Description: This British India postage stamp features a split design format framed in a warm chocolate-brown and sepia palette. The left-hand panel contains a detailed landscape engraving of the towering gateway tower (gopuram) of the Rameswaram Temple in the Madras Presidency, flanked by a tropical palm tree. The right-hand panel showcases a right-facing portrait medallion of King George V, depicted in full military uniform, wearing his imperial crown, and framed by an ornate royal wreath. Curving over the temple illustration is the text "INDIA POSTAGE", while the circular face value emblem "1A" (one anna) grounds the bottom-left corner. Bounding the lower layout is a celebratory scroll reading "SILVER JUBILEE COMMEMORATION", flanked by the historic milestone date of "6th May 1935".
Circa: This commemorative stamp was officially released on May 6, 1935, and remained in active use alongside its series counterparts for a limited time to mark the royal anniversary.
Condition: Used - Hinged
Notes:
This specimen is a postally used example bearing a prominent wavy black line cancellation scoring straight across the middle, though the main text and structural contours remain highly legible. While forty-four British colonies used a uniform omnibus design for the 1935 Silver Jubilee, India opted out and uniquely designed its own standalone set of seven stamps, each spotlighting a famous architectural landmark of the subcontinent. The sacred Ramanathaswamy Temple at Rameswaram shown here is historically significant for housing one of the longest corridors of any Hindu temple in the world. Printed by the Security Printing Press in Nashik via a precise lithography process, this one-anna value is a highly popular entry piece for thematic collections focused on royal jubilees, sacred geometry, or sacred sites of Asia.