Sunday, July 11, 2010

Travancore Postal stamps[known as Travancore state anchal stamps] {AND COCHIN STAMPS}



Travancore was a feudatory state of India and issued its first stamps in 1888. The stamps were only good for postage in that state. Travancore stamps became obsolete in 1949. An example of a Travancore stamp is as follows:
TRAVANCORE ANCHEL


Cochin and Travancore stamps 1940's




STAMP PAPER OF COCHIN STATE(Stamp paper of value 32 puttans.)


Sir Sri Rajarshi Rama Varma I, Raja of Cochin, 1895-1914


Sir Sri Rama Varma II, RajaMaharaja of Cochin, 1914-1932

Sir Sri Kerala Varma II, Maharaja of Cochin 1941-43

Sir Sri Ravi Varma Kunjappan Thampuran, Maharaja of Cochin, 1943-46

Travancore Stamp Paper 1920

Travancore Copying paper of value 3 1/2 chuckram
Travancore- Cochin non judicial paper of value 45 rupees[AFTER TRAVANCORE AND COCHIN STATES JOINED INTO ONE]
Image of a Travancore Anchel stamp
Travancore Anchel
(A former princely Indian State)
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USTC is short for the United State of Travancore and Cochin which was formed in 1949 from the two states of Cochin and Travancore in southern India.

In 1950 its name changed to State of Travancore-Cochin. It's now part of the state of Kerala.

When India gained independence in 1947, the new government started the long process of winding up the old States. The first step was to merge the old States into larger geographical unions. The two States in Southwest India were linguistically separate, and so were grouped together in 1949 as the USTC, and the next year as the State of Travancore-Cochin. These days it forms the State of Kerala, with some relatively minor adjustments of borders, to render the State more linguistically homogeneous.

The union was philatelically complicated because both States had their own stamps, but the larger Travancore had maintained a separate currency. At union, Travancore switched to Indian currency, which required the overprinting of its stamps in Indian currency equivalents:
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this Travancore Anchel stamp issued on 1939 in commemoration of Travancore King's 27th birthday.


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TRAVANCORE STATE STAMPS OF VARIOUS DENOMINATION

Post Card  from Travancore Anchal from the Period of Maharaja Rama Varma X . The deomination is  Five Cash.
16 Cash = 1 Chuckram , 28 Chuckram = 1 Rupee
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 COCHIN & TRAVANCORE STAMPS
The first (1892) issues of Cochin, like just about all of Cochin, are quite easy to find:

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These were followed by new types in 1898
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Then followed the thoroughly mainstream era of the Maharaja heads types:
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 15, 2010 at 3:53 AM

    I am also collecting Ccohin, Travancore and TC stamps. Since there is some thing common between us, if I have your id we could exchange.

    Thomas Paul

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  2. Bamr Mann bombaymann@gmail.comDecember 5, 2010 at 2:34 AM

    i have stamps old mainly from my child hood; 50 years and older stamps up to 150 years old; in thousands . my son wants it to be kept as a collection /may be he wants sell it later

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