![Empire of British India and Ceylon [Coins]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/coins-of-the-raj_0.jpg?itok=58p0u2yD "Empire of British India and Ceylon [Coins]")
A beautiful embossed card showing exchange rates between Indian and European currencies, in those days usually stable for long periods of time.
The H.S.M. in the top left corner stands for Hugo Semmler, Magdeburg, per Helmfried Luers in his The
R. Jalbhoy was a major Karachi photographer and postcard publisher at the turn of the century, who could often depict people and parts of the city that fell off the usual tourist or landmark circuit. Note the shoes on the sitters in this studio shot.
Shankar is another name for Lord Shiva, one of the most important deities in Hinduism.
Many postcards speak to the physical labor that allowed residents of hillstations to warm their homes and cook their food, often leading men and women with permanently bent backs.
Postmarked [illegible date] Rawalpindi, addressed to Miss. L. Ballinger, Montrose House, 155 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, with this message on the back:
"This place is the same as a Town in England I Remain Your Old Dear Best."
For some unknown reason, Moorli Dhur & Sons most framed, embossed and otherwise uniquely designed postcards are from Chakrata, a cantonment in Dehradun district Chakrata known for its natural beauty, including forests of oak and rhododendron, and
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Santals are an Austroasiatic-speaking Munda ethnic group in Bengal, Bihar and elsewhere.
An early British Royal Air Force base in Pishin, Balochistan, near the Afghan border and what was then Northwest Frontier Province where the British were engaged in suppressing tribal resistance throughout the 192s and 1930s.
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha (24 March 1863 – 4 March 1928), was a prominent British Indian lawyer and statesman who achieved several notable firsts, including being the first Indian to become Advocate-General of Bengal (1905), first
A view from inside the hillstation of Murree's bazaar, usually shown from the top down. The Mall Road is upwards to the left, and was where the European-owned and focussed stores were.
