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Sale 65: The Gary Peters Collection of Hawaii

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San Francisco Forwarders

Lot 28    

PER ' SPITFIRE APRIL 18, bold strike of directional straightline and matching sharp strike of octagonal "Forwarded by G.B. Post & Co., San Francisco" handstamp on an immaculate light blue 1855 folded cover from Havre, France to the French Consulate at Honolulu, Hawaii, blue "Winslow & Co., Havre" sender's cachet, cover was sent under cover or privately to San Francisco, carried as directed by American Ship Spitfire on Apr. 18th 1855 to Honolulu arriving May 1st, Extremely Fine, ex-Sharbaugh, Pietsch.
Estimate    $20,000 - 30,000.

THE ONLY RECORDED STRIKE OF THE G.B. POST PER "SPITFIRE" STRAIGHTLINE.

This cover was likely sent under cover or privately from France by transatlantic steamship to New York City, then by USMSC "Illinois" departing Mar. 20th to Aspinwall arriving Mar. 29th, After crossing the isthmus on the new railroad, the New York mail was loaded aboard the PMSS "Golden Gate" on Apr. 1st to San Francisco arriving Apr. 12th. Letter was turned over to G.B. Post who placed it on the only sailing of the American Clipper Ship "Spitfire" to Hawaii arriving May 1st. She sailed the following day, May 2nd, to Hong Kong and never returned to Hawaii. The American Clipper Ship "Spitfire" was listed at 1,549 tons and commanded by J.W. Arey.

References: Illustrated and discussed in Fred Gregory's Hawaii Foreign Mail to 1870 as fig. 20-23 on p. II-391.

Realized: $23,000

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