The world’s first postage stamp, the British ‘Penny Black’ of 1840, and a collection of over 150 rare postal stamps from Hyderabad of the Nizams – – offering an insight into the postal system of the erstwhile princely state – are currently on view here for the first time.
Exhibited at the Bikaner House here, the show of stamps, postcards, letters and other ephemera is titled “Property of A Gentleman: Stamps from the Nizam of Hyderabad’s Dominions”. It presents rarities from the Ewari Family Collection.
