Lot
3034 
Hawaii, 1857, 5¢ blue, thin white wove paper, uncancelled four margin single on cover to Swanzey Village Mass., postmarked by remarkable bold strike of red "Honolulu, Hawaiian-Islands, May 30" cds (HON HI35) and "San Francisco Cal Jul 6 1860" transit cds with matching "SHIP" and "12" rating handstamps, Very Fine, ex-Wiltsee, Harris, Rust, Peters; with 1987 and 2015 P.F. certificate. Scott Nos. 8 Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
AN ATTRACTIVE AND RARE USE OF THE 1857 5¢ KAMEHAMEHA III SECOND PRINTING ON COVER WITH SAN FRANCISCO "SHIP" & "12" DUE MARKINGS.
Carried by British bark "Isle de France" from Honolulu departing May 30th 1860 to San Francisco arriving Jul. 4th. Entered mails with San Francisco Jul. 6th cds with 12¢ due for 10¢ transcontinental postage plus 2¢ ship fee, sent by the default overland route of the Butterfield stage via Los Angeles, El Paso and St. Louis.
References: Illustrated and discussed in Fred Gregory's Hawaii Foreign Mail to 1870 as fig. 16-74 on II-90.
Realized: $3,750