Lot 621
1893, 6¢ Green, Black Overprint, o.g., rich deep color, bright and fresh, faint vertical crease, Fine appearance; with 1957 P.F. certificate.Scott No. 66C $17,500.
AN ATTRACTIVE MINT EXAMPLE OF THE 1893 6¢ KAMEHAMEHA BLACK OVERPRINT ERROR.
Only one sheet of fifty of these stamps were ever produced. The sheet was purchased by Honolulu Postmaster General Jos. M. Oat. Six of the known examples are used and a number of mint examples were destroyed from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Realized: $7,000