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[[File:Jal Cooper 1997 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Cooper on a 1997 stamp of India]]<br />
'''Jal Manekji Cooper''' [[FRGS]] (29 March 1905<ref>{{cite book |title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who |date=1969 |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vsYVAQAAIAAJ&q=Jal+Manekji+Cooper+FRGS&dq=Jal+Manekji+Cooper+FRGS&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT2fnEvu7bAhUKbK0KHcgGArEQ6AEILjAB |quote=COOPER, Jal Manekji, F.R.G.S., Member, British Philatelic Assoc. Ltd.; Hon. Socv.. The Empire of India Philatelic Socy. b. March 29. 1905.}}</ref> – 2 August 1972) in Mumbai was an [[India]]n [[philately|philatelist]], and an expert and authenticator<ref>[http://www.filatelia.fi/experts/namesa.html#c Cooper's authentication mark]. Filatelia.fi. Retrieved on 29 November 2018.</ref> of the [[postage stamps and postal history of India]]. Cooper was also a [[FRGS|Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society]] and the author of several philatelic handbooks. He was both a [[stamp dealer]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060604183132/http://www.stampsofindia.com/newssite/vando/trans-001.htm Philately in Transition in India]. ''Stamps of India Collectors Companion''. Part 2, Issue # 59 – 4 April 2002</ref> and a collector and was associated with philatelists like [[C. D. Desai]],<ref>Cooper, Jal; Foreword to the auction catalog: The Unique Collection of India offered by order of the Executors of the late Mr. C. D. Desai, F.R.P.S.L., Robson Lowe (London), 25 and 26 May 1949. Sale Nos. 838–841.</ref> N. D. Cooper, and [[Robson Lowe]].<br />
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Cooper is occasionally but erroneously credited with having discovered the [[Inverted Head 4 Annas]]. The 1891 reprints show that this error was already known. E. A. Smythies said the error was first discovered at a meeting of the [[Royal Philatelic Society London|Philatelic Society of London]] in 1874.<ref>[[E. A. Smythies]] (1950) [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028105908/http://geocities.com/mjshah.geo/articles/classic_error.html "A Classic Stamp Error"]. ''[[The American Philatelist]]'', pp. 59, 60.</ref><br />
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The ''Jal Cooper Philatelic Society'', in [[Varanasi]], India, is named after him and [[India Post]] issued a 10 rupees commemorative stamp in 1997 depicting Cooper and Indian [[Cancellation (mail)|postmark]]s, on the occasion of INDEPEX 97.<br />
The postage stamp on Jal cooper an important source to understand his signature contribution to this field<br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
* ''Stamps of India,'' Bombay (1942), 177 pp.; reprint: Bombay (1968).<br />
* ''Bhutan,'' Bombay (Sept. 1969)<br />
* ''Early Indian Cancellations,'' Bombay (1948) 92 pp.; reprint: Bombay (1993).<br />
* ''India Used Abroad,'' Western Printers and Publishers Press of Bombay (1950) 100 pp.; reprinted in ''India's Stamp Journal'' (1972) <br />
* ''India Used In Burma,'' Western Printers and Publishers Press of Bombay (1950) 67 pp.<br />
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