Lot 924
Guam 1899, 5¢ blue (5), tied by Spanish dotted oval and star obliterator with matching "Marianas 17 Ago" c.d.s. on cover to the Asst. Supt. of Mails at San Francisco, backstamped Manila U.S. Mil. Sta. No.1, Sept 14, and San Francisco Sept 22; edge wear at top affecting stamp, sealed opening tear at right, Fine. Illustrated in the United States Specialist, November 1974, page 500
Enclosed is a letter from Guam's Asst. Postmaster, William Coe, dated August 21: "Your request of 1 July calls for stamps into hand, but owing in the time of mails from this port your request was not complied with sooner. I enclose you the stamp less postage." .
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
Provenance: Sicking
The discrepancy between the date of the letter and that of the datestamp was perhaps due to the fact that the captured Spanish devices were unofficial and appear to have been used only philatelically. They were therefore not as strictly controlled as the U.S. devices that were used beginning on August 15.
Coe was an American Samoan who had been initially appointed temporary Governor until the arrival of the first Naval Governor, Captain Richard P. Leary, on August 7.
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