Scan or Photo Courtesy of Spink
Date
1836
Description
Ballary: 1836-56 entires or envelopes (4) and large piece, one of the entires with very fine strike of the unframed "BELLARY/POST FREE" (HG 5), the other items variously showing framed or oval types HG 9-11 (one being a framed "BELLARY/Bearing" unrecorded type); fair to fine. Photo for first.
Auction
Provenance
Derek Hammond Giles
Same office
Other recorded marks at Bellary
12 marks12 other pre-1854 postal markings of Bellary are recorded in the census. Compare their figure numbers, dates and colours to identify the mark on your cover.
- Bellary HG 1handstampBlack1806–1817
- Bellary HG 2handstampBlack1813
- Bellary HG 3handstampBlack1826–1832
- Bellary HG 4handstampRed1828–1837
- Bellary HG 6handstampRed1837–1839
- Bellary HG 7handstampBlack1840-56
- Bellary HG 8handstampRed1849
- Bellary HG 9handstampRed1841–1856
- Bellary HG 10handstampBlack1842–1858
- Bellary HG 10ahandstampBlack1853
- Bellary HG 11handstampRed1838–1849
- Bellary MN 1manuscript1832
About this record
This 1836 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Bellary HG 5 handstamp of the Madras Presidency, a mark graded “Common” in this census — the only surviving cover with this mark recorded so far. It has appeared at auction with Spink, lot 318, (Oct. 2000).