The listing, 1906 Indore (India) Overprint Mint, GIN Available has ended.
What a WONDERFUL stamp! Take a look at the image!
Very nice graphics, and notice no marks, cancels, very nice clean front side! I love overprints and I have a couple of these so here for auction is one, Indore with SERVICE overprint,f 1904 - 06. I don't know much about this stamp if anyone does, please feel free to leave a comment.
GET IT NOW (GIN) and you will win instantly for 6,500 credits before someone else does!
I found this online:
Indore State was one of the patchwork of puppet monarchies that made up much of British colonial India, and that Holkar was the name of its ruling dynasty. Thus, Indore State and Holkar State were perhaps more or less synonymous? Part of modern Madhya Pradesh, anyway, smack in the middle of the country.
And the "SERVICE" overprint was apparently common South Asian practice for stamps that would be used in guvment work, presumably in an attempt to prevent the petty use of postage bought on the public anna for personal use or, say, the massive resale for personal profit of boxes and boxes of postage bought on the public anna.
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