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3 Annas Calcutta; Hundi promissory note
| Issuer | Private merchant/trader issue, Calcutta |
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| Composition | Handmade laid paper |
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| Obverse description | Entirely handwritten document in Devanagari script, executed in black ink on cream handmade laid paper. Multiple lines of cursive Devanagari text fill the face, with an embossed stamp seal visible toward the upper-right corner. A faint blue underprint of repeated script characters is discernible beneath the main handwritten text. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse bears sparser handwritten annotations in Devanagari and cursive scripts, with a large diagonal cancellation line drawn in black ink. An embossed official seal appears in the upper-left area, and a hand-drawn rectangular vignette with numerical notation is present at centre-left. Faint blue printed Devanagari underprint text covers the entire surface. |
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| Protection description | Blind embossed circular official stamp seal applied to both faces of the document |
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