Scinde Dawk

Scinde Dawk
1852 red sealing wafer Scinde Dawk stamp
Country of production	Sindh
Location of production	Die produced by De La Rue, London
Date of production	1852 (1852)
Nature of rarity	Very rare
No. in existence	Less than 100
Face value	one-half anna

Scinde Dawk (Sindhi: سندي ڊاڪ) was a postal system of runners that served the Indus Valley of Sindh, an area of present-day Pakistan. The term also refers to the first adhesive postage stamps in Asia,^[1] the forerunners of the adhesive stamps used throughout India, Burma, the Straits Settlements and other areas controlled by the British East India Company.^[2] The name derives from the words "Scinde", the British spelling of the name of the province of Sindh, and "Dawk", the anglicised spelling of the Hindustani word "Dak" or Post.