The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-07-24
HAWAIIAN STAMPS WIN
GOLD PRIZE AT LONDON

The New York Sun says Of Hawaiian stamps owned
by Henry j. Crocker of San Francisco recently gold
cup at the London Phlateic Exhibition most COM
pee of its kind and is by $4,000 The coec
ton embraces of the stamps and
also nearly all the minor varieties including of the mis-
sonary stamps
The rarest of the last named stamp
SUED IN 1851 only two copies are known being Mr. Crockers
and the other being the British Museum $4,000
nd next to the 1886 British Guiana of which there only
known, the greatest stamp rarity the world MI
Crocker paid $3.50 for his specimen.
The stamp its
issue the Honolulu postoc destroyed by two e-
in Honolulu 'N'N' pN' '~' ~ ''e wal u '0O''
Another great rarity collection the one cent
denomination which, through oversight of printer
through the without the Il Cent the bottom There
n two specimens OF this Stamp known They valued about
OF the missionary Mr. crocker early
ether feature strip of three thirteen missionary stamps
Il believed that there another instance stamps
Some OF the missionary stamps borne by the original letters
which gives much additional value and they easily worth from
Hawaiian stamps noted among collectors many
or more which issued from 1851 1865 is held
high premium Even the stamps of Provisional
1893 held high figure being 500 apiece OF
these Mr. Cocke has strip stamps
uamarine in color mperforaed horizontally which worth
The of the first 1851 eight
all ypeset and almost in shape The design plain
m Inside of DO border Of rule was smaller square of ornamental bor
A AT the top of the rare two cent mi stamp are the words
igure
The thirteen stamps include varieties
design the foregoing that the bottom p Cents"
Cents This stamp worth about $780,
The second variety Of the Denomination the bears
1s and Gents the bottom is character resembling
dotted die and from this fact the specimen know the dice
Stamp 1t worth $1,000 In the large figure 3
The five cent missionary stamp of the general de-
ii worth in the neighborhood Of $1,000 N0"'A'0" -
It said that full set of this first issue of Hawaiian stamps
including all the varieties, is worth nearly $4,000
entirely stamps These the
trait of King Kamehameha III The thirteen variety with
s surcharged worth fully $500 1t supposed figure
was placed the stamp to show that the remained
In 1855 stamps of denomination bearing King
hameha Tvs portrait issued They Autographed in
Boston, as were those Of the 1858 issue
1850 This new issue was typeset and not so Ornamental as
those OF the first series They include many varieties
fering slightly.
They shaped the first issue the border being
Within this close up was another square of fine
rule The of the bore the word "ntersand"
Uku Leta, meaning postage AT bottom Cents"
These stamps lack quality scarcity for from their
nastc and uttractve makeup there nothing else
mend them collector Yet they eagerly sought by stamp
Many varieties Of this general design of ypeset stamps
We're issued until 1906 The ntersand stamps were used to
and 1859 all such mail carried free The
borne by the stamps written by the of the vessels
One and stamps in black and five blue
varieties these consisting slight differences principally the drop
ping 1e anebe SFs ama there ps oee Of shows nnns instead
OF these hard and quoted $50 each for the
and S45 for the cent denomination 1t said that the
original forms of both denominations Honolulu
printing Office and that number of sheets off
and sold originals.
The stamps issued from 1851 1901 those Kingdom
Hawaii The Provisional Government during
the 1893 while the 1894 have been issued by authority
the Republic of Hawaii In 1904 is said that all the dies
plates of the of Hawaii destroyed the Office of
American Bank Note Company this city there being
sides the companys officials the Hawaiian consul
Mr. Crocker the
collections the United of which placed
high S25oooo In the San Francisco
valued $4,000 OF the total of forty eight books which contain
his collection eleven destroyed having been his
time The rest were at his residence and escapd.
EARTHQUAKE coast II this be ruand