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RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK
RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK

RARE Leicester Hemingway New Atlantis Stamps Signed Letters and More LOOK

$ 13199.99

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

One Of A Kind Collection Of History
Leicester Hemingway and His Founded Country Off The Coast Of Jamaica NEW ATLANTIS
Brother Of Ernest Hemingway
This Lot Contains
1 Sheet 50 Centes New Atlantis Stamps (Perforated Error)
4 Sheets 100 Centes New Atlantis Stamps
1 Sheet 100 Centes Imperforate New Atlantis Stamps
1st Print Sent From Leicester Hemingway Himself
STAMPS ARE STUCK TOGETHER FROM POOR STORAGE (VIEW PICTURES)
3 Letters From Leicester To Samuel Cummings (Talking About Family and The Progress Of New Atlantis) Colorful Language
Newspaper Clippings
Family Christmas Card Of The Hemingways
LOT IS SOLD AS-IS
“There’s no law that says you can’t start your own country,” Leicester told the
Washington Post
in 1964. He was referring to the island nation of New
Atlantis, which he founded on July 4 by anchoring an 8 x 30-foot bamboo raft to an old Ford engine block in 50 feet of water eight miles southwest of Jamaica.  The site lay on a shallow ocean bank in international waters, beyond the then-customary three-mile limit of Jamaica’s territorial sea, in an area where the sea floor normally runs to a depth of 1,000 feet.
Leicester soon informed the press that he had taken possession of half the “island” on behalf of the United States government under the authority of the obscure U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856. Guano (bird excrement) was a valuable commercial fertilizer in the nineteenth century and there was something of a gold rush among Western nations to claim unoccupied areas having guano deposits during the middle part of that century. The Guano Islands Act of 1856 opened the game to U.S. citizens by authorizing them to take possession, on behalf of the U.S. government, of any unoccupied “island, rock or key” on which a guano deposit was found. The Guano Islands Act has never been repealed, rendering it theoretically available to 20th-century adventurers like Leicester Hemingway. Several U.S. territories—including Midway Island in the Northern Pacific—were originally occupied under the Guano Islands Act. Hemingway lay claim to the “unoccupied” half of his new island on behalf of the United States. He reserved the remaining half for the aspiring nation of New Atlantis.
Center, Harry Ransom. “Articles.”
Ransom Center Magazine
, 30 July 2015, sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2015/07/30/throwback-thursday-contents-of-a-country-leicester-hemingways-republic-of-new-atlantis/.