Stamps were required for the prepayment of postage, a basic feature of the new system. These stamps, first issued on 1 July 1852, [4] bore the Merchants' Mark of the British East India Company [5] in a design embossed on wafers of red sealing wax impressed on paper.

In 1851, Sir Bartle Frere introduced the "Dawk" or the postal system in the British India and the first stamp of "Half Ana" was published from the Scinde (present day Sind province of Pakistan). These were the first stamps issued in Asia and also the world's first round stamps.

How to identify 1. The letters E, I and C inside the central cordate insignia are sanserif in the original whereas in the forgery, all 3 letters are in serif. 2. The A of ANNA lies above S of SCINDE in the original stamp whereas in the forgery, A is shifted towards lower right. 3.

Stamps belonging to convention and feudatory states have been excluded. The Mughal India utilized a communication system called “dawk” or “dak,” which employed horse runners for swift deliveries and foot runners for shorter distances. However, a more formal postal system in India began under the East India Company.

With a face value of only ½ anna, the Scinde Dawk stamps are now considered to be one of the rarest classic postage stamps in the world of philately. They are also unique in that they were …

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2018年2月11日 · The name combined ‘ Scinde’ a colonial British spelling of the province of Sindh and ‘ Dawk’ after Dak, a local Indian name for postage. So why was the stamp first introduced in Sindh, instead of Calcutta, the capital of the British India? The answer lies in a complex web of geopolitics, economics and the opium trade.

A rare type of postage stamp, the Scinde Dawk is the forerunners of the adhesive stamps used throughout India. It was the first adhesive postage stamp to be produced in Asia by Sir Bartle Frere, the then Governor of Scinde.

In 1852, they revitalised the postal system of Sindh, and introduced a standard prepaid stamp, called Scinde Dawk (meaning Sindh Post). It was a seal embossed on red wax, costing ½ anna, or 1/32 Rupee. Less than 100 brittle specimens exist now, and each is worth lakhs of Rupees.

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