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(RCSD) India~ephemera ID.
I found these at the bottom of a phossick box I won at auction. There are about 500 dated from 1918 to 1939 http://cjoint.com/data/iteKrUNIeN.htm These are letterheads, why they are retained beats me, but I'd like to know the state to which the arms belongs to, any idea? http://cjoint.com/data/itePurrqsi.htm Thanks |
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On Aug 18, 10:42 pm, Rod wrote:
I found these at the bottom of a phossick box I won at auction. There are about 500 dated from 1918 to 1939http://cjoint.com/data/iteKrUNIeN.htm These are letterheads, why they are retained beats me, but I'd like to know the state to which the arms belongs to, any idea?http://cjoint.com/data/itePurrqsi.htm Thanks These are not letterheads. They are "stamped papers" which are purchased by one of the parties to a legal transaction (eg property sale). The paper contains a revenue stamp imprint which covers the stamp tax on that transaction. The legal document is then written on the stamped paper. A stamped paper's validity expires in six months if you do not use it. These are traditionally collected as completed documents and not as cut out stamps. The Stamped Paper was a sheet of paper on which the "stamp" was printed or embossed. These stamped papers are fascinating items to collect - not only for the "Stamp" but also for the details of the document written on them - a legal agreement, a court action or some fascinating aspect of the lives of the people involved. Most of these court documents are written in Urdu or Hindi script - so there is much interesting reading for you if you can read and understand either of these languages. The Stamped Papers are large and impressive documents to have in your collection, and the Court Fee stamps are also large : often 10 cm by 5 cm. Much larger than normal postage stamps and impressive items in a collection. While executing any document outside India meant for use in that country Indian stamps are not used. When instruments are executed outside India, they can be stamped by payment of appropriate stamp duty later in India by cash. For example, if a power of attorney is signed in New York before a Notary on a plain paper, the same can be presented before the concerned registering officer in India by the agent for authentication. The registrar will collect the stamp duty payable in India by cash and authenticate the deed. It should be done within three months after it is first received in India. What happens with unused stamp papers? Such stamp papers can be submitted to the Collector of Stamps for refund. There will not be full refund. About10 per cent will be deducted. Bangladesh Specimen stamped paper : http://friends.peoria.lib.il.us/comm...opREVpAPER.jpg India - Alwar State http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/alwar.gif India - Bundi state http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/bundi.gif India - Indargarh state http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/indarg.gif India - Udaipur state (Chitrakot) http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/udaipur.gif THE INDIAN STAMP ACT, 1899 http://punjabrevenue.nic.in/indian_stamp1.htm#the Blair |
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(RCSD) India~ephemera ID.
On Aug 19, 2:34 pm, "Blair (TC)" wrote:
These are not letterheads. They are "stamped papers" Thanks Blair, on some of the early stamps, the paper is fascinatingly primitive. I noticed some "splodges" on some of the documents which turned out to be thumbprints, there is one on your example of Indargarh state paper. I can assume via the arms, that these are Bundi state papers. |
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(RCSD) India~ephemera ID.
On Aug 19, 12:42 pm, Rod wrote:
I found these at the bottom of a phossick box I won at auction. There are about 500 dated from 1918 to 1939http://cjoint.com/data/iteKrUNIeN.htm These are letterheads, why they are retained beats me, but I'd like to know the state to which the arms belongs to, any idea?http://cjoint.com/data/itePurrqsi.htm Thanks Purely on the basis of the languages used, the first item is probably from Hyderabad. The arms on the second look like those of Bundi, but then, many of the State arms look rather similar. Here is the business part of a stamped paper from the Indian state of Barwani: http://cjoint.com/?itk3ujEomb And here are Barwani Court Fee and Writing Fee stamps used on a document: http://cjoint.com/?itlfmKsDEc Tony Mac Gillycuddy |
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(RCSD) India~ephemera ID.
"Blair (TC)" wrote in message s.com... | These are not letterheads. They are "stamped papers" | which are purchased by one of the parties to a legal | transaction (eg property sale). The paper contains a | revenue stamp imprint which covers the stamp tax | on that transaction. As a historical note, these are the type of Stamp Act 'stamps' which help precipitate the American Revolution (or Rebellion, from the British view). Of course, our own government later decided that revenue stamps on documents were not such a bad idea after all. I very much enjoyed your informative answer. tjr |
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