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PER "RESTLESS.", perfect bold strike of directional straightline and matching perfect strike of octagonal "Forwarded by G.B. Post & Co., San Francisco" handstamp on an immaculate blue folded letter datelined "Honolulu Oct. 16, 1854" to Charlestown Mass., carried as directed by Schooner Restless from Honolulu Oct. 28th 1854 to San Francisco arriving Nov. 17th, black "Via Nicaragua, In Advance of the Mails" oval handstamp, carried by Vanderbilt Line Uncle Sam from San Francisco Nov. 24th to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua and then by Vanderbilt Line Northern Light from San Juan del Norte to New York arriving Dec. 15th, entered the mails with U.S. 3¢ dull red (11A) horizontal pair tied by "New-York 'Ship' Dec 16" cds, Extremely Fine with extraordinary eye appeal., ex-Haas, Grunin, Jarrett, Pietsch. Estimate $20,000 - 30,000.
THE ONLY RECORDED STRIKE OF THE G.B. POST PER "RESTLESS" STRAIGHTLINE, WHICH IS THE EARLIEST RECORDED VESSEL NAME MARKING OF G.B. POST.
ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED VIA NICARAGUA COVERS ORIGINATING FROM HAWAII.
References: Illustrated in the American Philatelist (January 1943), Tracy Simpson's U.S. Postal Markings 1851-61 on p. 373, and discussed in Fred Gregory's Hawaii Foreign Mail to 1870 as fig. 20-2 on p. II-391.
Realized: $24,000