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Date
2 December 1776
Description
Postal cover from calcutta (bengal), bearing HG 3 handstamp in Black. Dated 2 December 1776. Note: Used with 1 or alone. Scarce example of postal history from this office.
Provenance
Jochen Heddergott Foster Bond
About this Culpee pre stamp cover
COV-1366 is a Culpee pre stamp cover of 2 December 1776 bearing the Culpee HG 1 handstamp, struck in black, recorded in the census of Culpee postal history — the office known today as Kulpi, Bengal Presidency. What is a pre stamp cover?
Postal cover from calcutta (bengal), bearing HG 3 handstamp in Black. Dated 2 December 1776. Note: Used with 1 or alone. Scarce example of postal history from this office.
Jochen Heddergott Foster Bond
1 image of COV-1366 is recorded; the Culpee HG 1 mark itself is recorded in use 1776.
Questions about COV-1366
- What is COV-1366?
- COV-1366 is a recorded pre stamp cover of Culpee, Bengal Presidency of 2 December 1776, bearing the Culpee HG 1 handstamp in black. Postal cover from calcutta (bengal), bearing HG 3 handstamp in Black. Dated 2 December 1776. Note: Used with 1 or alone. Scarce example of postal history from this office.
- How scarce is the Culpee HG 1 mark on this cover?
- The census grades Culpee HG 1 as 3 examples recorded, counted from surviving recorded covers rather than estimated. The mark is recorded in use 1776.
- What is the provenance of COV-1366?
- Jochen Heddergott Foster Bond
- When was COV-1366 posted?
- COV-1366 is dated 2 December 1776, within the recorded period of use of Culpee HG 1 (1776).
About this record
This 2 December 1776 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Culpee HG 1 handstamp of the Bengal Presidency, a mark with 3 examples recorded in this census — the only surviving cover with this mark recorded so far.