Precancel Or Parcel Cancel ?

Is this a precancel or parcel cancel ?
Thanks again for your reply.

Precancel. I believe this style is referred to as a "ladder" type.

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With or without the precancel, that is a lovely stamp.

Well this is a surprise. Only two plates used to print the 6c Garfield coil, so no problem choosing which one this came from (20968). Other plate it was paired with is 20969. They must have been good plates, because: Of the perforated vertically coils of the series, all the other values over 2c (letter rate then, until mid-1932 anyway) used 8 plates for more.

One doesn't find 6c coils difficult to find on cover. I think the 4c Martha, 8 plates used, is the one most scarcely seen, though. Scott has $14 on cover. No cover entry for 6c it is common enough.

Just wondering, why this might be example of a "ladder" type local precancel, while the Eau Claire example a couple threads away was described as NOT a local precancel (which looks like a "ladder" type to me, though oriented / sized differently. maybe that means one of these is a "ladder" precancel and the other "not" ?)

Well, the cancel above is perfectly aligned to the stamp, a machine job. Whereas the EAU CLAIRE strip of three coil stamps you refer to looks obviously manually applied.

Official precancel name is a City Type Coil. This is type # 162 in the PSS Town and Type Catalog, which you really have to get if you are serious about precancels.

Otherwise, you will be lost in a deluge of stamps that will look identical to your eye, but which are not if you hold them up against the printed examples. The catalog shows each precancel at actual size, so you can compare minor differences in linelengths, or widths, or in type faces, or……