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Scinde Dawk, 1852, 1/2 Anna, Blue&nbsp;on piece with tied Diamond of dots Cancellation,&nbsp;on piece is comparatively rarer than the fine used.&nbsp;Certified&nbsp;By Bernard Behar Pascal Behr, Paris, Certificate No. 217414, dated 1st Nov 2011, USED, Margin Touched at the Top, Whereas Margin Alround on other Three Sides, Very Light Cancellation,&nbsp;SG #2, &nbsp;Extremely Rare.

Scinde&nbsp;Dawk&nbsp;was a very old system of runners that served the&nbsp;Indus Valley of&nbsp;Sindh,&nbsp;(Now in Pakistan), The term also refers to the first adhesive postage stamps in Asia. The name derives from the words&nbsp;&ldquo;Scinde&rdquo;,&nbsp;the British spelling of the name of the province of&nbsp;&ldquo;Sindh&rdquo;,&nbsp;and&nbsp;&ldquo;Dawk&rdquo;,&nbsp;the anglicized spelling of the&nbsp;Hindustani&nbsp;word&nbsp;&ldquo;Dak&rdquo;&nbsp;or Post.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Dawk, or&nbsp;Dak, was a very old postal system of runners.

Bartle Frere of the East India Company became the Chief Commissioner of Sindh in 1850. Following the English example set by Rowland Hill, Frere improved upon the postal system of Sindh by introducing a cheap and uniform rate for postage, independent of distance travelled. In 1851 the runners were replaced with an efficient system using horses and camels, following routes through Scinde province, generally along the valley of the Indus river. The mail was carried quickly and efficiently, connecting government offices and post offices from Karachi through Kotri and Hyderabad up to Sukkur in the north.

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