The Native Postmarks of Nepal - Hellrigl & Hepper - Nepal Study Circle - 1978

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The Native Postmarks of Nepal, by Wolfgang Hellrigl & Colin Hepper - Nepal Study Circle, . About 8-1/2 by 11 inches red cloth over boards with gilt titles, 135 stated pages.  Contents and covers about very fine; dust jacket shows light wear.
GENERAL COMMENTS
We started out selling philatelic literature as a spin-off from our selling stamps, stamp collections and postal history.  However, as more and more books and libraries drop into our laps, philatelic literature has become one of our major categories. Many philatelic reference books are collectible in their own right. Most are out of print. We try to price according to collectibility, condition, rarity, and to a much lesser extent their value as reference guides.  Additionally, and on a condition-compared-to-condition basis, we try to undercut the competition.
Another comment about value as an inherent collectible, as compared to value as a reference guide: The truth is that more detailed and more up-to-date information is going to be available on the internet, but then you would not have that rare and hard-to-find book sitting there on the shelf, would you!  And, if you use a book as a working reference copy, what's easier:  Carrying a book into a stamp show or lugging in your computer?
Dust jackets: In the field of modern literary first editions, the lack of a dust jacket is death. I see a totally different result when it comes to philatelic literature. Many such books never came with a dust jacket to begin with, while some books I have seen with jackets and at the same time -- the very same book -- still in shrinkwrap and without dust jacket. If I show a book with dust jacket, then you are going to get that book with a dust jacket. If I do not show a dust jacket, then no dust jacket, and maybe the book never had one to start with. (Or maybe it did.)
When it comes to books and stamps, "very fine" pretty much means the same thing. However, "good' when it comes to books is still a pretty nice item, while "good" when it comes to stamps is a dog. The book you bring home new from the book store might rate only a "fine" rating, but still be close to as-new. A "fine" stamp on the other hand is no great shakes.
We ship by Media Mail within the United States.  We also will happily ship to Canada.  We will do the best we can to minimize the cost of postage, but it is still going to be expensive.
Free shipping within the U.S.
This item will be shipped from United States zip code 98498.
Postage stamps and postal history of Nepal
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A Nepali stamps from 1929.
This is a survey of the
postage stamps and postal history of
Nepal
.
Nepal has issued postal stamps since 1881.
[1]
Contents
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First stamps
2
UPU membership
3
See also
4
References and sources
5
Further reading
6
External links
First stamps
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A corner block of eight Nepali stamps from 1881.
The first Nepalese postage stamps were issued in April 1881 as a set of three which were valued at one
anna
, two annas, and four annas, inscribed as the
Kingdom of Gorkha
in Nepali script. These were initially perforated and printed on European-made paper. Within a few months they were released
imperforate
. In 1886 they were reprinted on hand-made Nepalese paper. Numerous printings of these first three values on the local paper were made for postal use until 1907, when new European-manufactured stamps picturing the god
Pashupati
were issued.
The remainders of first three values were brought out of storage and reissued for telegraph use in 1917. Several more telegraph era printings followed. The last of these printings was in 1929.
[2]
[3]
A Nepali stamps from 1907 depicting
Pashupati
.
First stamps of Nepal on cover, 1881
Selection of 1907–1935 Pashupati stamps
9 rupees
revenue stamp
of Nepal for court fees
UPU membership
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Nepal became a member of the
Universal Postal Union
(UPU) on 11 October 1956
[4]
(Ottawa Congress) which became effective from 14 April 1959.
See also
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Nepal and Tibet Philatelic Study Circle
References and sources
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Notes
^
Introduction of Postal Service
Archived
2013-09-30 at
WebCite
Nepal Post, 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
Archived here.
^
Hellrigl, Wolfgang C.
; Vignola, Frank (May 1984).
The Classic Stamps of Nepal
. Bozen, Italy: Nepal Tibet Philatelic Study Circle. pp. 27, 32, 40, 45–50.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20180303055530/http://www.stampworldhistory.com/country-profiles-2/asia/nepal-%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2/
Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^
"Universal Postal Union – Nepal"
.
Universal Postal Union
. 2011
. Retrieved
18 March
2011
.
Sources
Shrestha, Dr. Ramesh.
Nepalese Postal History from the earliest times until 1959
. Kathmandu, Nepal: Kazi Madhusudan Rajbhandary, 2009.
Further reading
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Shestra, Ramesh (2009).
Nepalese Postal History: from the earliest time until 1959
. Nepal.
Hellrigl, Wolfgang
; Hepper, Colin (1978).
The Native Postmarks of Nepal
. Peterborough, UK: Nepal and Tibet Philatelic Study Circle.
Dawson, L.E.
;
Smythies, E.A.
;
Haverbeck, H.D.S.
(1952).
The Postage Stamps of Nepal
. New York:
The Collectors Club
.
Hepper, Colin (2011).
The Sri Pashupati Issues of Nepal
. Peterborough, UK: Nepal and Tibet Philatelic Study Circle.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Stamps of Nepal
.
List of Nepali postage stamps.
nepalstamps.com
Nepal and Tibet Philatelic Study Circle.