Precancels Help Appreciated

here are some of the precancels that I have in my kiloware purchaces.

here are some cities that I am not familiar with [for the most part]

are there any stamps of interest or value in this lot?

thanks as always.

dan

Those are nice. I don't know about value, but ill steal the Texas one... :)

Looks like a good lot to me!

The ones I tend to find are mostly for the same big cities, e.g., San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York.

There are some smaller places here that you don't see too often.

i have more from the larger cities in the lot too but would think more common.
i need to purchase more info about precancels.
it seems the books get a bit expensive.

Your Bell/Flower, Calif. is interesting one I believe it is a L-1 it would be $1.50 plus being on a high value stamp.

They are all interesting to me! The Guthrie OK books for 2$. The Bell Flower could be the 1.50 type or the 10$. The scarcer one has 15 mm between the lines, the commoner 13 mm. The others are all under a dollar, but denominations like the 13c apple green are better. Please show more!

Showing off - here is my completed album page with the two Bell Flower Calif's at the bottom.





I wish this site would increase the image size to 200K. That is a better threshold if you want to display full album pages. Or, maybe I need tutorial on posting better pix.

the bell flower is about 15 mm between the lines
i usually fine the more common ones.
this is nice to hear for a change.

i was curious about the kohler, wis stamp
i looked up the city and it seems like a small city

The Kohler WI is type PSS547, cv=0.25. Kohler has 3 types, all common. Precancels are a great budget collectable. You could assemble a hundred thousand different for no more than 0.25 each.

Chasa -- What is the organizational theory behind your page? Or do you just assemble them in order of receipt? I can't see a pattern, although that might be because of the photo -- are they alphabetical by city or something??

PS 100,000 at 25c each is $25,000 ... but I'm trying to breathe deeply while I hold onto your theory of precancels as a "budget collectable". Yeah, right!

JanS - That page is all California. Towns are in alpha order, then PSS catalog number within town. That is this typical way to mount a 'town and type' collection. I agree 25k is 25k and not a budget number. But as an advanced collector, I enjoy the fact that I can still add thousands of stamps to my collection at under 25 cents each. At last week's precancel roundup in Tampa I did just that.

Hi 'chasa',

When you mount your precancels in State, Town, and then PSS cat no. order, do you leave spaces for the 'missing' ones? If not, then what do you do when you find a precancel that needs to go into the middle of a previously completed page?

Do you append it, or insert and re-hinge all the others that follow? Or something else....

My album pages have been made over past years, some I bought [in 1985] from collectors before me. Spaces were left for all the listed types so blank spaces occur all over. Even in an advanced collection is is uncommon to see a completed page for all listed types. In the 1970's and 80's, many new types were being released so album pages made in that era will not have the newer styles. Even today, an occasional new type is discovered and catalog-listed. I have not remounted but I keep a blank page or pages at the back of each state to accomodate the 'newcomers'.