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Scott lists this as # 3 under India - Indian Feudatory States - Orchha, but the background should not be solid lines and the color should be carmine. At the bottom of the listing it has: "Essays similar to Nos 2-5 are in different colors."
OK, so maybe it's an essay. Then I checked SG Commonwealth and Empire catalog.
Stanley Gibbons has a similar stamp under India - Indian Feudatory States - Orchha # 5, but the background lines are supposed to be "short horizontal lines" and the color is supposed to be scarlet, Indian red, or carmine.
At the top of the listing is this: "A set of fours stamps, 1/2 a. red, 1 a. violet, 2 a. yellow, and 4 a. deep blue-green, in a design similar ... was prepared in 1897 with State authority but not put into use. These exist both imperforate and pin perforated."
I'm guessing this is one of the set of four described by SG. So it isn't an essay or a reprint but a special printing intended for philatelic use only.
Does that seem accurate?
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CORRECTION: If this is part of that 1897 printing, it isn't a reprint or special printing because that was BEFORE any actual stamps were released. So this is part of that 1897 printing OR it's maybe a later forgery? I didn't see it in Serrane or Earee's Album Weeds.
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"I'm guessing this is one of the set of four described by SG. So it isn't an essay or a reprint but a special printing intended for philatelic use only.
Does that seem accurate?"
Yes, that seems more or less accurate. Intended for use as postage but rejected by the State (Orchha).
SG says this:
Scott calls them essays. Yours is one of the four - not a later forgery. Fairly common
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Thank you, Jack.
I wanted to use it in a section of stamps that were officially produced by not actually released for some reason or another, and this looks like a good example!
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Re: Orchha 1897 Issue
The India Post #45 (Jul-Sep 1975) has this say about this issue:
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That last bit did it for me:
"In the case of the 1a traces of the figure "1/2" can be seen under the "1" in the top left and bottom right corners ..."
Sure enough, you can easily see that in the top left and bottom right corners.
Thanks for the additional info!
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Here is a sheet of Orcha Scott#2.
Your stamp bears no resemblence to the original design. I would guess your stamp is an attempt at a reproduction or facsimilie.
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I have a question about this stamp:
Scott lists this as # 3 under India - Indian Feudatory States - Orchha, but the background should not be solid lines and the color should be carmine. At the bottom of the listing it has: "Essays similar to Nos 2-5 are in different colors."
OK, so maybe it's an essay. Then I checked SG Commonwealth and Empire catalog.
Stanley Gibbons has a similar stamp under India - Indian Feudatory States - Orchha # 5, but the background lines are supposed to be "short horizontal lines" and the color is supposed to be scarlet, Indian red, or carmine.
At the top of the listing is this: "A set of fours stamps, 1/2 a. red, 1 a. violet, 2 a. yellow, and 4 a. deep blue-green, in a design similar ... was prepared in 1897 with State authority but not put into use. These exist both imperforate and pin perforated."
I'm guessing this is one of the set of four described by SG. So it isn't an essay or a reprint but a special printing intended for philatelic use only.
Does that seem accurate?
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CORRECTION: If this is part of that 1897 printing, it isn't a reprint or special printing because that was BEFORE any actual stamps were released. So this is part of that 1897 printing OR it's maybe a later forgery? I didn't see it in Serrane or Earee's Album Weeds.
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"I'm guessing this is one of the set of four described by SG. So it isn't an essay or a reprint but a special printing intended for philatelic use only.
Does that seem accurate?"
Yes, that seems more or less accurate. Intended for use as postage but rejected by the State (Orchha).
SG says this:
Scott calls them essays. Yours is one of the four - not a later forgery. Fairly common
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Thank you, Jack.
I wanted to use it in a section of stamps that were officially produced by not actually released for some reason or another, and this looks like a good example!
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Re: Orchha 1897 Issue
The India Post #45 (Jul-Sep 1975) has this say about this issue:
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That last bit did it for me:
"In the case of the 1a traces of the figure "1/2" can be seen under the "1" in the top left and bottom right corners ..."
Sure enough, you can easily see that in the top left and bottom right corners.
Thanks for the additional info!
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Here is a sheet of Orcha Scott#2.
Your stamp bears no resemblence to the original design. I would guess your stamp is an attempt at a reproduction or facsimilie.
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