COV-1142
1 June 1832 Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 Cover
Scan or Photo Courtesy of Spink
Date
1 June 1832
Description
Location unknown: 1832 (1 June) entire written by Lord Bentinck, then Governor-General of India to Sir John Low at Lucknow, showing a good strike of the very rare boxed "GOV. GEN'L" with rest of date in manuscript (HG 1, 1993 supplement) and boxed "POST FREE" (HG unrecorded). A fine exhibition item of historical significance. At the time of writing Bentinck was on a tour of U.P.
Auction
Provenance
Dr. Soli Contractor Kishore Chandak
About this record
This 1 June 1832 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 handstamp of the North Western Provinces, a mark graded “Rare” in this census — one of 2 surviving covers with this mark recorded. It has appeared at auction with Spink, lot 205.