16 JANUARY 2016 http://www.stampandcoin.co.ukStamp update
A Hawaiian 1852, 13c Blue, featuring an
extremely rare ‘8’ cents San Francisco rate
handstamp, was recently sold at Robert A
Siegel in the USA for $40,000. The stamp
was cancelled by a small part of a red
Honolulu datestamp at lower right and by a
nearly full strike of orange-red ‘8’ in circle.
According to the auctioneers: ‘only two
Hawaiian Missionaries are recorded with the
San Francisco “8” cents rate handstamp. This
is the only example with the completely-
struck numeral...
‘The 13c “H.I. & U.S. Postage”
Missionary... prepaid postage of two
different countries, a unique and remarkable
function in worldwide philately, and after
receiving complaints that the first “Hawaiian
Postage” 13c stamps were not being accepted
as prepayment by receiving post offices,
Postmaster Whitney revised the label to read
“H.I. & U.S. Postage.”
‘The “8” cents handstamp was applied at
San Francisco to prepaid letters to indicate
that the 6c U.S. postage and 2c ship captain’s
fee had been paid. It is usually found on the
cover itself; however, as evidenced by this
stamp and one other part-strike on piece,
the marking was inadvertently struck on
Missionaries on occasion.’SOLD FOR £26,Latest auction results
A set of the USA 1901 1c to 10c Pan American stamps, tied on gold embossed Pan-
American logo stationery by a Buffalo NY, May 1901 Pan American Exposition slogan
machine cancel, recently sold at HR Harmer. The cover also featured a Buffalo 1 May 01
duplex cancel at the bottom and a Pan Am Expo label on the reverse. According to the
auction house ‘approximately seventeen examples of all six values on first day cover have
been recorded, complete sets on one FDC from the Expo are truly scarce and only one
other cacheted FDC is known.’SOLD FOR £11,An envelope sent on 3 March, 1894, addressed to Germany bearing a France 25c tied by
a ‘Shang-hai/Chine’ CDS was recently sold by Spink in Hong Kong. The reverse of the
envelope, illustrated, featured ‘Small Dragon’ stamps in values of 1ca, 3ca and 5ca, cancelled
by strikes of a blue ‘Peking’ seal, with matching ‘I.G, of Customs/Peking’ CDS in blue,
alongside a ‘Customs/Shanghai’ CDS and ‘Ligne N/Paq. Fr. No. 5’ octagonal CDS.SOLD FOR £6,p16 Auctions.indd 16 23/11/2015 14: