Lot
45 
Honolulu, Hawaiian-Islands, May 30, remarkable bold strike of red cds on cover to Swanzey Village Mass. bearing uncancelled 5¢ blue, thin white wove (8), four margins, "San Francisco Cal Jul 6 1860" cds with matching "SHIP" and "12" rating handstamps, Very Fine, ex-Wiltsee, Harris, Rust; with 1987 and 2015 P.F. certificate. Gregory No. HON HI35 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
AN ATTRACTIVE AND RARE USE OF THE 1857 5¢ KAMEHAMEHA III SECOND PRINTING ON COVER WITH SAN FRANCISCO "SHIP" & "12" DUE MARKINGS.
Carried by British bark "Isle de France" from Honolulu departing May 30th 1860 to San Francisco arriving Jul. 4th. Entered mails with San Francisco Jul. 6th cds with 12¢ due for 10¢ transcontinental postage plus 2¢ ship fee, sent by the default overland route of the Butterfield stage via Los Angeles, El Paso and St. Louis.
References: Illustrated and discussed in Fred Gregory's Hawaii Foreign Mail to 1870 as fig. 16-74 on II-90.
Realized: $6,000