Has anyone ever run across stamps precanceled in black over another color? I have a US #1040 that appears to have been precanceled in violet or purple than precanceled again in black. The picture doesn't show it as well as the naked eye.
Gentle request: Please show the entire philatelic item, then show any additional close-up scans to clarify the question. It is important to provide full information and put the question in context. Thanks so much!
This appears to be a "local" precancel applied by hand (the importance of showing an image of the entire item), and essentially impossible to apply the cancel device twice in exactly the same position. Thus I have no doubt this stamp was only precanceled once. Also with a mix of inks, perhaps along the lines of ... we need to precancel these stamps and I can only find a large inkpad with magenta ink. Oh well, I'll just add black ink to the pad and it will work fine. Nobody will ever notice if it has a little magenta too.
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