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Sale 65: The Gary Peters Collection of Hawaii

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Hawaiian Postal History

Lot 8    

Forwarded by Bush & Co., Lahaina, bold strike of red truncated box handstamp on incoming gray folded letter datelined "San Francisco, Decr. 2. 1850" from Charles Brewer 2nd to Mess. J. Makee or J.A. Anthon at Honolulu, a strip of three 10¢ 1847 stamps was removed from the cover as they had been fraudulently added causing some slight waterstaining of little importance, F.-V.F., an important cover.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THIS BUSH & CO. LAHAINA FORWARDERS HANDSTAMP.

At the height of the Gold Rush, there was a heavy volume of vessel traffic between Lahaina and San Francisco, and any one of several ships might have brought this letter to Hawaii. A likely choice is the American schooner "Cynosure" departing San Francisco Dec. 2nd to Lahaina arriving Dec. 25th. Bush & Co. forwarded this letter to James Makee or Jules Anthon by giving it to the captain of an interisland schooner.

References: Illustrated and discussed in Fred Gregory's Hawaii Foreign Mail to 1870 on p. II-358, fig. 19-9.

The two recorded strikes of the Bush & Co. Lahaina handstamp:
1. 1850 Jul. 26, "Ship Abigail at Sea" dateline to Makee Anthon, Honolulu. ex-Tows, Van Dyke.
2. 1850 Dec. 2, San Francisco Cal. to Makee Anthon, Honolulu, the cover offered here.

Realized: $1,900

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