Are These A Precancel? Just Started Collecting

Rohumpy, a precancel IS a type of overprint.

Here are two stamps that would not exist except for the overprint, these were part of the U.S. special printing program of Julu of 1875.

The first printing of the 1 cent values of four departments, Agriculture, Executive, Justice, and State having been sold out, a second printing of those four stamps was made and delivered on 12 31 1875. These two printings were of 10,000 each.

Sales of two of those stamps continued to be brisk and by 1881 the 1 cent Executive was againg sold out, and a third printing of 5000 was ordered and delivered on 12 31 1881.

Six months later the supply of the 1 cent state was running low and another 5000 were ordered and delivered on 8 31 1881.

i would check out the nebraska overprint hastings precancel stamp. the nebr. overprint ink appears to me to be on top of the precancel which is not the way the stamps were made. a lot of kans and nebr fakes are out there.

John Becker, I am aware that a precancel is technically an over print, but the usage of precancel carries a specific meaning. To lump in a precancel with a hodgepodge of overprints is misleading at the least.

No, it is not misleading at all. It comes when you gain a knowledge of stamp production methods. To specifically state as you did that a stamp "is a precancel, not an overprint" is factually incorrect. Please re-read the original definition I posted from Konwiser.