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VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE MULTIPLE OF THE HAWAII 5-CENT THIRD PRINTING ON COVER. BELIEVED TO BE A UNIQUE USAGE.
The Honolulu Advertiser collection contained a pair on cover, used with a U.S. 5c stamp (applied in San Francisco on July 20, 1864). On that cover, the pair of Hawaiian stamps included 5c prepayment of United States postage, as the cover was marked with the "Honolulu Postage Paid" datestamp. The cover offered here was franked the same way, probably intending to pay postage to destination with the Hawaiian stamps. However, the postmaster in Honolulu did not use the "Honolulu Postage Paid" handstamp, either due to error or because he thought the letter was overweight. When it reached San Francisco, the postmaster there treated the U.S. postage as unpaid and so marked it with the "Ship 6" handstamp for 3c postage plus 3c penalty for non-prepayment.
Ex Sharbaugh, Van Dyke and Pietsch. With 1977 P.F. certificate. (Image)