As well as the tablet issue, a second set was issued in 1293.
The basic set in grey: for use at Kabul and Peshawar. Two plates, each with 24 stamps, one of all shahi types, and one a composite plate of all values. These are: Shahi (pos. 16); Sanar (pos. 21); Abasi (pos. 19); half rupee (pos. 16); and 1 rupee (pos. 12).
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The stamps were alos printed in grey-green (to olive and brown) for use at Kabul; in brown, brown-black and possibly purple for use at Jalalabad; and in purple (often oxidised to brown) for use at Tashkurghan.
Two shahi trypes (pos 7 and 23) cancelled by distinctive red stain and tear of Peshawar.
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Shahi brown, pos 20, cancelled by neat scissor cut and manuscript, indicative of use at Kabul.
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Sanar (pos 1) with cancelling tear on cover to India with Indian half anna to pay postage within India. Stamps in brown used at Kabul and Jellalabad.
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The brown-black stamps from Jalalabad are particularly hard to find, especially on cover.
Shahi in brown-black used on cover from Jalalabad to Peshawar with the distictive Jalalabad cancel of a piece cut out
of the stamp with blue ink then smeared across.
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