Painting on Old Jaipur State Revenue Stamp Paper

There have always been a keen interest of art lovers in Rajasthani painting and it is obvious when due to most of art schools of Rajasthan. How can one forget to mention Bani Thani and other famous arts of Rajasthan.

One another form of Jaipur painting is 'Painting on revenue stamp paper'. 

Before independence, Indian revenue stamps were closely modelled on similar designs from Great Britain, While most princely states that had issued stamps from the nineteenth century stopped with independence, Jaipur, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Sikkim continued to do so until the 1960s.

Those type of papers is main attraction of this style of painting.



Wish to have these on wall of your drawing room :) ? 

Don't worry you can have these with as low as INR 500 ($10) nowadays (reprinted copy of original stamps). You can also get original old stamp but bit more expensive.. somewhat around INR 2500 - INR 3000