Scan or Photo Courtesy of Kishore Chandak
Date
1852
Description
1852 : Entire folded letter from Marseille, France to Coringhy, redirected to Injeram then to Cocanada and back to Injeram via Bombay, handstamped with ‘MARSEILLE/9/OCT/52' double circle red despatch stamp. Also stamped with 'BOMBAY/NO 6 1852/STR-POSTAGE 8/INLD. DO. 10' - value in script - unframed in black - GILES TYPE SR6 RECEIPT STAMP, 'INJERAM/17-11-52/BEARING' - DATE IN SCRIPT - UNRECORDED IN BEARING BY GILES & RECORDED AS 'INGERAM' NOT 'INJERAM' in this cover, 'COCANADA/18 - 11-52/BERAING' - DATE IN SCRIPT - GILES TYPE SUPPLEMENT - 2 and another 'INJERAM/22-11-52/BEARING' - bearing stamp in black UNRECORDED BY GILES, along with, 'BOMBAY/G.P.O./JA13/1853' unframed black Bombay G.P.O. stamp - GILES TYPE G4. And boxed 'P.P.' cachet in red. VERY SCARCE INCOMING MAIL.
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Other recorded marks at Ingeram
4 marks4 other pre-1854 postal markings of Ingeram are recorded in the census. Compare their figure numbers, dates and colours to identify the mark on your cover.
About this record
This 1852 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Ingeram HG 5 handstamp of the Madras Presidency, a mark graded “Common” in this census — the only surviving cover with this mark recorded so far.