COV-854
12 July 1819 Moradabad HG 1 Cover
Scan or Photo Courtesy of Kishore Chandak
Date
12 July 1819
Description
1819: H.G.1 : A letter sent in 1819 from an officer, H. Wood to CALCUTTA and on despatch it was endorsed "On the Service"& was stamped with a black previously unrecorded "MORADABAD / POST FREE" despatch mark. The cover was countersigned by the writer to certify the free postage entitlement. Since the discovery of this example, two more covers have been found with the same stamp in 1976, but no others.
Auction
Provenance
Derek Hammond Giles
Same office
Other recorded marks at Moradabad
4 marks4 other pre-1854 postal markings of Moradabad are recorded in the census. Compare their figure numbers, dates and colours to identify the mark on your cover.
About this record
This 12 July 1819 pre stamp cover of British India bears the Moradabad HG 1 handstamp of the North Western Provinces, a mark with 5 examples recorded in this census — one of 5 surviving covers with this mark recorded. It has appeared at auction with Spink, lot 193, (Oct. 2000).