Sale 1172 — United States Stamps and Hawaii
Sale Date — Tuesday, 19 December, 2017
Category — 1893 Provisional Government Issue, cont. (Scott 59-64)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1266
HAWAII, 1893, 5c Ultramarine, Category I Double Red Ovpt. (59d). Horizontal pair with selvage at left, left stamp the error with strong double overprint, original gum, h.r., tiny stain at lower right of error stampFINE AND EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE CATEGORY I 1893 5-CENT ULTRAMARINE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT DOUBLE OVERPRINT.
Only ten stamps in one sheet were doubly overprinted (Category I), of which eight surviving examples are reported.
Scott Retail as single error
6,500
1,600