Census of 2c Hawaiian Missionary (Scott HI1)

1-II-UNC-1
Sound

Notes:

• few spots of blue printer’s ink on back, completely sound
• Meyer-Harris census no. 8
• Brewster census no. l-II-Unused-l
• L. N. Williams, Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps, Vol. I, pp. 137-139
• ANPHILEX 1971 Invited Exhibits (Honolulu Advertiser)
• World Stamp Show 2016 Court of Honor (Gross)

Provenance:

• Gaston Leroux (reported to have been owned by Leroux in the 19th century and sold to Ferrary)
• Alfred J. Ostheimer III (bought privately from Weills and sold privately through Weills to Twigg-Smith, circa 1970)
• 6/23/1921, Philipp von Ferrary (also Philip Ferrari de La Renotière), Hotel Drouot, Paris, supervised by M. G. Gilbert, to Burrus, Sale 1, Lot 56
• 5/27/1963, Maurice Burrus, H. R. Harmer sale, to Weills for Phillips, Lot 160
• 1968, Benjamin D. Phillips (collection sold privately to Weills)
• 11/7/1995, Siegel Auction Galleries, The Honolulu Advertiser Collection, Sale 769, Lot 11, Realized $600,000, Thurston-Twigg Smith (collection owned by Honolulu Advertiser newspaper and Persis Corporation family holding company) Honolulu Advertiser (Persis)to Walter J. Mader (bidding for Greg Manning)
• 6/2/1997, Ivy & Mader PACIFIC ‘97 auction, to William H. Gross, Lot 1063
• 10/3/2018, William H. Gross Collection, Siegel Auction Galleries, United States Stamp Treasures: The William H. Gross Collection, Sale 1188, Lot 106, Realized $525,000

Certificates:

• PF 297010 (1995) it is genuine