Post office · Bombay Presidency
Khamgaum
- Handstamps
- 2
- Recorded
- 1855–1856
- Rare
- 2
Khamgaon is a city in Buldhana District,[1] Maharashtra, India. It is the largest city in the Buldhana district. It is well connected to all other big cities of Maharashtra and India through National Highway 6 and other state highways.
Khamgaum has 2 pre-1854 hand-struck postal markings dated 1855–1856 recorded in this census. Each figure links to its covers, rarity and provenance.
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Khamgaum handstamp summary
All recorded markings at a glance — click any row for full details and covers.
Khamgaum— postal history & markings
Khamgaum's two handstamps, both of 1855, are both hard to find: HG 1 is known from a single example and HG 2 is rare. A town in the Buldhana country of Berar, the office leaves a tiny record in which both marks are scarce or rarer. For the collector, that makes even this two-mark office a genuine target — a pair of elusive strikes from a single year.
Frequently asked — Khamgaum postal history
- What are the pre stamp covers of Khamgaum?
- Pre stamp (pre philatelic) covers of Khamgaum are folded letters and envelopes that passed through the Khamgaum post office before India's first adhesive stamp of 1854, so postage was shown entirely by hand-struck postal markings and manuscript rates. Khamgaum was a post office of the Bombay Presidency, British India, and this census records 2 distinct postal markings used there, dated between 1855 and 1856.
- How many handstamps are recorded for Khamgaum?
- 2 hand-struck postal markings are recorded for Khamgaum in this census, of which 2 are graded rare or better. Each mark carries its Hammond Giles catalogue figure number, colour, date range, evidence-based rarity grade, and links to every surviving cover recorded with it.
- What is Khamgaum called today?
- Khamgaum is the colonial-era name of present-day Khamgaon, India. Covers and postmarks are catalogued here under the historical name used on the marks themselves.
- How do I identify a Khamgaum postmark or cover?
- Compare your cover against the reference impressions on this page — each figure shows the mark's design, ink colour and recorded date range. If your Khamgaum cover bears a mark that matches a figure, open that figure's page to see every recorded example with provenance. If it matches none, it may be unrecorded: submit photographs through the form on this page and the editors will review it for inclusion in the census.
Also searched as: Khamgaum, Khamgaon, Khamgaum HG 1, Khamgaum handstruck stamps, Khamgaum pre stamp covers, Khamgaum postal history.
How to cite
“Khamgaum, Bombay Presidency — pre-1854 handstruck stamps & covers,” Hand Struck Stamps, https://handstruckstampsindia.com/bombay/khamgaum (accessed 25 August 2026).
Updated: 25 Aug 2026
An unrecorded mark from Khamgaum?
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