A traditional container for formal letters that were to be
delivered by a
special
herald or messenger; *another example*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
*"A kinkhab bag, Kharita, used as an
envelope by
the princes of India, with the seal of H.H. Tukoji Rao Holkar...
engraved by Shekh Nisar Mahomed of Delhi," from the Journal of
Indian
Arts, vol. 1, London 1886*
Source: ebay, July 2010
"Diorama of the route of the
overland
mail to India-- Leaving Suez," from the Illustrated London News,
1850
Source: ebay, July 2009
*"Launch of
the
West India mail steam-ship 'Solent', at Cowes," from the
Illustrated
London News, 1853*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2009
"Mail-gary in the northwest of India," from 'Ballou's
Pictorial,'
1856
Source: ebay, June 2008
"Dawk Walas (Postmen) of Bengal," Illustrated London News,
1858
Source: ebay, June 2004
"Slinging letter-bags in the rainy
season," from the Illustrated London News, 1858; also *"The catamaran postman"*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2009
"Her Majesty's Mail in India," from
the Illustrated London News, 1867
Source: ebay, June 2009
Successive postmarks on a letter to the Nawab of Rampur, 1867
Source: Muraqqa'-e Ghalib, by Prithvi Chand (Delhi: Lakshmi
Printing
Works, 1966), pages not numbered; scan by FWP, Nov. 2006
The postmarks show that the letter travelled from Delhi to
Meerut,
then on to Calcutta, then on to Aligarh, then to Rampur, where it
finally
caught up with the Nawab.
"The postal services carriage," by
A.
de Neuville, from 'Le Tour du Monde', 1873
Source: ebay, Oct. 2008
A special postal office was set up on the Prince of Wales's
ship
(Illustrated London News, 1875); *another,
similar
view from The Graphic, 1875*; also *Loading
mailbags into the Prince of Wales's ship, from The Graphic,
1875*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
"Gwalior: The Dak-Ghari," from
'India
and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878
Source: ebay, Apr. 2009
*"General
Post
Office,
Calcutta, Dalhousie Square," a photo c.1870's*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2010
*"Travelling
in
the Madras Presidency," from 'Peoples of the World' by Robert
Brown,
1892*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2009
A letter sent from Diu to Karachi in 1881; the envelope has
been
secured with sealing-wax
Source: ebay, Mar. 2006
A glass lantern slide, c.1900, from
India or Ceylon: across
the
man's chest is a
leather strap, leading to his letter pouch; in one hand he carries
a
package, and on his shoulder is a large metal badge that reads
"Post
Office
Delivery Peon No. 11"
Source: ebay, Oct. 2008
The staff of the Delhi Central Post
Office, in a photo by Raja Deen Dayal, 1903 (to celebrate the
coronation of Edward VII)
Source: ebay, June 2009
"Mail sorters," a photo by A. Keyes, 1925-30
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
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