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Date
1794
Description
India, Berhampore, 1794, "BERHAMPORE/POST PAID" Two-Line Handstamp (Giles 1a, 2000 Supplement). Faint but legible strike on cover written and addressed in Armenian, with 1794 year date docketing, faint manuscript "2a" rate marking, cover heavily toned causing paper to be brittle and with splitting along folds, about Fine, quite possibly the only recorded example of this postal marking known
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Other recorded marks at Berhampore
8 marks8 other pre-1854 postal markings of Berhampore are recorded in the census. Compare their figure numbers, dates and colours to identify the mark on your cover.
About this record
This 1794 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Berhampore HG 1a handstamp of the Bengal Presidency, a mark graded “Rare” in this census — the only surviving cover with this mark recorded so far. It has appeared at auction with Auktionen Gaertner, Asia Auction No.21, lot 1053, (6 February 2012); Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Sale 9020, lot 10011.