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Hawaii, 1863, Numeral, 2¢ black on grayish. Plate 3-F, Type VI, Position 4. Used on inter-island cover originating from Molokai, large margin left, ample at bottom, barely touching
framelines at top and right, canceled by a couple of short pen strokes, tied by blue "Lahaina, Hawaiian Islands, Mar 2" cds (243.02, R2), addressed to Warren Goodale at Honolulu, Oahu, with offset of additional Lahaina postmark on reverse, docketing
"Ans. An. O Forbes, Condolence"; small bit of scuffing at left edge affecting postmark, part of top flap missing, Very Fine, ex-Holman, Emerson & Haas. Scott No. 16; Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
A LOVELY INTER-ISLAND NUMERAL
COVER.
Warren Goodale, born in 1826 in Marlborough, Mass., was a nephew of Lucy (Goodale) Thurston of the First Company of missionaries that arrived in Hawaii in 1820. Warren eventually made his way to Hawaii, teaching at the Royal School
with KKIV as one of his first students. He was appointed Marshall of the Kingdom in 1849 and for several months also acted as the Sheriff of Oahu before taking a position with the Interior Dept. as their Chief Clerk. Eventually appointed as Collector
General of Customs in 1853 by KKIII, he served in that position until 1863 when he returned to the East coast and enlisted to fight on the Union side of the Civil War. He was promoted to Lt. and served as a junior officer in the 114th U.S. Colored
Infantry (USCI) when it marched into Richmond, Virginia as one of the first Federal regiments to enter the Confederate capital after its abandonment. He returned to Hawaii after the war and served as the postmaster at Haiku, Maui for several
years.
Anderson O. Forbes was the resident Pastor at the Kalua'aha mission station on the island of Moloka'i, and would serve as postmaster there from 1866-1869. Their mail service was handled through the Lahaina post office, thus the pen
cancel was likely made at the Kalua'aha post office, and then the letter was transferred to Lahaina where it received the blue postmark. Westerberg, in his study of the Hawaiian numerals, showed that this iteration of plate 3 was used in early 1862.
The mention of "Condolence" in the docketing also gives a clue as to the year date, as Goodale's wife Ellen had died tragically the previous year, a week after giving birth to twins. Following his wife's passing, Warren took his three older children
and the infant twins back to Massachusetts, arranging for his brother's family to raise them there. He returned to Honolulu in late 1861 and resumed his duties as Collector General of Customs for another two years before returning to the East coast
to enlist in the Union Army. (Image1)
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