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About Jal Cooper
- Jal Manekji Cooper FRGS (29 March 1905 – 2 August 1972) was an Indian philatelist, and an expert and authenticator of the postage stamps and postal history of India.
- Cooper was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of several philatelic handbooks.
- He was both a stamp dealer and a collector and was associated with philatelists like C.
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- Cooper, and Robson Lowe.
- Cooper is occasionally but erroneously credited with having discovered the Inverted Head 4 Annas.
- The 1891 reprints show that this error was already known.
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- Smythies said the error was first discovered at a meeting of the Philatelic Society of London in 1874.The Jal Cooper Philatelic Society, in Varanasi, India, is named after him and India Post issued a 10 rupees commemorative stamp in 1997 depicting Cooper and Indian postmarks, on the occasion of INDEPEX 97.
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