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INDIA FISCAL STAMPS, Embossed Type

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The embossed type consist of an embossed red design in the center, with green lines in a square around it with "FOREIGN BILL" in green in the center. There is a date printed on each stamp (in numbers), for example "23 11 60". This basic design was used for some provisional fiscal stamps for other purposes by overprinting it. Apparently they are printed in row of 5 stamps, with the center ones printed in tete-beche.

1860 Foreign Bill:

1860: "FOREIGN BILL" on 4 a red embossed seal. It exists in the values 4 a, 1 R and 4 R all in red with a variety of dates printed in the 3 corners. Also a surcharged stamp "EIGHT ANNAS" on 4 a issued in 1901 to 1904. The overprint is in green (with green borders around the stamp), although it looks almost black in the scan of the first two stamps.

  FOUR ANNAS red and green
  ONE RUPEE red and green
  FOUR RUPEES red and green

In 1901 some surcharges were done

  "FOUR ANNAS 4 ANS" on 1 R red and green
  "EIGHT ANNAS" on 1 R red and green
  3 R on 4 R red and green

Court Fees provisional overprints:

1870 Provisional issue for Bombay. Red vertical overprint "COURT FEES." on Foreign Bill embossed stamps. This overprint exists on the 4 a, 1 R and 4 R stamps. The overprint can be reading downward or upward.

1870 Calcutta issue: Horizontal overprint "COURT FEES" overprint and two bars on "FOREIGN BILL"; only the 4 a was issued in Calcutta.

Notarial:

1 R red and green Foreign Bill stamp of 1860 with "NOTARIAL" overprint, issued in Bombay. If my information is correct, two different sizes exist of this overprint.

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