Lot
3012 
Hawaii, 1853, 5¢ blue, thick white paper, margins huge showing small portions of adjacent stamps to just in at bottom right, canceled by red grid handstamp on 1855 cover to New London, Ct., with matching "Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, July 3" cds, "San Francisco, Cal., Aug 1" cds with straight line "Ship" and "12" rate handstamps; partial backflap and trivial faint vertical file folds, Very Fine, ex-Krug & Golden; signed Ashbrook, with 1958 P.F. certificate. Scott Nos. 5 Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
A LOVELY EXAMPLE OF THE 1853 5¢ KAMEHAMEHA III ISSUE PREPAYING HAWAIIAN POSTAGE ON COVER TO THE UNITED STATES.
Carried aboard the bark "Yankee", which departed Honolulu July 3rd 1855 and arrived in San Francisco on July 28th. It was then sent via Panama on the "Golden Age". (Gregory census no. 5-11).
Realized: $2,700