The only recorded cover bearing two copies of the 1859 Numeral Issue, 2 cent blue. The four cent franking pays the double inter-island rate. The unique franking consists of both shades of the Numeral 2 cent: the light blue (Sc. No. 13) and the dark blue (Sc. No. 13a).

The famous so-called «Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor Cover» was one of the highlights in the Davis Golden Collection of Hawaiian Postal History and Stamps. It fetched the highest price for a single item in the auction of the Golden collection!

All relevant details about this prominent item are thoroughly described in the philatelic literature.

ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING ITEMS OF HAWAIIAN PHILATELY!

2011 Philatelic Foundation certificate
Provenance: Davis Golden, 2011 (Image)

CV. Starting Price 35,000

The unique pair of folded letters WITHOUT FRANKING. The two letters are mailed from Honolulu via San Francisco and New York to France. The items are addressed: "Ruinart pere & fils" the famous Champagne producers in Reims.
Prof. Guenther Heyd (Hamburg) reported in 1957 on the reason for the lack of postage. A San Francisco newspaper reported in 1865 about a postal clerk having been transferred and dismissed due to theft of postal stamps. The young man worked on transit mail from Hawaii.
Letters coming from Honolulu were in many cases already franked with US stamps. This was done by "Forwarding Agents" in Hawaii. On arrival in San Francisco, the stamps on these transit covers were cancelled. That was the task of the supposed thief. It seems that he knew to remove the unused US stamps so well that no traces were visible. He then most likely sold the stolen stamps for cash. The thief was so ingenious that he gave the impression that the postage had been lost in the mail by the following trick. He placed little pieces of paper in size of a stamp on the places where there were stamps originally. Then he stamped the paper so it looked as though there were stamps in that place before. The fragments of the postmarks were so visible on the remaining journey of the letters. No one would question the existence of the valid postage stamps having been affixed initially.
The thief probably didn»t feel that any damage was done to the Post Office.
The San Francisco Post Office was so inefficient at the time that the citizens of the city called on President Abraham Lincoln to remove the Postmaster from power, and it is strongly suspected that these covers are evidence of this turbulent time in the city's history. A great pair of postal history covers giving a colorful insight in the Western life of the 1860ies!

Both pieces considering the gigantic postal route, in very good condition.
For further details see Charles Epting»s article in the May2016 American Stamp Dealer & Collector.
Illustrated and described in Gregory «Hawaii Foreign Mails to 1870» (Vol. II, pp. 283 - 285
Provenance : Noel
Walske (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image)

CV. Starting Price 4,500

1896 Registered 10c Entire (Blue Inside) to Germany, uprated with 1c (5; #55, four #74), 2c (2; #56), 5c (#58) all tied on U9 envelope by red Honolulu Hawaii Feb 24 1896 double circle cds (MH #274.01 R8), cover addressed to Lehe, Germany with additional strikes of red «R» [MH#701 (R4)] and «AR» [MH#705 (R4)] registry strikes, New York registry label [Scott FX-NY1b(ii)] and a red German P.O. «Rückschein» (received) handstamp partially overlap some stamps, backstamped San Francisco Mar 5, NY City 3-10 (two different) and Lehe 20.3.96, Very Fine; a colorful and rare showpiece being one of the finest used 10c Blue Inside envelopes extant. (Image 2) (Image)

CV. Starting Price 7,500

U12a, 1893 5c Blue, Double overprint, entire with clear second overprint as well as offset of double overprint on reverse, Honolulu H.I. Nov. 4 1895 duplex postmark, addressed to Oakland and forwarded to Berkeley Cal., transit and receiving strikes of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley on reverse, couple edge tears and wrinkles, light toning, still Fine, used double overprints are rare (Scott $3,000). Ex Pietsch and Golden (Image 2) (Image)

CV. Starting Price 2,500