No Longer Available - GB 1897 SG201 Cover to Honolulu

Stock Code: P178003032

1897 Overseas Mail. Very fine double rate cover to Captain A. Mostyn Field R.N. Post Office, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). Prepaid by two 2½d "Jubilee" tied by Dorking "257" duplexes AP.20.1897. Routed via "Van Couver" with a Honolulu arrival datestamp on reverse for MY.16.1897. Some minor soiling and part cover backflap lost nevertheless an extremely rare destination item.
Captain Mostyn Field of the Royal Navy Survey ship HMS Penguin was surveying the islands of the western pacific for the routing of a proposed new telegraphic cable with a secondary objective to deliver the "Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society" to Funafuti (Vanuatu archipelago) to test Charles Darwins' hypothesis for the formation of coral atolls.

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