HAWAII, Forwarded by H. Hackfield & Co., Honolulu H.I. Two 1864 covers to Rheims, France, each with clear strike of oval forwarder’s handstamp, “Honolulu U.S. Postage Paid” Jul. 20 and Jul. 9 circular datestamps, both with crayon “32c” rates (one red, other blue), appropriate transit markings, unfortunately stamps missing from both, but still Very Fine and unusual, the Jul. 9 cover (shown above) carried on the Smyrniote to San Francisco and sent overland to New York where mistakenly bagged with closed mail to Prussia, on arrival it received an “Aachen Franco” boxed datestamp but the error was noticed and the letter was returned to New York where it received the 36c credit datestamp in error, this was then overstruck by the 18c credit datestamp (also incorrect but not corrected), it was then carried by the Cunarder Persia and eventually reached France in October, the second cover must have been held in San Francisco as it reached New York Oct. 8 (almost two months after arrival in San Francisco), a wonderful pair of covers, illustrated and described in the Gregory book (Vol. II, pp. 283-285), ex Noel

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