frederick II of Prussia siezed Silesia in 1740, France sided with him, the British with Austria. As a result of this, The War of Austrian Succession, the British decided that France's power in India was too great to be left alone. After the French quickly cornered the English in a naval battle, a treaty was signed trading Madras for Cape Breton Island in North America. Relations between the British and French worsened as each became mired in local Indian politics. After the nizam, a major Mughal noble and power-broker, died, the French took advantage of this time to pick sides in a dispute over who would be Karnatic nawab (governor). (Karnataka was a dependancy of the nizam. The nizam chose a nawab in 1743, but rivals for the nawab-ate weren't satisfied. Is this clear? Good.) The French chose Chanda Sahib for nawab and Salabat Jang for nizam. The British, not to be outdone, responded by saying that Muhammad Ali (the Indian, not the boxer) should be nawab. The nawab-ship wasn't really all that important, but it made a good excuse for a war. The British/Muhammad Ali, led by Robert Clive, gained control of Arcot (the capital of Karnataka) in 1751, and the French/Chandra Sahib were forced to surrended in 1752. Peace and tranquility reigned for . . . four years. Then, the Seven Years' War began in Europe in 1756, and the British and French in India were at it again. The British, with their naval superiority, won victories in the Bengal, at Madras, at Ponicherry, and at Wandiwash. The French surrendered for the second time in 1761. Thus, the French were permitted, by various treaties, to retain only tiny settlements: Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahe, Pondicherry, Yanam Chandernagore was a really tiny (3 sq.miles) enclave some 20 miles north of Calcutta. It was owned by the French between 1816 and 1950 when a referendum returned it to India. http://www.aurobindo.ru/images/sa/18...nagore_map.gif Pondicherry was the capital of the French possessions and occupied an area of 113 square miles. It had been lost by the French during the Napoleonic wars but was handed back to them in 1816 and stayed French until it was returned to India after independence. http://www.aurobindo.ru/images/sa/1910-1950/pond_1.gif Karikal (Karaikal), near Pondicherry, was a small French settlement on the S.E. coast in the Tanjore district. It is now a beach resort. http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/india/beachresorts.jpg Mahe (S.E. (Malabar) Coast) http://www.pondy.com/images/mahe/directionmap/mahe2.gif and Yenam, near Pondicherry The smallest census district in India is Yenam in Pondicherry with a population of 31,362 only. http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/i...indiaclose.gif Some more stamp links of interest. French India (French Republic) 1892 - 1940 http://www.kalnieciai.lt/zenius/asia...ench/india.jpg French India (French Republic) French Republic stamps overprint 1892 - 1940 http://www.kalnieciai.lt/zenius/asia.../overprint.jpg French India (French State) 1940 - 1944 http://www.kalnieciai.lt/zenius/asia...ench/state.jpg French India (Free French Administration) 1941 - 1944 http://www.kalnieciai.lt/zenius/asia...ench/libre.jpg French India (IV French Republic) 1947 - 1954 11 01 http://www.kalnieciai.lt/zenius/asia...ch/1947-54.jpg French India - perfins (BJC) http://www.kalnieciai.lt/zenius/asia...french/BJC.jpg Blair |
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:50:17 -0500, "A.E. Gelat"
wrote: Blair, that was an excellent example of stamp collecting also teaching us history. But I take exception to your listing of the 1940-1944 French State issue (Petain). There was no way for these stamps to have reached India, and even if they had, they would not have been issued, since the five settlements had opted for de Gaulle. The British would not have allowed Petain to control them. They must be classified as "prepared for use but not issued for postal use". Tony Tony: I agree completely, , but included them for the information of collectors who may have some of these items. Blair |
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