Post office · North Western Provinces
JubbulporePostal Covers & Pre-1854 Postal History
Jubbulpore postal covers and handstruck postal markings of pre-1854 British India, recorded in an open census: 8 Jubbulpore handstamps recorded between 1825 and 1852, North Western Provinces, with 13 Jubbulpore covers traced to them.
- Handstamps
- 8
- Recorded
- 1825–1852
- Rare
- 1
J ubbulpore city is 616 miles from Bombay, and 784 from Calcutta in the Central Provinces, situated 23°10' N and 79°57' E. It contains a large cantonment.
Jubbulpore has 8 pre-1854 hand-struck postal markings dated 1825–1852 recorded in this census. Each figure links to its covers, rarity and provenance.
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Jubbulpore handstamp summary
All recorded markings at a glance — click any row for full details and covers.
Jubbulpore— postal history & markings
Jubbulpore's eight handstamps span 1825 to 1852, from a Central Provinces city with a large cantonment. The office worked chiefly in red, with black on three marks, opening with the common HG 1A of 1825 and settling into steady use through HG 1 and HG 2.
There is little rarity here — the marks are largely common, several noted as revised impressions of earlier dies — but that is the honest record of a busy inland cantonment doing ordinary postal work. For the collector assembling the Central Provinces, Jubbulpore is a clean, complete run rather than a source of great scarcities, and its value lies in filling the map between the larger offices.
Frequently asked — Jubbulpore postal history
- What are the pre stamp covers of Jubbulpore?
- Pre stamp (pre philatelic) covers of Jubbulpore are folded letters and envelopes that passed through the Jubbulpore post office before India's first adhesive stamp of 1854, so postage was shown entirely by hand-struck postal markings and manuscript rates. Jubbulpore was a post office of the North Western Provinces, British India, and this census records 8 distinct postal markings used there, dated between 1825 and 1852.
- How many handstamps are recorded for Jubbulpore?
- 8 hand-struck postal markings are recorded for Jubbulpore in this census, of which 1 is graded rare or better. Each mark carries its Hammond Giles catalogue figure number, colour, date range, evidence-based rarity grade, and links to every surviving cover recorded with it.
- What is Jubbulpore called today?
- Jubbulpore is the colonial-era name of present-day Jabalpur, India. Covers and postmarks are catalogued here under the historical name used on the marks themselves.
- How do I identify a Jubbulpore postmark or cover?
- Compare your cover against the reference impressions on this page — each figure shows the mark's design, ink colour and recorded date range. If your Jubbulpore cover bears a mark that matches a figure, open that figure's page to see every recorded example with provenance. If it matches none, it may be unrecorded: submit photographs through the form on this page and the editors will review it for inclusion in the census.
For background on the material itself, see the guides to the handstruck stamps of India, the pre covers of India and the pre stamp covers of India, which explain how marks like those recorded at Jubbulpore were struck, catalogued and graded for rarity.
Also searched as: Jubbulpore, Jabalpur, Jubbulpore HG 1, Jubbulpore handstruck stamps, Jubbulpore pre stamp covers, Jubbulpore postal history.
How to cite
“Jubbulpore, North Western Provinces — pre-1854 handstruck stamps & covers,” Hand Struck Stamps, https://handstruckstampsindia.com/n-w-provinces/jubbulpore (accessed 24 September 2026).
Updated: 24 Sept 2026
An unrecorded mark from Jubbulpore?
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Other post offices in the North Western Provinces
Explore the pre-1854 postal history of other North Western Provinces post offices — each page lists its recorded handstruck markings, dates and surviving covers.