The Overprint Types

Within each group the overprints are listed in descending order of the length of the inscription, regardless of any frame or final stop. The dimensions of the frame, if present, are also given. In the cases of text with both upper and lower case letters, the height of the upper case letter(s) is given first, followed by the height of the lower case letters in parentheses. In English inscriptions ascenders and descenders are ignored; thus the measurement of "Rajasthan" would indicate the height of the "R" followed by the height (in parentheses) of the "a", "s" or "n", not the "j", "t" or "h". In Hindi inscriptions the height is that of the longest letter, which may not be the same letter in different overprints. Some rounding up or down has been done. As full stops (periods) are often difficult to see, all measurements exclude full stops even when they are clear. They are, however, useful for identification of overprint types, and have been mentioned in passing. In the case of handstamps some degree of distortion takes place, depending on the severity of the strike, the surface it is on and how long it has been in use. It is also possible that some handstamps were made up from individual letters which may shift with time and account for small discrepancies in length between different samples of the same overprint. Measurements should therefore be used only as an approximate guide. In some cases the measurement of the handstamped examples may vary by up to 1 mm because of the spread of the ink into the paper.

The range of colours recorded for each overprint is indicated below, but for each stamp or stamped paper type only the confirmed colours are shown. If no colour has yet been confirmed, black or violet have been entered as default values for typographed and handstamped overprints respectively. I have not attempted to be exact about the shade of ink used for handstamps. "Violet" is not the violet of the philatelic colour charts, but represents various shades between red and blue.

All overprints are handstamped unless "typographed" is indicated. For convenience of reference the overprints in English [E] are listed together, followed by the overprints in Hindi [H]. Each group is subdivided into overprints consisting only of text (usually the single word "Rajasthan") [EA, HA] and overprints enclosed on two or four sides by a "frame" (usually rectangular but sometimes circular, oval, key-shaped or consisting of parentheses). The inscriptions, in English or Hindi (Devanagari) script are assigned a lower case letter as follows:

a	Rajasthan		g	Raj
b	Pagasthan		h	RS
c	Ragisthan		i	RJ
d	Rajasthan State		j	Sanyukt Rajasthan Sarkar
e	Rajasthan Rajya		k	Sa Ra Sarkar
f	Rajasthan Sarkar

Below each overprint type is listed the types of fiscal adhesive stamp and stamped paper on which it has been found. It has not been possible to differentiate between 1948 or 1953 (CF2a or b), and 1957 or 1958 (CF3 a or b) issues of Republican court fee adhesives (which differ only in watermark) when they are attached to documents. These are arbitrarily listed as CF2 (1948 aggregate) or CF3 (1958 aggregate). When stamps off paper have been examined, they are separately listed under the appropriate code.

Overprints for Rajasthan Drought Relief and Refugee Relief are not included here, but I am preparing information about these issues for the next edition of the PSR.

= new listing since first edition (Princely States Report No.1, October 2000)

English, no frame

• "Rajasthan"
• "Pagasthan"
• "Ragisthan"
• "Rajasthan State"
• "Raj"
• "RS"
• "RJ"

• "Rajasthan"
• "Rajasthan State"
• "Raj"
• "RS"
• "RJ"

• "Rajasthan"
• "Rajasthan Sarkar"

• "Rajasthan"
• "Rajasthan State"
• "Rajasthan Rajya"
• "Sanyukt Rajasthan Sarkar"
• "Sa Ra Sarkar"

EAa1a (click to enlarge)

EAa2 (click to enlarge)

EAa2a (click to enlarge)

EAa3

EAa4 (click to enlarge)

EAa5

EAa8a (click to enlarge)

EAa9 (click to enlarge)

EAa13

EAa13a

EAa15

EAa17

EAa21

English, no frame, "Rajasthan" text

EAa	Rajasthan
EAa1	Sans serif capitals, 62 × 4 mm (Brinkley H11a) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican CF2 court fees.
EAa1a	Sans serif capitals, 49 × 8 mm (Brinkley H11f). Colour: red, violet. On adhesives: Imperial court fees. On stamped papers: Jodhpur type 55, Republican copying fees.
EAa2	Serif capitals, 43 × 5.5 mm Note: The tops of the "A"s are pointed, unlike in types EAa2a and EAa4 where the tops are flat; in the revenues this overprint extends across three stamps, so each bears only part of the word. Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican CF5 court fees and RV5A revenues.
EAa2a	Serif capitals, 42 × 5 mm Colour: violet. On stamped papers: Republican copying fees.
EAa3	Sans serif capitals and small capitals, 38 × 5.5(4) mm Colour: violet. On stamped papers: Jodhpur type 65.
EAa4	Serif capitals, roman font, 39 × 5 mm (Brinkley H12a, as 38 × 4.5 mm) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican CC3 copying fees, CF2 and CF3 court fees. On stamped papers: Jodhpur type 65, Republican copying fees and revenues.
EAa5	Serif capitals, italic font, 38 × 4.5 mm Colour: violet. On adhesives: Mewar type 40, Imperial court fees, Republican CF2 court fees. On stamped papers: Imperial court fees, Republican revenues.
EAa6	Sans serif capitals, 34 × 5mm (Brinkley H11b) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican CF3 court fees.
EAa7	Sans serif capitals, 34 × 3 mm (Brinkley H11c) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Dholpur type 20?, Sirohi type 10, Imperial and Republican CF2 court fees. On stamped papers: Jodhpur type 65, Imperial revenues.
EAa8	Serif capitals, italic font, 33 × 4 mm Colour: violet. On stamped papers: Imperial court fees.
EAa8a	Serif capitals, italic font, 30.5 × 3.5 mm Colour: violet. On stamped papers: Republican revenues.
EAa9	Sans serif capitals, 28 × 4 mm Colour: violet. On stamped papers: Imperial court fees, Republican revenues.
EAa10	Sans serif capitals, 28 × 3 mm (Brinkley H11d) Colour: blue, violet. On adhesives: Alwar types 16, 17, 18, 33, Republican CF2 and CF3 court fees. On stamped papers: Dholpur type 75.
EAa10a	Serif capitals, 25 × 5 mm (Brinkley H12b) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Mewar type 25, Republican CF2 court fees.
EAa11	Sans serif capitals, 25 × 3 mm Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican CC3 copying fees and CF5 court fees.
EAa12	Sans serif capitals, 24 × 2.5 mm (Brinkley H11e) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican CF3 court fees.
EAa13	Serif upper and lower case letters, 21 × 3(2) mm, with a stop 3 mm beyond the "n" Colour: violet. On stamped papers: Imperial court fees.
EAa13a	Sans serif capitals, 19 × 4 mm Colour: violet. On adhesives: Sirohi type 31. On stamped papers: Republican revenues.
EAa14	Serif upper and lower case letters, 19 × 3(2) mm (Brinkley H14a) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Imperial court fees, Republican CC2 copying fees and CF2 court fees.
EAa15	Serif upper and lower case letters, italic font, 18 × 3(2) mm (Brinkley H14d) or 18 × 2.5(2) mm (Brinkley H14b); we are now in agreement that these two types are identical Colour: violet. On adhesives: Jodhpur types 7, 8, 33, Sirohi types 10, 15, 29, 31, Republican CF2 court fees. On stamped papers: Republican revenues.
EAa16	Typographed serif capitals, 18 × 2 mm (Brinkley T4) Colour: black, blue. On adhesives: Imperial revenues, Republican RV2A and RV2B revenues. varieties: (i) missing "T"; (ii) inverted
EAa17	Sans serif upper and lower case letters, 17 × 3(2) mm Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican CC2 copying fees and CF2 court fees.
EAa18	Typographed serif upper and lower case, 16 × 2(1) mm (Brinkley T5) Colour: black. On adhesives: Imperial and Republican court fees.
EAa19	As EAa18 but handstamped, 16 × 2(1) mm (Brinkley H14c) Colour: violet. On adhesives: Republican RV2A revenues.
EAa20	Sans serif capitals, 15 × 3 mm Colour: violet. On adhesives: Sirohi type 31. On stamped papers: Jodhpur type 65.
EAa21	Manuscript, size variable Colour: variable. On adhesives: Jodhpur types 7, 8, Sirohi types 10, 15, 18.

EAc1

EAd2 (click to enlarge)

EAd2a (click to enlarge)

EAd3

EAd5

EAd6

EAd8

EAd9

EAh1A

EAh1

EAi1

EBa1A (click to enlarge)

EBa1

EBa2

EBd1

EBh1A

EBh1

EBh2

EBh3

HAa1A (click to enlarge)

HAa1B (click to enlarge)

HAa1C (click to enlarge)

HAa1D (click to enlarge)

HAa1E (click to enlarge)

HAa1 (click to enlarge)

HAa2

HAa3 (click to enlarge)

HAa3b

HAa3c

HAa4

HAa5

HAa5a

HAa5b

HAa6

HAa7

HAa8

HAa9

HAa12

HAa14

HAa15

HAa16 var. (double overprint)

HAa18 var. (inverted overprint)

HBa1A (click to enlarge)

HBa1 (click to enlarge)

HBa1a (click to enlarge)

HBa2

HBa2a (click to enlarge)

HBa4 (click to enlarge)

HBa5 (click to enlarge)

HBa5a (click to enlarge)

HBa5b (click to enlarge)

HBa6

HBa7

HBa7b (click to enlarge)

HBa8

HBa10

HBa11

HBa11a

HBa13

HBa14 (click to enlarge)

HBe1

HBe2

HBj1

HBj2

Note: In the first edition of this catalogue the first word of this overprint was transliterated as "Sanyuk", perpetuating an error in both K&M and Brinkley's article. I thank Anil Kumar for pointing out the correct spelling. The translation is "Government of Rajasthan Service". Sa Ra Sarkar [HBk] is the abbreviated form.

HBj	Sanyukt Rajasthan Sarkar
HBj1	71 × 6 mm; frame key-shaped, 90 × 21(15) mm (Brinkley H2b) Colour: black, blue, orange, purple, red, violet. On adhesives: Banswara type 6, Partabgarh types 5?, 7. On stamped papers: Banswara types 10, 15, Bundi type 20C, Jhalawar type 15, Kishangarh type 30, Kotah type 55, Mewar types 10, 50 and type 20 ovpt.ed for Mewar-Merwara, Partabgarh type 30, Shahpura type 25, Tonk types 35, 40. On blank paper stamped with Dungapur court fee adhesives.
HBj2	38 × 3 mm; frame key-shaped, 44 × 10(5) mm (Brinkley H2a) Colour: black, blue, brown, red, violet. On adhesives: Banswara type 15, Bharatpur type 6, Bundi type 12, Dungapur types 9, 10, Jaipur type 10, Jaipur Khetri estate type 1, Jhalawar type 25, Kotah types 23, 30, Kushulgarh type 6, Mewar types 20, 21, 25, 28, 29, 35, 40, 41, 50, Partabgarh Types 5, 7, Shahpura type 10, Sirohi types 10, 11, 15. On stamped papers: Shahpura type 5, Tonk types 35, 40. On blank paper stamped with Dungapur court fee adhesives.

HBk1

HBk2 (click to enlarge)