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Date
1824
Description
1824-47 Entire letters (4), part entire and a front from India to G.B, one with double ring Benares Post Paid datestamp, and an 1831 entire letter from Dublin to Nagpoor redirected to Pondicherry with oval "BOMBAY / G.P.O / POSTAGE NOT PAID". (7).
Auction
G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History, Lot 986, (2025)
About this Bodaon pre stamp cover
COV-4903 is a Bodaon pre stamp cover of 1824 bearing the Bodaon HG 1 handstamp, struck in red, recorded in the census of Bodaon postal history — the office known today as Budaun, North Western Provinces. What is a pre stamp cover?
1824-47 Entire letters (4), part entire and a front from India to G.B, one with double ring Benares Post Paid datestamp, and an 1831 entire letter from Dublin to Nagpoor redirected to Pondicherry with oval "BOMBAY / G.P.O / POSTAGE NOT PAID". (7).
Its recorded auction history runs through Argyll Etkin Limited G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History lot 986 (2025).
2 images of COV-4903 are recorded; the Bodaon HG 1 mark itself is recorded in use 1848.
Questions about COV-4903
- What is COV-4903?
- COV-4903 is a recorded pre stamp cover of Bodaon, North Western Provinces of 1824, bearing the Bodaon HG 1 handstamp in red. 1824-47 Entire letters (4), part entire and a front from India to G.B, one with double ring Benares Post Paid datestamp, and an 1831 entire letter from Dublin to Nagpoor redirected to Pondicherry with oval "BOMBAY / G.P.O / POSTAGE NOT PAID". (7).
- How scarce is the Bodaon HG 1 mark on this cover?
- The census grades Bodaon HG 1 as rare, counted from surviving recorded covers rather than estimated. The mark is recorded in use 1848.
- What is the provenance of COV-4903?
- Its recorded auction history runs through Argyll Etkin Limited G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History lot 986 (2025).
- When was COV-4903 posted?
- COV-4903 is dated 1824, within the recorded period of use of Bodaon HG 1 (1848).
About this record
This 1824 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Bodaon HG 1 handstamp of the North Western Provinces, a mark graded “Rare” in this census — the only surviving cover with this mark recorded so far. It has appeared at auction with Argyll Etkin, G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History, lot 986, (2025).