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Date
2 March 1838
Description
1838: H.G. H.G.2: Letter from LUCKNOW [2 Mar.] to SAUGOR. Postage prepaid at LUCKNOW The "LUCKNOW / POST PAID" above, measuring 51 mm x 34 mm, was impressed in black during 1809-1835, and probably up to Sept. 1837, when the Post Office Act, 1837 came into force. From that time, the LUCKNOW Post Office should have introduced an "ALL INDIA" type of stamp, as specified in the Act. Instead, a new stamp resembling the 1809-1835, stamp, but measuring 49mm x 32 mm, was introduced, and applied in red ink. The Stamp impressed on this cover on 2nd March 1838.
Auction
Provenance
Kishore Chandak Derek Hammond Giles
Same office
Other recorded marks at Lucknow
15 marks15 other pre-1854 postal markings of Lucknow are recorded in the census. Compare their figure numbers, dates and colours to identify the mark on your cover.
- Lucknow HG 1handstampBlack1809–1835
- Lucknow HG 3handstampBlack1833
- Lucknow HG 4handstampBlack1835–1836
- Lucknow HG 5handstampRed1842–1845
- Lucknow HG 5ahandstampRed1841
- Lucknow HG 5bhandstampRed1837
- Lucknow HG 6handstampBlack1844–1847
- Lucknow HG 7handstampGreen1846
- Lucknow HG 8handstampRed1844–1849
- Lucknow HG 9handstampBlack1845
- Lucknow HG 10handstampBlack1849–1855
- Lucknow HG 11handstampRed1849
- Lucknow HG 12handstampBlack1852-54
- Lucknow HG 12AhandstampBlack1853
- Lucknow HG 13handstampRed1838–1854
About this record
This 2 March 1838 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Lucknow HG 2 handstamp of the North Western Provinces, a mark with 3 examples recorded in this census — one of 3 surviving covers with this mark recorded. It has appeared at auction with Spink, Giles, lot 398, (Oct. 2000).