COV-2455
5 July 1823 Bangalore HG 2 Cover
Scan or Photo Courtesy of Santosh MS
Date
5 July 1823
Description
1823 Bangalore – London entire via Cape route, with Bangalore Giles 2 "Post Paid/Bangalore" despatch handstamp, rate "As 6 to Madras" (6A rate was valid for single letter not exceeding 1 Tolah, between 200 to 300 miles, distance of Bangalore – Madras was 218 miles) applied in manuscript. At Madras, Giles MX3 "MADRAS/8 MR 8/1823" GPO receipt & Giles SD8 "MADRAS/G.P.O./8 MR 8/1823/SHIP LETTER" transit mark applied. Sent bearing from India to the UK via the Cape route, entered there via Dover port & there "INDIA LETTER/DOVER" transit handstamp applied & sent to London. At London "1/8" (comprising 1s 4d Dover–London double-letter inland postage + 4d India concessional rate incoming sea postage) bearing postage & "D/5 JY 5/1823" GPO receipt mark applied. Bearing 1s 8d collected from the recipient.
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Other recorded marks at Bangalore
18 marks18 other pre-1854 postal markings of Bangalore are recorded in the census. Compare their figure numbers, dates and colours to identify the mark on your cover.
- Bangalore HG 1handstampBlack1800
- Bangalore HG 3handstampBlack1823
- Bangalore HG 4handstampBlack1823–1825
- Bangalore HG 5handstampBlack1823–1837
- Bangalore HG 6handstampRed1826–1838
- Bangalore HG 7handstampRed1830–1865
- Bangalore HG 8handstampBlack1832
- Bangalore HG 9handstampRed1837–1857
- Bangalore HG 9ahandstampRed1855
- Bangalore HG 10handstampBlack1849–1855
- Bangalore HG 11handstampRed1840-53
- Bangalore HG 12handstampBlack1848-61
- Bangalore HG 13handstampRed1854
- Bangalore HG 14handstampRed1853–1859
- Bangalore HG 15handstampBlue1848–1861
- Bangalore HG 16handstampBlue1848-61
- Bangalore HG 17handstampBlue1851–1861
- Bangalore HG 18handstampRed1855–1857
About this record
This 5 July 1823 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Bangalore HG 2 handstamp of the Madras Presidency, a mark graded “Common” in this census — one of 34 surviving covers with this mark recorded.