HAWAII, 1857, 5c on 13c Dark Red (7). Type I (Clark) numeral, full margins to barely touching the frameline at bottom right, lightly-struck San Francisco circular datestamp cancel leaves the full design visible

VERY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE SOUND USED EXAMPLE OF THE 1857 5-CENT ON 13-CENT PROVISIONAL SURCHARGE.

The 5c provisional surcharge was necessary due to a shortage of 5c stamps just after the transition from Postmaster Whitney to Jackson. Most were made by Jackson's clerk, Alvah Clark, around the start of 1857. New supplies of the 5c stamp (Scott No. 8) were received at the end of June 1857.

This issue is very rare as a sound used stamp off-cover. A review using Power Search reveals that the last sound off-cover examples we offered were in our 2011 sale of the Golden collection. Every other example we have offered in the last ten years has had a fault.

With 1977 and 2008 P.F. certificates

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