HAWAII, 1860, 1c-3c Die Essays on Thin Pale Buff Card. Nine, including two 1c, four 2c and three 3c with no duplication, two stamp size, others large margins, some toned spots, otherwise Fine-Very Fine, in November 1860, the Postmaster General, Alvah K. Clark, wrote to John S. Marsh in Boston to order a new supply of 5c Kamehameha III stamps and inquired at the same time about the possibility of obtaining 1c and 2c stamps for inter-island use (to replace the Numerals), dies in three denominations were prepared and trial proofs were struck from the dies, but for some reason the stamps were rejected, one year later the lithographed Kamehameha IV stamp was issued

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