Lot
329 
Clipperton Island, 1895, 1¢-$1.00 Clipperton Island complete set, ten values, tied by purple three-ring cancels, entered mails with purple "San Francisco, Cal. Reg. Div., Apr 28, 1896" cds bearing 3¢ and 6¢ Bureau issues ties by "San Francisco" registry ovals on legal-size 4¢ entire with F.M. Petersen & Co. corner card to Hamburg, Germany, New York (5.4) transit oval backstamp and "New York" exchange label affixed, Hamburg (5.14, 5.15) arrival backstamps; some wear and light soiling, vertical crease at right between stamps, F.-V.F., only 200 sets produced. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
A COLORFUL AND RARE COVER WITH AN ENTIRE SET OF THE CLIPPERTON ISLAND STAMPS USED TO GERMANY, ONLY TWO COMPLETE SETS ON COVER RECORDED.
The Clipperton Island stamps where produced in March 1895 in San Francisco by the local agents of the Oceanic Phosphate Co. that was operating an important guano recovery operation on Clipperton Island, an atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,800 miles from San Francisco. They where intend for employee mail from the island and there were about 150-200 miners there at the time of issue.
Realized: $2,300