San Jose, CA Different Look Postage Due Precancel

For whatever reason, this precancel looks different from most. Maybe it's the typeface or just that its a local handstamp. In any event, can anyone help identify the style of precancel shown?




Thanks.

Very good looking example! Of a L-1E, +.10

Thanks for the ID help on this one!

I have a 1928 Rotnem precancel catalogue which is very interesting as it gives then-current population figures. Some cities were much, much smaller then than they are now. Cities in the industrial belt were large back then - for example, Pittsburgh had a population of nearly 600,000 and Cleveland had nearly 800,000. But San Jose had a population of less than 40,000 back then. Miami and Phoenix both had less than 30,000 living there. Tampa had just over 5000 people!

So, some of these cities that are now so large might be relatively uncommon on these old precancels, irrespective of catalogue values.

Ryan