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Directional Handstamps

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Type

Text

Cover

Color

Known Usage from / till / Comments

(H) 1

Lhasa to Gyantse

 

 violet

(H) 2

Lhasa to Gyantse

Cover 1

Cover 2

Cover 3

 violet

 

 (H) 3

Lhasa to Gyantse

 

 black

The shown specimen also bears a late Registration Handstamp Type (Hel.) T93

(H) 4

Lhasa to Gyantse

 

 

 

(H) 5

Lhasa to Gyantse

Front

Reverse

 violet

 

(H) 6

Lhasa to Gyantse

 

 

 

(H) 7

Lhasa to Phari

 

 violet

On cover with late registration marking T-96 with same color

(H) 7

Lhasa to Phari

 

 black

On cover with late registration marking T-96 with same color

 (H) 8

Lhasa to Phari

 Front

 violet

 

(H) 9

Lhasa to Phari

Front

 violet

 

(H) 9

Lhasa to Phari

Front

 blue-violet

 

(H) 10

Lhasa to Phari

 Front

Reddish color

Unfortunately incomplete strike

(H) 11

Shigatse to Gyantse

 Front

 violet

 

(H) 12

Gyantse to Lhasa

 

 

 

(H) 13

Gyantse to Lhasa

Front

violet

Earliest: Ca. 1930, on Fragment with 1/2 Tr. Deep Purple (Shiny)

(H) 13

Gyantse to Lhasa

 

violet

(H) 14

Gyantse to Lhasa

 

 

 

(H) 15

Phari to Lhasa

 Front

 violet

On cover with late registration marking with same color in a type I can not identify. I have marked that type with T-N01.

(H) 15

Phari to Lhasa

Front

Front

 violet

On cover with late registration marking with same color in a type I can not identify. I have marked that type with T-N04.

(H) 16

Phari to Lhasa

 

 

 

(H) 17

Yatung to Lhasa

 

 blue

 

(H) 17

Yatung to Lhasa

Front

 violet

 

(F) 18

Lhasa to Shigatse

 Front

 

Similar to Type 4, See also Postal Himal No. 153, article by Ed Boers, page 4

(F) 19

Lhasa to Gyantse

 Front

 

Similar to Type 12, See also Postal Himal No. 153, article by Ed Boers, page 5

(F) 20

Lhasa to ?

 Front

 black

On Cover from Lhasa, together with an unrecorded late registration marking T-96 in the same color.

I have marked that registration marking with T-N02

(F) 21

 Front

violet

Similar to Type (H) 17 but upper line not straight

(F) 21

Front

violet

Similar to Type (H) 17 but upper line not straight

(F) 22

 

 Front

violet

On Cover together with an unrecorded late registration marking T-95 in the same color.

(D) d

(F) 23

 

 Front

Reverse

violet