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| Keywords: Hawaiian Missionary 2c and 13c stamps on piece.jpg en Hawaiian Missionary 2c and 13c stamps on piece Hawaiian Postage 3 2c Type II right-hand position in form 13c Type I left-hand position in form used together on piece from upper left corner of a brown envelope with a few letters of address Miss A /Care of ; tied by vivid red sponge or sugar cane cancel of Honolulu red San Francisco Cal 15 Mar circular datestamp with CAL in upper case letters; the piece has been severed horizontally below stamps and rejoined the 2c has been extensively restored and repainted the 13c less so APART FROM THE UNIQUE COVER THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED USAGE OF THE HAWAIIAN 2-CENT MISSIONARY ON A PIECE OF MAIL AND THE ONLY RECORDED 2-CENT WITH THE RED FANCY CANCEL IT IS ALSO THE ONLY RECORDED 13-CENT HAWAIIAN POSTAGE STAMP USED IN COMBINATION WITH ANOTHER MISSIONARY Assuming the stamps on this piece represent the entire Hawaiian franking the only logical rate that 15c could prepay is the triple 5c Hawaiian postage Another triple-rate Missionary usage is the strip of three 13c Hawaiian Postage Missionary on a partially charred cover from the Dawson correspondence Honolulu Advertiser sale lot 29 The stamps on both the piece and the Dawson cover are cancelled by the amorphous red blob that appears on some of the known Missionary stamps This cancel unique to the Hawaiian post office has previously been identified as the Honolulu Sunburst but its true nature was unrecognized Specialists now believe it was made with the cut end of sugar cane or a sponge There is an interesting relationship between the Missionary piece offered here and the Dawson cover in the Honolulu Advertiser sale lot 29 This piece bears the San Francisco datestamp of March 15 -- although no year-date is present it is almost certainly 1852 The charred Dawson cover has part of a faint red San Francisco datestamp at lower left and a clearly struck Honolulu February 20 datestamp which is an 1852 year-date The two pieces of mail were probably postmarked in Honolulu on the same day or very close to one another The Honolulu February 20 date ties in with three 1852 sailing departure dates the Maid of Julpha cleared Feb 24 arrived Mar 22 the Eagle cleared Feb 25 arrived Mar 26 and the Noble cleared Feb 25 arrived Mar 16 Gregory Apart from these two dated pieces there are eleven off-cover Missionaries with the sponge or sugar cane cancel all 13c Hawaiian Postage stamps see Honolulu Advertiser catalogue Appendix I indicating that its use pre-dated the 13c H I U S Postage issue of April 1852 and that it was not used on 5c rate covers at all The history of this unique piece can be traced back to Henry J Duveen whose collection was sold privately through Charles J Phillips from 1922 to 1926 After the Duveen dispersal the piece found its way into Alfred H Caspary's collection Caspary though careful in his selection of philatelic material was less fastidious in his curatorship and is reputed to have kept his material in a rather haphazard fashion Several contemporary accounts confirm that Caspary carelessly placed a beverage glass on the 2c Missionary piece As the moisture condensed the thin pelure paper of the Missionaries curled and tore Caspary horrified by the consequences gave the piece back to Warren H Colson the dealer from whom he acquired it and never spoke of the matter again Colson had the stamps expertly restored and sold the piece to Philipp Kosack When the Kosack Missionaries were sold an unidentified English collector purchased the piece and after his holding was dispersed the piece became part of the Admiral Frederic R Harris collection Ex Duveen Caspary Kosack English Collection Harris and Honolulu Advertiser Colson mark at lower right Census No 1-II-PCE-14 and 3-I-PCE-133 Other census references Meyer-Harris 14; Brewster 1-II-On Piece-1 and 3-I-On Piece-2 With 1995 P F certificate Scott value for both stamps off cover with minor repairs and the usual black Hawaiian cancel is 278 000 00 http //www siegelauctions com/lot_grd php majgroup United+States cat_supgroup U S +Possessions recsperpage 10 lot_catfk 109 subgroup All realized1 realized2 sale_no srtorder 1 lot_no sdate1 01 2F01 2F1930 sdate2 01 2F01 2F2020 symbol All lotclass All syear All pfoper All pseoper All pfgrade psegrade gandor or keyword catselect eq pscolumn default pssortby sortord DESC photo calledfrom lkp author 1851 PD-Old 1851 stamps of Hawaii Henry J Duveen | ||||
