Lot
1117 
Clipperton Island, 1895, 1¢-$1.00 Clipperton Island complete set, ten values, tied by purple three-ring cancels, entered mails with partial purple "San Francisco, Cal. Reg. Div., Mar 23, 1896" cds, additionally franked with 5¢ Bureau + 3¢ Columbian issues (270+232) tied by "San Francisco" registry ovals on legal-size 10¢ Columbian entire with F.M. Petersen & Co. corner card to Altona, Germany, New York transit oval backstamp and "New York" exchange label affixed over three stamps, Altona arrival backstamp; some wear and light soiling, vertical crease at center between stamps, F.-V.F., only 200 sets produced and the only cover bearing the Columbian-Clipperton Island issue combination.Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
A COLORFUL AND RARE COVER WITH AN ENTIRE SET OF THE CLIPPERTON ISLAND STAMPS USED TO GERMANY, THIS NOW BEING THE THIRD COMPLETE SET ON COVER RECORDED.
The Clipperton Island stamps where produced in March 1895 in San Francisco by the local agents of the Oceanic Phosphate Co. that was operating an important guano recovery operation on Clipperton Island, an atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,800 miles from San Francisco. They were intend for employee mail from the island and there were about 150-200 miners there at the time of issue.
Realized: $2,100