Precancel Quadrupled - Seattle Wash

Posting for your interest and comments

1926 Sc#635 3c violet Lincoln precancel Seattle Wash (quadrupled) (perf 11x10.5)

2 precancels horizontal & 2 precancels diagonal



also precancel doubled

These Seattle's are designed to show more than one city-state per stamp. So the first is a double, the second a normal single. This is an unusual precancel.

Thanks for the information

I was wondering after I posted this if what you stated was the case.

thanks

Sometimes I am confused by by roller cancels that have the appearance of precancels. How do you tell the difference between them on this stamp? The reason I ask, is that precancels of this type typically have the city, state each with their own top/bottom bars, but these examples have a single bar separating each city, state instance.

It can be confusing. The PSS catalog editors (gatekeepers) have an esoteric set of guidelines for inclusion. In some cases, the scholarship/research into whether a cancel is really a precancel was done decades ago when the cancels were current. The best generalization: if it is in the catalog now it is a real precancel, if it is not in the catalog now - it is not and will never be reconsidered.

Speaking of unusual Northwest precancels...I often get contacted through the Stamp Smarter site and this precancel was sent to me the other day


Don

I REAALLLLYYY wish that one had been left on the envelope. It would have been a spectacular cover.