Jal Cooper
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Jal Manekji Cooper, FRGS (d. 1972), was a celebrated Indian philatelist, and a recognized expert and authenticator[1] of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Cooper was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of several important philatelic handbooks.
Cooper was both a stamp dealer[2] and a collector. Living in Bombay (present day Mumbai), he was associated with other great philatelists like C. D. Desai,[3] N. D. Cooper, and Robson Lowe.
Cooper's expertise in Indian philately is well known. However, we cannot credit him with having discovered the greatest Indian rarity, the Inverted Head 4 Annas, for the 1891 reprints provide tangible evidence that this error was already known; but E. A. Smythies said the error was first discovered at a meeting of the Philatelic Society of London in 1874.[4]
The 'Jal Cooper Philatelic Society', in Varanasi, India is named after him.
[edit] Publications
- Stamps of India, Bombay (1942), 177 pp.; reprint: Bombay (1968).
- Early Indian Cancellations, Bombay (1948) 92 pp.; reprint: Bombay (1993).
- India Used Abroad Western Printers and Publishers Press of Bombay (1950) 100 pp.; reprinted in India's Stamp Journal (1972)
- India Used In Burma Western Printers and Publishers Press of Bombay (1950) 67 pp.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.filatelia.fi/experts/marks/cooper.jpg Cooper's authentication mark
- ^ http://www.stampsofindia.com/newssite/vando/trans-001.htm Philately in Transition in India
- ^ Cooper, Jal; Foreword to the auction catalog: The Unique Collection of India offered by order of the Executors of the late Mr. C. D. Desai, F.R.P.S.L., Robson Lowe (London), May 25 and 26, 1949. Sale Nos. 838-841.
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/mjshah.geo/articles/classic_error.html E. A. Smythies, "A Classic Stamp Error," American Philatelist, pp. 59, 60 [1950].
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