Interesting Pre-Cancels

Checked for a thread, did not see one. If one is existing I adjust with delete.

Anybody has any interesing precancels?


St. Ignatius, Montana appears on these and other precancelled stamps

Saint Ignace, Michigan was originally a mission established by Jesuit missionary and explorer Fr. Jacques Marquette, SJ at the Straits of Mackinac in 1671. He named it after St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuit Order. It was from St. Ignace that Marquette and Joliet set out two years later to cross Lake Michigan to what is now Wisconsin, and then to descend the Mississippi River until they realized it flowed into the Gulf and was not a shortcut to China. Marquette spent a couple of years in Wisconsin and Illinois and died on his way back to St. Ignace

St. Ignatius, Montana, 32 miles north of Missoula, the site of the St. Ignatius Mission, a National Historic Site, was founded in 1854 by Jesuit missionary priests, Peter DeSmet, SJ and Adrian Hoecken, SJ, who led the Kalispel Indians from the first St. Ignatius Mission in Washington to this new site in Montana. The town grew up around the mission, both of them named for the founder of the Jesuits

Precancel Type 843's (I think.) There are a lot of precancel posts in the SCF section entitled "Precancels" (right under Main Stamp Collecting Forum).

In my opinion, all precancels are interesting. They don't necessarily have to be rare or valuable. A lot can be learned from the various city and town locations, some of which no longer exist today. I have thousands of them myself. A very interesting side collection to have.

Fifia
There is a precancels thread just below the main stamp collecting forum.

Thanks but cannot find the delete button...

Those are very nice fifia. I put together some state
collections back in the 60`s and 70`s, California and
Kansas and others. I think I will get started collecting
again......Alan.

Back in the early 70`s the USPO changed the rules and let collectors obtain 10 copies of a town`s precancel. I sent a dime to the postmaster of Entiat Wa. He replied that he didn`t have any precancels.
He only used them at christmas. So he sent some from his collection!
Very nice.

I used to do the "mail in" precancels from California and Arizona. I put them away. I used to maintain an Precancel album, but have wained in doing it over the years. I still have a shoebox full of off paper precancels that I got from a dealer back in the 70's that I haven't yet sorted. I will someday no doubt. Gives me something to look forward to.