Other than upside down is this actually a precancel possible end or is it just an actual town cancel. Perfs are all wacky and if a pre cancel I didn't know they actually had a closed end.
Not a precancel, but a box cancel that has the city/state name indicated inside a "box". These were very popular in their day for cancelling parcels and large packages. They are often mistaken for a precancel but generally if you can see a vertical line in the cancel, it's a box cancel rather than a precancel.
In addition to coil machine precancels - there is a short list - only 25 - of precancels that look like boxes or partial boxes. Anything else is undoubtedly a box roller or handstamp post cancel. The list, cut and pasted from the PSS Town & Type catalog: http://home.roadrunner.com/~adrion/pssboxes.docx
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Posted 03/21/2013 6:38 pm
, you will have a faux-precancel no one can identify.
