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All Forums Category: World Stamps and Covers Discussions Forum: World Modern Stamps Mint and Used

Are These USA Precanceled Stamps?

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Posted 08/12/2018 11:21 pm

I guess the first to the left is regular precanceled, with a town and state name.
What about the one in the middle? What does empty cancellation mean?
The one on the right - it's not a town and state. What is it?
Thanks for any info.
Rob

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United States

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Posted 08/13/2018 12:03 am

all are considered precancels... all of the overprints were applied at the BEP when manufacturing the stamps.

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Israel

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Posted 08/13/2018 12:22 am

The middle one is an overprint too? Or simple cancellation that happened to look alike?

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United States

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Posted 08/13/2018 01:13 am

Check for tagging on them to be certain...no tagging means precanceled.

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Australia

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Posted 08/13/2018 01:59 am

This article should cover all your questions:

www.stampnewsonline.net/StampNewsOnline-PW/.../YIU_1211_AmericanaMusic.pdf

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Israel

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Posted 08/13/2018 02:17 am

What are tagging?
And the link doesn't seem to work for me.

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United States

8956 Posts

Posted 08/13/2018 08:16 am

Tagging is an additional "color" applied to a stamp in order to make it visible to an automatic cancelling device. Please use the search function on this page to learn more about it

Peter

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Edited by Petert4522 - 08/13/2018 12:40 pm

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Posted 08/13/2018 11:27 am

Google "Tagging (stamp) - Wikipedia" for a good, short explanation.

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Posted 08/13/2018 12:22 pm

Glossary is at upper left of every screen.
Don

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United States

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Posted 08/13/2018 7:26 pm

A peek at the Scott US Specialized catalog finds that the 8.4c (Sc# 1615C) had 145 different Bureau precancels in 144 cities plus the bars-only "silent" precancel. The 7.9c (Sc# 1615) had 103 different Bureau precancels in 107 cities plus two different CAR-RT SORT (Carrier Route Sort) varieties.

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Israel

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Posted 08/14/2018 02:54 am

Thanks, dkabq8, that was the most precise info I needed. And thank you all the rest.

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Posted 08/14/2018 07:05 am

Good question Rob, Ialso learnt a lot.

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