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Date
1833
Description
BOXED “KEDGREE/POST OFFICE/SHIP LETTER” MARKS ON COVERS EX PHILADELPHIA OR A SHIP TO CALCUTTA; 1830/34 pair of ELs from “Phila[delphia]” to Calcutta (the first with scarce orange-red boxed “CALCUTTA/G.P.O.” d.s. - similar to HG G8; the latter with Forwarding Agent’s endorsement) with very fine or mainly fine strikes of this Kedgeree mark; plus 1833 EL from a ship at “Sand Heads” (from an American ship leaving Calcutta) regarding the writer’s cargo of live elephants (!) with a very fine strike of the same Kedgeree mark (filing fold). Early mail from USA to India is seldom seen. (3 covers) PHOTO - see page 67
Auction
Manning, Lot 228, (Sept. 2015)
Provenance
Michael Manning
Same office
Other recorded marks at Kedgeree
14 marks14 other pre-1854 postal markings of Kedgeree are recorded in the census. Compare their figure numbers, dates and colours to identify the mark on your cover.
- Kedgeree HG 1handstampBlack1817–1820
- Kedgeree HG 2handstampBlack1821–1827
- Kedgeree HG 3handstampBlack1828–1832
- Kedgeree HG 4handstampBlack1835–1836
- Kedgeree HG 5handstampBlack1837–1842
- Kedgeree HG 6handstampBlack1846
- Kedgeree HG 7handstampBlack1838–1848
- Kedgeree HG 7AhandstampRed1844
- Kedgeree HG 7BhandstampBlack1854
- Kedgeree HG 8handstampBlack1857–1858
- Kedgeree S1handstampBlack1815–1822
- Kedgeree S2handstampBlack1822-28
- Kedgeree S4handstampBlack1836–1846
- Kedgeree S5handstampBlack1855-57
About this record
This 1833 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Kedgeree S3 handstamp of the Bengal Presidency, a mark graded “Common” in this census — one of 11 surviving covers with this mark recorded. It has appeared at auction with Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd, Manning, lot 228, (Sept. 2015).