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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
How teasing is this? some clod cut the postcard in half! I am a bit of a romantic, but this is how I see it. The Governor? of Nilgiris, Madras Presidency, India, is a stamp collector. He is well known to the stamp dealer WHITFIELD KING & CO of Ipswich England. The Manager of Whitfield King has written to the Governor?, offering him 3 Scinde Dawks. (3 used Scinde Dawks) Coonoor cancel 11th Sept 1900 (1st Del) What do you think? Anythink you can add? http://cjoint.com/data/goq5MHnhDu.htm http://cjoint.com/data/goq7MSB8jN.htm |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
On Jun 15, 1:04 am, "rodney" wrote:
How teasing is this? some clod cut the postcard in half! I am a bit of a romantic, but this is how I see it. The Governor? of Nilgiris, Madras Presidency, India, is a stamp collector. He is well known to the stamp dealer WHITFIELD KING & CO of Ipswich England. The Manager of Whitfield King has written to the Governor?, offering him 3 Scinde Dawks. (3 used Scinde Dawks) Coonoor cancel 11th Sept 1900 (1st Del) What do you think? Anythink you can add? http://cjoint.com/data/goq5MHnhDu.htm http://cjoint.com/data/goq7MSB8jN.htm The Nilgiris was a hill station in the Madras Presidency, so the '...or' might well be part of a hotel/guest house/residence name. By chance, a very fine used blue Scinde Dawk sold recently in New York for $US4750 + 15% commission; a red with a couple of nicks on a piece to which it does not belong, went for $US1400 + commission. I wonder if the gentlemen concluded the deal for the three, and if so, just what the quid pro quo was. (My 1904 Gibbons Part 1 lists the white at 15/- used, the blue at 35/- and the red at 80/-.) Tony |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
On Jun 15, 5:55 pm, Asia-translation
wrote: On Jun 15, 1:04 am, "rodney" wrote: How teasing is this? some clod cut the postcard in half! I am a bit of a romantic, but this is how I see it. The Governor? of Nilgiris, Madras Presidency, India, is a stamp collector. He is well known to the stamp dealer WHITFIELD KING & CO of Ipswich England. The Manager of Whitfield King has written to the Governor?, offering him 3 Scinde Dawks. (3 used Scinde Dawks) Coonoor cancel 11th Sept 1900 (1st Del) What do you think? Anythink you can add? http://cjoint.com/data/goq5MHnhDu.htm http://cjoint.com/data/goq7MSB8jN.htm The Nilgiris was a hill station in the Madras Presidency, so the '...or' might well be part of a hotel/guest house/residence name. By chance, a very fine used blue Scinde Dawk sold recently in New York for $US4750 + 15% commission; a red with a couple of nicks on a piece to which it does not belong, went for $US1400 + commission. I wonder if the gentlemen concluded the deal for the three, and if so, just what the quid pro quo was. (My 1904 Gibbons Part 1 lists the white at 15/- used, the blue at 35/- and the red at 80/-.) Tony Just dawned on me: the '...or' must be the end of 'Coonoor' T |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
How could you afford that catalogue in your early teens? "Asia-translation" (My 1904 Gibbons Part 1 lists the white at 15/- used, the blue at 35/- and the red at 80/-.) |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
On Jun 15, 3:55*am, Asia-translation
wrote: On Jun 15, 1:04 am, "rodney" wrote: How teasing is this? some clod cut the postcard in half! I am a bit of a romantic, but this is how I see it. The Governor? of Nilgiris, Madras Presidency, India, is a stamp collector. He is well known to the stamp dealer WHITFIELD KING & CO of Ipswich England. The Manager of Whitfield King has written to the Governor?, offering him 3 Scinde Dawks. *(3 used Scinde Dawks) Coonoor cancel 11th Sept 1900 (1st Del) What do you think? Anythink you can add? http://cjoint.com/data/goq5MHnhDu.htm http://cjoint.com/data/goq7MSB8jN.htm The Nilgiris was a hill station in the Madras Presidency, so the '...or' might well be part of a hotel/guest house/residence name. By chance, a very fine used blue Scinde Dawk sold recently in New York for $US4750 + 15% commission; a red with a couple of nicks on a piece to which it does not belong, went for $US1400 + commission. I wonder if the gentlemen concluded the deal for the three, and if so, just what the quid pro quo was. *(My 1904 Gibbons Part 1 lists the white at 15/- used, the blue at 35/- and the red at 80/-.) Tony Interestingly, I have a cousin who was born in Coonoor. Her father was in the Canadian army and was on exchange with the Indian army in the 50s / 60s , when she was born. As such , she had a choice of citizenships when she grew up. It would have been interesting over there, as she is a redhead. About as rare in India, as a nice Scinde Dawk. Blair |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
I am not surprised Blair, is sounds absolutely fabulous, and I was reading the Maharajas of Travancore had a palace there. I think I also read "A passage to India " was filmed there. A part of the world, and my first destination, should I ever jag my weekly Lotto. The Southwest of India. Coonoor / Canada...choice? as I am about to fill my hot water bottle for bed, I should think there is no choice. I shall see for sure "Blair" Interestingly, I have a cousin who was born in Coonoor. Her father was in the Canadian army and was on exchange with the Indian army in the 50s / 60s , when she was born. As such , she had a choice of citizenships when she grew up. It would have been interesting over there, as she is a redhead. About as rare in India, as a nice Scinde Dawk. Blair |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
Double paper rounds, Rodney
T rodney wrote: How could you afford that catalogue in your early teens? "Asia-translation" (My 1904 Gibbons Part 1 lists the white at 15/- used, the blue at 35/- and the red at 80/-.) |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
Not the same thing at all, but one of my exs was (and still is) a
large and belligerent Indonesian woman, with more than a passing resemblance to a rhinoceros. She used to cause alarm & despondency by travelling around the countryside calling herself - as she was perfectly entitled to do - 'Mrs Mac Gillycuddy'. Tony of the Antipathies Blair wrote: On Jun 15, 3:55 am, Asia-translation wrote: On Jun 15, 1:04 am, "rodney" wrote: How teasing is this? some clod cut the postcard in half! I am a bit of a romantic, but this is how I see it. The Governor? of Nilgiris, Madras Presidency, India, is a stamp collector. He is well known to the stamp dealer WHITFIELD KING & CO of Ipswich England. The Manager of Whitfield King has written to the Governor?, offering him 3 Scinde Dawks. (3 used Scinde Dawks) Coonoor cancel 11th Sept 1900 (1st Del) What do you think? Anythink you can add? http://cjoint.com/data/goq5MHnhDu.htm http://cjoint.com/data/goq7MSB8jN.htm The Nilgiris was a hill station in the Madras Presidency, so the '...or' might well be part of a hotel/guest house/residence name. By chance, a very fine used blue Scinde Dawk sold recently in New York for $US4750 + 15% commission; a red with a couple of nicks on a piece to which it does not belong, went for $US1400 + commission. I wonder if the gentlemen concluded the deal for the three, and if so, just what the quid pro quo was. (My 1904 Gibbons Part 1 lists the white at 15/- used, the blue at 35/- and the red at 80/-.) Tony Interestingly, I have a cousin who was born in Coonoor. Her father was in the Canadian army and was on exchange with the Indian army in the 50s / 60s , when she was born. As such , she had a choice of citizenships when she grew up. It would have been interesting over there, as she is a redhead. About as rare in India, as a nice Scinde Dawk. Blair |
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..."we can offer you 3 Scinde Dawks"
Sometimes hardships forge a finer outcome,
I would like to see 30 years hence with our current Climate knowledge. Without an "offer of marriage" failure due to a fiscally minded woman, and his subsequent marriage to her after her nervous breakdown, we may have never had a brokered peace in India, and we may have lost at Waterloo. "Asia-translation" Not the same thing at all, but one of my exs was (and still is) a large and belligerent Indonesian woman, with more than a passing resemblance to a rhinoceros. She used to cause alarm & despondency by travelling around the countryside calling herself - as she was perfectly entitled to do - 'Mrs Mac Gillycuddy'. Tony of the Antipathies Blair wrote: On Jun 15, 3:55 am, Asia-translation wrote: On Jun 15, 1:04 am, "rodney" wrote: How teasing is this? some clod cut the postcard in half! I am a bit of a romantic, but this is how I see it. The Governor? of Nilgiris, Madras Presidency, India, is a stamp collector. He is well known to the stamp dealer WHITFIELD KING & CO of Ipswich England. The Manager of Whitfield King has written to the Governor?, offering him 3 Scinde Dawks. (3 used Scinde Dawks) Coonoor cancel 11th Sept 1900 (1st Del) What do you think? Anythink you can add? http://cjoint.com/data/goq5MHnhDu.htm http://cjoint.com/data/goq7MSB8jN.htm The Nilgiris was a hill station in the Madras Presidency, so the '...or' might well be part of a hotel/guest house/residence name. By chance, a very fine used blue Scinde Dawk sold recently in New York for $US4750 + 15% commission; a red with a couple of nicks on a piece to which it does not belong, went for $US1400 + commission. I wonder if the gentlemen concluded the deal for the three, and if so, just what the quid pro quo was. (My 1904 Gibbons Part 1 lists the white at 15/- used, the blue at 35/- and the red at 80/-.) Tony Interestingly, I have a cousin who was born in Coonoor. Her father was in the Canadian army and was on exchange with the Indian army in the 50s / 60s , when she was born. As such , she had a choice of citizenships when she grew up. It would have been interesting over there, as she is a redhead. About as rare in India, as a nice Scinde Dawk. Blair |
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