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THE 1895 ONE RUPEE STAMP
Koeppel & Manners refer to red brown and rose printings, with some rose issues on laid paper
They also refer to a second die without background shading in a rose printing
An impeccable rose printing from a document of 1895, the earliest known to the exhibitor
These are pinperfed and consist of a strip of three at the left and a pair at the right
A cut to shape red-brown example from am 1896 document showing lack of detail on the horses’ bodies
There is a reduced amount shading in the background, but it is there
A pinperfed red brown example from an 1899 document showing no shading in the horses
and very little background shading. Likely to be the no shading Die II of K&P.
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