Hawaiian Numberals: A Compilation of Unofficial Data Relating to the Type Set Stamps of the Kingdom of Hawaii, with a Short History of the Lithographed and Engraved Stamps Ordered from the United States During the Years from 1851 to 1866, Showing Their Relation to Orders for the Local Printings, and in Addition an Article, with Evidence that the So-called Reprints Or Reissues of the 5 Cent and 13 Cent 1853 Type Were Regularly Ordered by Postmaster General David Kalakaus, Afterward King of Hawaii |
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1st printing 5-cent stamps A. P. Brickwood August black on greyish black on white blue on bluish blue on white Boston cancelled Catalogue collectors copy David Kalakaua deep grey blue ELUA engraved and perforated evidently February February 24 Government Printing Office Grand Gold Medal grey white greyish Cliche H. M. Whitney Hawaiian Islands Hawaiian Numerals HAWAIIAN POSTAGE Hawaiian stamps Honolulu Postoffice illustration Irwin Joseph Jackson Kamehameha IV KINGDOM OF HAWAII Lahaina laid paper large central letter light blue lithographed stamp March March 31 Missionary stamps Moens NTER Philately placed Plate IIC Polynesian Postage Stamps Postmaster-General Postoffice 20 sheets Printed with vertical printer PRINTING-Issued reprints San Francisco sent sheets of 25 shows Stamps of Hawaii stamps were printed Stanley Gibbons surcharge type-set Numerals UKU LETA United States postage United States Postmaster vertical rows vertical strips white laid WHITE WOVE PAPER words INTER ISLAND