Hawaiian Missionaries (Dawson Cover)
- Maker
- Kingdom of Hawaii (postmaster H.M. Whitney)
- Year
- 1851
- Rank
- 10 of 100
Hawaiian Missionaries (Dawson Cover)
Hawaiian Missionaries (Dawson Cover) by Kingdom of Hawaii (postmaster H.M. Whitney) (1851) is ranked 10 in the FLOAT 100 for Stamps. It sold for $2,240,000 on 1 January 2013. Hawaii's first stamps and among the most coveted classics in world philately; the Dawson Cover is the only known use of the 2c value on cover, famously rescued from a furnace.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Hawaii's first stamps and among the most coveted classics in world philately; the Dawson Cover is the only known use of the 2c value on cover, famously rescued from a furnace.
2c/5c/13c 'Hawaiian Postage' Missionaries; the Dawson Cover bears the only known 2c on cover (rarest denomination)
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $2,240,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 1 January 2013
Dawson Cover realized ~$2.24M in 2013 (chain: $25K 1957, $90K 1967, $2.09M 1995, $2.24M 2013). NOTE: figure is for the COVER. Single-stamp comp: unique unused 2c (Scott HI1) sold $619,500 at Siegel, Gross collection, Oct 2018.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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