Hawaiian Missionaries (stamps)

Hawaiian "Missionaries"
Country of production	Kingdom of Hawaii
Location of production	The Polynesian Honolulu
Date of production	1851 (1851)
Nature of rarity	Few exist
No. in existence	15
Face value	Two cents
Estimated value	~£450,000.00 unused ~£225,000.00 used

The Hawaiian Missionaries are the first postage stamps of the Kingdom of Hawaii, issued in 1851. They came to be known as the "Missionaries" because they were primarily found on the correspondence of missionaries working in the Hawaiian Islands. Only a handful of these stamps have survived to the present day, and so they are amongst the great rarities of philately.