COV-1142
1 June 1832 Governor General's Headquarters Cover
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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 Governor General's Headquarters pre stamp cover
COV-1142 is a Governor General's Headquarters pre stamp cover of 1 June 1832 bearing the Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 handstamp, struck in black, recorded in the census of Governor General's Headquarters postal history, North Western Provinces. What is a pre stamp cover?
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.
Its recorded auction history runs through Spink lot 205.
2 images of COV-1142 are recorded (front); the Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 mark itself is recorded in use 1832.
Questions about COV-1142
- What is COV-1142?
- COV-1142 is a recorded pre stamp cover of Governor General's Headquarters, North Western Provinces of 1 June 1832, bearing the Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 handstamp in black. 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.
- How scarce is the Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 mark on this cover?
- The census grades Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 as rare, counted from surviving recorded covers rather than estimated. The mark is recorded in use 1832.
- What is the provenance of COV-1142?
- Its recorded auction history runs through Spink lot 205.
- When was COV-1142 posted?
- COV-1142 is dated 1 June 1832, within the recorded period of use of Governor General's Headquarters HG 1 (1832).
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.