377th Auction

1899-1900 ½a green with manuscript "O K D S" (On Kishangarh State Department) in red. The manuscript "OKDS" were the forerunners to Official stamps that were overprinted "ON K D S". Stamp on piece but defective as are all the few known examples. Extremely rare as only a handful such examples have been recorded.

1899-1900 ½a green with error, stamp printed double. While some of the other denominations from this issue have been recorded with double print, this one is unrecorded.

1899-1900 ½a light blue with error, stamp printed double. While some of the other denominations from this issue have been recorded with double print, this one is unrecorded.

1899-1900  1a pink used on piece. ISES certificate (SG value £500)

1899-1900,  4 annas chocolate vertical strip of four imperf with error, 3rd stamp printed double. While other denominations are recorded printed double, the 4 annas is not.

1899-1900  2R brown-red imperf (SG value £200)

1899-1900  2 rupees brown-red imperf on laid paper with variety stamps tête-bêche.

1900,  1/4 anna yellow-green pin-perf (SG value £600)

1899-1901  ¼a pin-perf with error, green instead of yellow-green.

1899-1900  1/4 a rose-pink a complete sheet of 168 including 12 tête-bêche pairs

1899,  1 anna pink (SG value £200)

1913  1 rupee lilac handstamped "ON K D S". Brandon certificate (SG value £700)

1899,  5 rupee magenta instead of mauve pin-perf block of four

1899,  5 rupees manuve block of 6 (SG value £210)

1901  1 rupee dull green on toned wove paper, complete sheet of 23 less one stamp (Pos. R 5/4) which was always removed immediately after printing since that the cliché was damaged. A rare complete sheet (SG value £322)

1903  2a two complete sheets of 10 in two distinct shades of yellow (listed color) and yellow-orange (SG value £100)

1906,  1 anna perf. 13.5 color trial in reddish-brown block of four 

1904-10 1a Plate Proof in brown on thick card imperf block of nine.

1904-10 Mater 2a reforated Color Trials in five different colors on gummed paper mint never hinged with original gum.

1904-10  Proof of the 2a in blue (color of the 1 anna) imperf strip of three on the same paper as the issued stamps.

1904-10  2a olive-yellow perf 13½ top left corner marginal block of four Color Trial mint never hinged with original gum.

1904-10  1R green left marginal block of eight with perf 13 instead of 12½, toned gum

1904-10  2R olive-yellow perf 12½ (SG value £325)

1904-10  5R purple-brown horizontal pair (SG value £500)

1912  2a lilac on thick white chalk-surfaced paper inscribed "TWO ANNA" with thin and tear. ISES certificate (SG value £1200)

A group of five complete sheets of 10 or 20 

1913  1/4a pale blue complete sheet of 20 with error stamps imperf with additional error, "OUARTER" for "QUARTER" in QUARTER, "KISHANGAHR" instead of "KISHANGARH" and character in Devnagri denomination missing (SG value £195)

1913  Proof of the ¼a in blue on pink paper.

Blue card printed by Diamond Soap Works, the printers of postage & revenue stamps of Kishangarh, with 1913-16 1/4 anna, 1/2 anna, 1 anna & 2 annas stamps affixed on reverse as a sample of their work. The card with a printed message to the ruler of Kishangarh soliciting the business of printing the State's Revenue Stamp papers.

1913  1/4a blue two complete sheets of 20 from two different setting, the 1st with two blocks from the early setting of 10 with white gutter margin in between and the 2nd sheet from the later Setting of 20

1913-16  1a red imperf pair (SG value £275)

1913-16  1R mauve imperf pair with error stamps printed double. This is not listed in SG and possibly the only surviving pair from the unique imperforate sheet that was printed double. The imperf pair catalogues £450. ISES certificate

1913,  2 rupees deep green left marginal block of four (SG value £720)

1913-16 Plate Proof of the 5R in black on cream wove paper, right marginal horizontal pair, right stamp with pin-hole.

1928  1/2 anna three complete sheets of 10 in green, yellow-green and deep green; the deep-green with flaw in pos. 1 which is absent in the other two sheets.

1928-36  ½a deep green vertical pair with error, imperf between pair (SG value £375)