Oriental Fire and Insurance Company 
This stamp is incompletely perforated. The imprints, which can be best seen on the back of the stamp read:-
ORI
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AL
and is from the Oriental Fire and General Insurance Company of Bombay.
Life Insurance was introduced into India in 1880 with the establishment of the Oriental Life Assurance Company in Calcutta. It was subsequently renamed the Oriental Fire and General Insurance Company. In 1956 it was nationalized under the Life Insurance Company of India when all life assurance programs were brought under government control. Today it is one of four major subsidiaries of the General Insurance Corporation of India. In 1994 its name was changed to the Oriental Insurance Company.
National Bank of India, Calcutta
The National Bank of India first opened in Calcutta in 1863. Over the intervening years its business expanded with branches in Asia and East Africa. In 1958 it merged with Grindlays Bank of Britain to form the National & Grindlays Bank. Today it is part of the Standard Chartered Bank Group.
NBI - Calcutta. Picture by E Lorenz
Reproduced by permission of Harappa
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