Lot 176
1903, $2 dark blue & $5 dark green (312-313), singles, used with 10¢ pale red brown (307) two singles, 50¢ orange (310) and $1 black (311) pair, tied on registered canvas wrapper from Hawaii Terr. addressed to David R. Francis at St. Louis Mo., purple "Nahiku, Ter. of Hawaii" straightline with manuscript "2/17/04" date, appropriate registry markings, St. Louis (3.22) arrival handstamps, sender's address "N.E. Lemmore, Nahiku, Hawai, Bird's Nest Fern," and; 10¢ and 50¢ faulty, Fine.
Estimate 20,000 - 30,000
ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT COVER OF THE 1902-03 ISSUE. THIS BEING THE ONLY RECORDED NON-PHILATELIC FRANKING BEARING THE 1902-03 DOLLAR VALUES, AND ALSO THE ONLY ONE FROM HAWAII TERRITORY.
THE EARLIEST DOCUMENTED USAGE OF THE 1902-03 $2 & $5 STAMPS.
Provenance: Brody
The $9.70 franking paid four hundred and eighty-one times (30lbs., 1 oz.) the 2¢ per oz. first class letter rate plus an 8¢ registry fee. The parcel was addressed to David R. Francis, the President of the Lousiana Purchase Exposition Company, and contained a tropical "Bird's Nest Fern", indicated by the sender's notation.
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