Hi all, I've been trying to learn more about precancels...full time job! anyway, I've searched online for info regarding this Rochester NY precancel. I've found 2 (different stamp)selling on ebay for quite a bit, both precancels were discribed as rare. Although in our archives Rochester is discribed as common. Does rarity depend on the particular stamp as well?
I don't know about the actual precancel (nice one by looks) but on ebay the use of the word Rare is sometimes only a draw for bidders to loosen their purse strings and bid freely of their wealth. Doesn't mean it is actually rare, no.
Any extra descriptive words are sometimes (mostly) the personal opinion of the seller.
thanks guys...I'm learning to take much of what I see with a grain of salt! Makes me appreciate SCF all the more! It's great to know I have such a resource!
Rarity does depend on the underlying stamp. The rare Rochester precancel is on Scott 1303 the 1965 4-cent coil stamp. The mirror image is not really mirror. They are two diffferent typefaces. The left is called a DLE, locally applied here in Rochester. The right is a bureau issue - the precancel applied in WashDC at the time the stamps were printed. Both very common.
Left stamp is PSS Type 247; Right Stamp is PSS Type 61 (and the third stamp in my previous scan is a PSS Type 43). Many different precancel varieties exist all from the same city.
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Posted 01/01/2012 10:52 pm
