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Hawaii - Hawaiian Autographs and Historic Documents

Lots 3024-3033 Lots 3034-3037

Lot 3034

Hawaii, Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company, 1883 stock certificate for two shares, manuscript canceled, with certificate stub affixed at left; fold and light toning, Very Fine.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $130

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Lot 3035

Hawaii, Hawaiian Documents including Embossed Seals, 1851-1905, small group of 5 documents including 1851 document signed "J.L. Waihili" as Kakauolelo, 1868 mortgage deed with green embossed Royal Stamp crown seal and signed by Chas. H. Wetmore, D.B. Lyman etc., 1889 indenture with blind embossed crown seal and signed by F.S. Lyman, Chas. H. Wetmore, C.R. Richardson, W.D. Alexander etc., 1905 Hawaii Terr. Police Officer's Commission with large gold embossed seal, etc., F.-V.F., a scarce group.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $575

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Lot 3036

Hawaii, Hawaiian Prints and Books, group of 6 items and 4 books, including circa 1856 9x 12" "Map of the Hawaiian Islands" by G.P. Putnam & Co., four different original Cook book copperplate prints including "A Canoe of the Sandwich Island", "A View of Karakakooa in Owyhee" and "A Man of the Sandwich Islands Dancing", books include "American Expansion in Hawaii 1842-1898", and original "Missions of the American Board, Sandwich Islands" by Anderson 1870 (includes engraving of Kamehameha III), etc., F.-V.F.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $650

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Lot 3037

Hawaii, "Waikoekoe, Hamakua - Hawaii", original 13"x 20" hand-drawn map from the Great Mahele period by C. J. Lyons dated "Nov. 1853" and framed in beautiful koa wood, accompanied by two Documents Signed "C.J. Lyons" with one headed "Hela 9926 Luhi / Waikoekoe, Hamakua, Hawaii" and other "Helu 9927 Loua / Keaa, Hamakua, Hawaii", each with small land parcel drawings; some folds, F.-V.F.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

This map was found in a found in an archive of Davey’s Sugar Mill office locked away for over 75 years. C.J. Lyons was Hawaiian Assistant Surveyor under W.D. Alexander and the official surveyor of the Hamakua coast for the Mahele. He assisted in early triangulations on Maui and Hawaii, and later with meteorological problems initiating a Meteorological Service in 1900 and regular rainfall reports.

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Lots 3024-3033 Lots 3034-3037

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