Hawaii #39, Paauilo 282.011 (rarity 7) CDS in red ink, 9 December (1893)

Item Specifics

Country

United States - Hawaii

Catalog Number

39

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

Used

Stamp Format

Single

Year of Issue

1882

Item Description

This item is a Hawaiian stamp issued in 1882, listed as Scott  #39.  This stamp was cancelled at the Pa`auilo post office on the island of Hawai`i, with a Meyer-Harris type 282.011 cancel. This cancel is a rarity 7 on the Meyer-Harris scale, meanind that between 1000 and 2000 examples are thought or known to exist. It has a date of 9 December, year not shown.

HOWEVER, this example is applied in red ink. Red is, in general, an unusual colour for Hawaiian cancels. Literature notes that the dated strikes of this cancel are seen in the year 1893. Red ink cancels in other settings are more typical of registered mail, but for a "country" post office, it seems to have been more of a random and seldom seen occurrence.

The history of the stamp is as follows:

This stamp shows the portrait of King Kamehameha V, the final monarch of Hawai`i’s 600-year old Kamehameha dynasty until he died in 1872.  This design was the only 5-cent stamp issued by the Kingdom’s post office with a portrait of a person—other values, particularly the 2-cent value, changed with the reigning monarch.  When this design was first issued in 1866 in bluish-green (Scott #32), it paid the letter rate for letters sent to the United States, and following Hawai`i’s admission to the Universal Postal Union in 1882, it once again paid the basic UPU letter rate.  The design was reissued in ultra (Scott #39) rather than bluish-green.

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Yes

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Must be returned within 14 days in original condition. Money back, less shipping, no questions asked. Buyer pays return shipping.