Brooxlyn, NY Precancel City Name Error?

First of all, this is not my precancel, but I was just scanning an auction lot of precancels that included this one in the mix and it caught my eye. Is there a variety known with this city name error of "BROOXLYN" rather than "BROOKLYN"? Is it of any notable value or merely a freak?



Just curious, as I have not seen this one before. Thanks.

sort of like a combination of the Bronx and Brooklyn? Really strange how careless the type-setter was with all these errors your finding ya know? I'd be curious to know if these are mentioned in Scott's and also if these were counterfeited or manipulated regular postage? Just a though as I know absolutely zilch about these, although I receiving about 200+/- in the next few days so I might be taking a crash-course in these! Good luck wt1. -Jay

This error is not listed in any guide book I have, but I don't have them all.
My error catalog was last revised on 5/86.

Thanks. Just thought it to be an interesting "error" that I hadn't come across before.

Apparently this error may be more common than we think. I just took this image off of a long closed ebay listing from another country that shows the same error in only one position of a block of 4 stamps and on a different series and denomination of stamps altogether:

Isn't the 3c example just bad inking? If you fill in the missing "dot" where the white shows through, it looks to me like you get a straight line, as for the spine of the K, not a malformed X.

Looking back at the 8c, isn't this just the same thing? I don't think it really looks like an X on the left side, just a bit of missing ink, similar to what is missing in the first O?

It looks like an 'X' to me!

They both look like "X" to me.

After posting this thread, I went through several packets of unsorted NY precancels I had and came up with my own copy of the "BROOXLYN" error. Unforutnately, my copy is severely creased.

Nevertheless, I attempted to scan it in high resolution next to a normal "BROOKLYN" Type 61 precancel. The result is below. You can judge for yourself.



In my opinion, if you really look closely at the open space between the top of the "K" and "X" you can see a very subtle difference in the space which confirms that a different letter is shown.

What puzzles me is that if this is such a common "error" why is it not listed as such in the catalog of errors that warrehouse mentioned in an earlier post?

"Brooxlan" isn't that that "little area" where "Da Bronx" and Brook-Lyn" meet. Also known as Queens.

like: Dumbo, Tribeca, SOHO, NOHO, etc.

It's a New Yaw-k thing!

For the non New Yorkers, yes, this is a joke.