HAWAII, Honolulu U.S. Postage Paid Apr. 25. Clear strike of red circular datestamp on cover to Mr. Gethro Ripley in Edgartown Mass., with original enclosure datelined “On board the ship Erie at Lahaina, Sandwich Is., April 8th 1860”, red “San Francisco Cal. 12 Paid May 21, 1860” integral-rate circular datestamp (latest recorded use of this marking according to Gregory, see Fig. 16-45), interesting whaling content, enclosure with some scotch tape reinforcement, cover with tiny edgewear, Very Fine, written on board a whaling ship off the coast of Lahaina, carried on the Francis Palmer, which departed Honolulu May 1 and arrived in San Francisco May 19, then by overland stagecoach leaving May 21

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