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KALAT & KHARAN DISTRICTS

Handstamps which are described as very similar are listed separately by Isani for these two
Districts. Service issues are assigned to Kalat, whilst ordinary are given.to Kharan. He states in
relation to the former that they were "used mostly in Dhadar and Gondawa, from February to
August 1961. Also known used in Kalat, Kharan-District Kharan and Nushki-District Chagai. This
wide usage of service stamps in places outside the District of origin is not likely to be on account
of casual coverage. It is more likely to be due to official transfer of stocks. Another possibility is
that a number of identical seals may have been distributed in the adjoining districts of Kalat, Kharan
and Chagai. There is, however, no evidence to this effect." The ordinary issues are listed as having
been recorded ill use in Kharan and Mastung.

Since 1981 it has been possible to study a larger body of material but the result is probably only to
confirm the uncertainty. Without doubt, handstamps on service adhesives are significantly more
common and a number of previously unrecorded varieties point to a hurried or not very careful
overprinting set up. As there appears to be no obvious pattern it is probably safest to treat this as
one issue, albeit possibly produced in more than one location.

One line handstamp showing the new currency, Pin capitals. Height of figures & P 5 I 5.5mm,
Length ofPaisa l lmm.

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