Philadelphia Type 230

I have a ton of precancels that look like the one below and which I have always assumed are the dirt-cheap Type 230.



Now I am organizing Philly, I measured one of my stamps against the catalog image and found that the stamps I own have lines that are way closer together than 230.

The nearest I can find to match my stamps is L-46 HS. But that is 75c per stamp so it seems very unlikely that my tens or a hundred stamps are actually that type.

Is the catalog misprinted for Type 230? Or what am I doing wrong?

PS Now I look at them again, I see that L-46 HS is block letters and Type 230 is serifed. And mine are serifed. So that puts me back to they must be 230, but somehow the lines are narrower than shown in the book? Thanks.

Here's the stamp and the catalog image, for those not familiar:

Sorry I do not know, but it will be very interesting to know
as I am still learning the analasys of precancels.

Does the description of type 230 provide a range of distances between lines?

Robert

Good thought, but no. It just says 12 mm and as it's an electroplate, they don't usually vary much. Just that if the printing is faint, the bars can look further apart because you can't see the full width. But they don't really move, unlike vinyls or hand stamps. And then of course mine are closer together, not further apart.

I asked a friend off-line and he assures me that sometimes a) different plates did have slightly different widths and b) within a plate, sometimes certain positions could have different widths.

It still looks like a BIG difference, to me, for something that is supposed to be the same Type, but I am filing them under T-230.