India & Indian States Stamp Catalogue 5th Edition

This latest edition of the India catalogue, lists all stamps, from the first issued in 1852 up to recent mid-2017 new issues This catalogue also covers, in detail the stamps of the Convention and Feudatory States. Prices have been carefully revised to reflect the strong market for this area. The Stanley Gibbons India catalogue lists and prices the stamps of India from the earliest issues of Sind Province (1852) and the East India Company (1854-64) up to the beginning of 2017, to the level of detail familiar to users of the Part 1 British Commonwealth listings. The catalogue includes details of Indian stamps used abroad, with fully priced listings in several cases, also the stamps of Indian Expeditionary and Custodian forces overseas and the issues of the Indian Convention and Feudatory states. Major plate flaws, watermark varieties, shades, official stamps and booklets are all listed. Details of issues up to 1970 have been extracted from Stanley Gibbons 2018 Commonwealth and British Empire Stamp Catalogue. The Stanley Gibbons India Catalogue covers a number of areas of interest including: • India 1852-2017, including stamp booklets, official stamps and telegraph stamps • India Used Abroad – detailed notes for:- British East Africa, Burma, French Indian Settlements, Kuwait, Nepal, Portuguese Indian, Tibet and Trucial States • India Used Abroad – Fully Priced listings for:- Abyssinia, Aden, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Malaya (Straits Settlements), Muscat and Guadur and Zanzibar • China Expeditionary Force • Indian Expeditionary Force • Indian Custodian Forces in Korea • Indian U.N. Force in Congo• Indian U.S. Force in Gaza (Palestine) • International Commission in Indo-China • Indian National Army – detailed notes • Japanese Occupation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – detailed notes • India Convention States (including Official Stamps): 1. Chamba 2. Faridkot 3. Gwalior 4. Jind 5. Nabha 6. Patiala • India Feudatory States (including, where issued, Official Stamps and Booklets): 1. Alwar 2. Bamra 3. Barwani 4. Bhopal 5. Bhor 6. Bijawar, 7. Bundi, 8. Bussahir, 9. Charkhari 10. Cochin 11. Dhar 12. Dungarpur 13. Duttia 14. Faridkot 15. Hyderabad 16. Idar 17. Indore (Holkar) 18. Jaipur 19. Jammu and Kashmir 20. Jasdan 21. Jhalawar 22. Jind 23. Kishangarh 24. Las Bela 25. Morvi 26. Nandgaon 27. Nawanagar 28. Orchha 29. Poonch 30. Rajasthan 31. Rajpipla 32. Shahpura 33. Sirmoor 34. Soruth 35. Travancore 36. Travancore-Cochin 37. Wadhwan

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