The Cachet is a First Day printing but the cancel is not, it's a Ships cancel. The sender may have mailed to himself, note it's addressed to a P.O. Box or it may have been mailed
to a friend by someone that was stationed on the U.S.S. Dent. It is a First Day Cachet mailed on the date of issue. Hope my ramble makes cents
I would have thought that the government of the day would have wanted to keep quiet about annexing another sovereign state. Still no political correctness in those days.
Malcolm
The USS Dent was one of the old "4-stack" destroyers (1917).
From Wiki: "On 18 December (1934), she entered the Rotating Reserve at San Diego and tested ordnance until returning to active commission 10 June 1935. Dent operated along the West Coast and in the Hawaiian Islands until the United States entered World War II. At San Diego on 7 December 1941, she got underway the next day to screen Saratoga in her high speed run to Pearl Harbor."
-Paul
I just bought this cover from Stamporama member Bulldog:
U.S.S. Philateliphia was the flagship for the American fleet that attended the 1898 annexation of Hawaii after a coalition of American businessmen more or less forced the American government to subsume Hawaii into the the American sphere of influence.
Here's a quote from a Wikipedia article about Philadelphia's role:
"Philadelphia recommissioned 9 July 1898 and became the flagship of Rear Admiral J. N. Miller, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station. She steamed from San Francisco 2 July to participate in the ceremonies attending the assumption of sovereignty by the United States over the Hawaiian Islands. Flagship Philadelphia arrived Honolulu 3 August, and nine days hence her officers and those of the steam sloop Mohican, with a force under arms from the two warships, represented the US Navy at the ceremonies transferring the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. "
"... I would have thought that the government of the day would have wanted to keep quiet about annexing another sovereign state ..."
". . . when President William McKinley advocated annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1898, he said that "We need Hawaii as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny." On the other hand, former President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat who had blocked the annexation of Hawaii during his administration, wrote that McKinley's annexation of the territory was a "perversion of our national destiny". Historians continued that debate; some have interpreted American acquisition of other Pacific island groups in the 1890s as an extension of manifest destiny across the Pacific Ocean. Others have regarded it as the antithesis of manifest destiny and merely imperialism."
From: Wikipedia - Manifest Destiny
And why not include a Benjamin?
At this point I have all the territories from my Franklin era.
re: Territory of Hawaii first day of issue
The Cachet is a First Day printing but the cancel is not, it's a Ships cancel. The sender may have mailed to himself, note it's addressed to a P.O. Box or it may have been mailed
to a friend by someone that was stationed on the U.S.S. Dent. It is a First Day Cachet mailed on the date of issue. Hope my ramble makes cents
re: Territory of Hawaii first day of issue
I would have thought that the government of the day would have wanted to keep quiet about annexing another sovereign state. Still no political correctness in those days.
Malcolm
re: Territory of Hawaii first day of issue
The USS Dent was one of the old "4-stack" destroyers (1917).
From Wiki: "On 18 December (1934), she entered the Rotating Reserve at San Diego and tested ordnance until returning to active commission 10 June 1935. Dent operated along the West Coast and in the Hawaiian Islands until the United States entered World War II. At San Diego on 7 December 1941, she got underway the next day to screen Saratoga in her high speed run to Pearl Harbor."
-Paul
re: Territory of Hawaii first day of issue
I just bought this cover from Stamporama member Bulldog:
U.S.S. Philateliphia was the flagship for the American fleet that attended the 1898 annexation of Hawaii after a coalition of American businessmen more or less forced the American government to subsume Hawaii into the the American sphere of influence.
Here's a quote from a Wikipedia article about Philadelphia's role:
"Philadelphia recommissioned 9 July 1898 and became the flagship of Rear Admiral J. N. Miller, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station. She steamed from San Francisco 2 July to participate in the ceremonies attending the assumption of sovereignty by the United States over the Hawaiian Islands. Flagship Philadelphia arrived Honolulu 3 August, and nine days hence her officers and those of the steam sloop Mohican, with a force under arms from the two warships, represented the US Navy at the ceremonies transferring the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. "
re: Territory of Hawaii first day of issue
"... I would have thought that the government of the day would have wanted to keep quiet about annexing another sovereign state ..."
re: Territory of Hawaii first day of issue
". . . when President William McKinley advocated annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1898, he said that "We need Hawaii as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny." On the other hand, former President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat who had blocked the annexation of Hawaii during his administration, wrote that McKinley's annexation of the territory was a "perversion of our national destiny". Historians continued that debate; some have interpreted American acquisition of other Pacific island groups in the 1890s as an extension of manifest destiny across the Pacific Ocean. Others have regarded it as the antithesis of manifest destiny and merely imperialism."
From: Wikipedia - Manifest Destiny
re: Territory of Hawaii first day of issue
And why not include a Benjamin?
At this point I have all the territories from my Franklin era.