Lot 40108 - NAGPUR — NATIVE INDIAN RECEIPT BOOK. Unusual page from

NAGPUR — NATIVE INDIAN RECEIPT BOOK. Unusual page from a contemporary native Indian merchant’s receipt book, bearing multiple strikes of the NAGPUR HG4 and HG5 handstamps on both front and reverse. Such books were maintained by local shopkeepers and merchants as records of local deliveries and transactions, providing fascinating evidence of the everyday commercial application of postal markings. A distinctive and seldom-encountered piece of Nagpur postal and social history.