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Volume 74, No. 5
THE PRECANCEL FORUM May 2013 Whole No. 881
I� THIS ISSUE
Atlantic T&T Counts Page 163
Complete Table of Contents Page 159
HIGHLIGHTS
Convention Update Page 171
Precanceled Post Cards Page 174
Columbia-Ielfield Co. Page 177
PRECA�CELS PURCHASED
I have established the reputation of paying fair, or even generous prices for estates, lots, collections and accumulations of precancels. I can pay better prices because I have acquired, through years of experience, the knowledge of how best to liquidate all types of precancels, not just the cream. I have found new homes for tens of millions of precancels in the past eight years. If the time has come to sell your precancel holdings or to line up your affairs, because no one in your family is interested in precancels, please consider me as the one to handle everything fairly and discreetly. I travel anywhere, and can provide impeccable references.
PRECA�CELS SOLD
As stated above, I take pride in finding new homes for the precancels that I acquire. If you are interested in obtaining any variety of precancel, as single stamps, packets, mixtures or entire collections, be sure I know what you are looking for. If I don’t have the specific item(s) at the moment, you can be assured that I will keep you in mind for when the right stuff comes along.
PHIL CAYFORD
BOX 497
DUBLI�, �H 03444
603-563-8021
May 2013 158
TABLE OF CO�TE�TS Article Page
Editor’s Soapbox 161 Secretary’s Report 161 Bob Bartlow 162 Atlantic States T & T Counts -
March 2013 163 2013 Convention Update 171 Compiling and Retaining the
History of Companies That Used Precancel Devices 172
Deleted Types 172 MW Update #108 173 Collecting Precanceled
Post Cards 174 Precanceled Post Card from
the “Unexciting” Era 176 Question About the Columbia-
Ielfield Company 177 Machine Cancels and the
Columbia-Ielfield Company 178 Burometer and DLE Counts 181 From the President 181 Precanceled Special Delivery
Stamps (continued) 183 Tyrone, PA, A New Listing 185 Illini Meeting 187 Do You Know German
Precancels? 187 Club Scene 188 Post Offices Within Los
Angeles City Limits Which Used Or Are Using Precancels of Their Own 189
Calendar of Events 192 Classified Ads 193
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We need a certain amount of space for addresses on the first page of each issue. This month the Table of Contents encroached on that space and has been moved here.
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THE PRECANCEL FORUM (USPS #441-780) (ISSN #2073-5415)
Published Monthly by the
PRECANCEL STAMP SOCIETY, INC. PO Box 1013, Fenton, MO 63026
Volume 74 – No. 5 May 2013 Whole No. 881
Subscription to members: electronic delivery $17.00, USPS 2nd class $29.00 Non-Members $35.00 per year Single copies $1.50
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Fenton, MO 63026-1013
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Vice-President: Dale Malzahn, P.O. Box 567, Trenton, MI 48183-0567 [email protected]
Secretary: T.G. Rehkop, P.O. Box 1013, Fenton, MO 63026-1013 [email protected]
Treasurer: Ralph Kimball, P.O. Box 763, Boulder Creek, CA 95006-0763 [email protected]
Editor-Business Manager Forum: Larry Patterson, P.O. Box 3442, Cary, NC 27519-3442 [email protected]
Promotional Secretary: Jerry Hejduk, P.O. Box 490450, Leesburg, FL 34749-0450 [email protected]
APS Representative: Arnold Selengut, 1109 N. Riverhills Dr., Temple Terrace, FL 33617-4243 [email protected]
Specifications Chairman: David W. Smith, P.O. Box 64, Trumansburg, NY 14886-0064, [email protected]
Historian: James R. Callis, Jr., 621 N. St. Asaph St., #404, Alexandria, VA 22314-1929 [email protected] Webmaster: Mike Hynes, P.O. Box 866, Folsom, CA 95763-0866 Mike @precancels.com Web Site: www.precancels.com.
See ‘Calendar of Events’ for dates and locations of meetings open to the public.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS:
Chairman, Matt Stephenson, 3650 W. Fairfield Lane, Chandler, AZ 85226 [email protected]
Mike Hynes, P.O. Box 866, Folsom, CA 95763-0866 James Hirstein, P.O. Box 4072, Missoula, Mt 59806-4072
Duane Spidle, 6140 Coyote Lane, Peyton, CO 80831-8300
This issue contains another installment in the series of specialized precancel collections. We all thank those who have submitted an article and look forward to receiving more in this series. In a similar vein, John Williams submitted another interesting question. My “Googleling” the internet did not answer the question, but it did provide some inter-esting information. Your individual questions and the
Editor’s
Soap
Box
information in the cranial vaults of our precancel experts can lead to Forum articles that will enlighten all of us. When paying for ads in The Forum, please make your check payable to PSS and not to me. Now that that little bit of housekeeping has been dealt with, on to the good stuff. Looking ahead to the Secretary’s Report, it looks like we have turned a corner for the good. This month we have seven new members, four pending applica-tions, and an additional seven new applicants. I’ve not seen numbers like that for many months!
SECRETARY’S REPORT FOR MARCH 2013
April 1, 2013
�EW MEMBERS
8126 Nestor Enrique Coppes
8127 Christina Stitt-Howland 8128 William N. Crosthwaite 8129 John E. Langston 8130 Bryan A. Kendall 8131 Patrick Marc Desbonnet 8132 Carol F. May
APPLICATIO� PE�DI�G
William A. Caville, 1661 Madison Rd, Templeton, PA 16259 Ira Anekstein, PO Box 1383, Comack, NY 11725 James K. Oliver, 426 Barton Rd, Ivasburg, VT 05845 Glenn E. Wolf, Sr., 5858 Leslie Drive, Fairfield, OH 45014
161 May 2013
APPLICATIO� FOR MEMBERSHIP
William Scott Lytle, 680 Michael Dr, Sheridan, WY 82801 Proposed by: T. G. Rehkop
John A. Murphy, 298 Sherbrooke Rd., Lindenhurst, NY 11757 Proposed by: T. G. Rehkop
Sean F. Keane, 541 Charlesworth Dr, Sarnia, Ontario N7V 2R5 Canada Proposed by: Peter Newton
John H. Panhorst, 132 Chatwood Terrace, St. Louis, MO 63126-1001 Proposed by: Dick Laetsch
Peter Balner, 12066 E. Lupine Ave, Scottsdale, AZ 85259 Proposed by: T. G. Rehkop Jay S. Armstrong, 6802 Escondido Dr., Houston, TX 77083 Proposed by: Katie Foster
ADDRESS CHA�GE
Bill Curns, P. O. Box 29, Haynesville, NC 28904 Paul Kaufman, P.O. Box 1, Rockaway Park, NY 11694-0001
TOTAL PSS MEMBERSHIP March 1, 2013 - 601
T.G. Rehkop, Secretary
BOB BARTLOW, PSS 163-3717 Jerry Hejduk, PSS 7405
It is with deep regret that I inform the membership of Bob’s death on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013. Bob was cremated; his ashes were returned to Vin-cennes, Indiana, where a memorial service will be held at some later date. Edna's home address is 2210 S. Cypress Drive, Vincennes IN 47591-6865.
DO YOU COLLECT LOCAL PRECA�CELS?
WE CA� HELP
Approval books available for all series by states—1908-1919, 1922-28, 1938 Presidential and all newer issues.
We do have Type and Town approval books for all states. We DO NOT service local want lists.
We also provide approval and/or want list service for Bureaus.
Steve & Marlene Gunesch
2852 Sunset Ridge Court, Deltona, FL 32725-2131
(386) 532-8166 email: [email protected] 882
162 May 2013
163 May 2013
ATLA�TIC STATES T & T COU�TS - MARCH 2013 The upcoming nominal deadlines for reporting your counts are as follows:
Western Group May 15 Total (All States)* July 15 Nuclear Group Sept 15 South Central Group Nov 15 New England Group Jan 15
* This count will be based on the current data in the database and does not require any additional input from the reporters. However, if there have been significant changes in their counts for any Region(s), reporters may submit their updated counts by the deadline shown. Counts are maintained on the database until refreshed by a new count, or for five years, unless the reporter requests deletion or drops out of the PSS. Es-tablished T & T Reporters will automatically receive reporting forms via email a few weeks before each deadline. Other PSS members who would like to participate must request the forms and reporting guidelines via email from the writer at the following address:
[email protected] There are currently 62 reporters for this region, down by two from last year. Four of last year’s reporters have been dropped for failure to update their counts within the 5-year window. They have been replaced by three new re-porters, one of whom had previously been a reporter but had dropped out. None of the no-longer-reporting-collectors were within the top 20. The new reporters are: Tjernhaugen (the former reporter), Jacobsen and Ross. We wel-come all of you. In the Town counts, the top four positions are unchanged. Foster and Rehkop, formerly tied for 6th, are now tied for 5th, both surpassing Hendren who has fallen into a tie at the 8th rung with Cunningham, who moves up from tied for 9th. Adrian improves from 8th to take over the 7th spot in the rankings. Cum-mings falls from tied for 9th to 10th. Positions 11 thru 15 are held by the same collectors as they were last year. Parker overtakes McNeilly to gain the 16th rung, pushing McNeilly down to 17th. Tjernhaugen re-enters the ladder in the
18th position while Slotsky and Denis hold their former positions. Verleur, formerly 18th, has now fallen out of the top 20. The top collection still lacks 3 towns, the same as last year. The collection in 10th place now lacks 31 towns, an improvement of three towns over last year. The bottom of the 2nd decile now lacks 166 towns, 55 less than last year. In the Type rankings, the top 13 positions are unchanged from last year. Parker jumps up from 17th to grab the 14th rung. Colla retains the 15th position and McNeilly drops from 14th to 16th. Verleur falls from 16th to 17th. Tjern-haugen re-enters the ladder in the 18th position. Bird drops from 18th to 19th and Spidle, formerly 27th takes a mighty leap upwards to gain the 20th rung. These last two events combine to push the former 19th and 20th position hold-ers (Schrier and Selles) out of the top 20. The top collection still needs 33 types, the same as last year. The collection in 20th place now lacks 1,876 types whereas the 20th place collection last year lacked 2,082 types, an improvement of 206 types. Taking a look at the aging of the counts, we see that 47 collectors refreshed their counts in the last 15 months, with 6 last sending in new counts in 2011. 3 collectors last reported in 2010; 3 collectors’ counts date from 2009, and 3 from 2008. If your collection is among the older counts, perhaps it is time for you to send in your current count before you are dropped from the ladder. 4 collectors whose counts dated from early 2008 and late 2007 were dropped from this report.
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ATLANTIC STATES COUNTS
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851
727
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1278
2609
1106
3003
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71
684
445
11887
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95
848
720
494
1273
2554
1101
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71
678
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2566
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677
439
11736
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2901
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661
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11518
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1242
2476
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2903
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665
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11490
BIL
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7/1
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6
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96
831
707
466
1265
2524
1055
2859
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656
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11440
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3/1
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432
1226
2200
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2643
459
70
607
380
10634
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2557
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3/1
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1101
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12
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3/1
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2013 PSS CO�VE�TIO� UPDATE Stuart Hanlein, PSS 118-4186
After several conversations with the Sales Manager and a visit to the hotel, here is the advance information about the 2013 PSS Convention in Chatta-nooga, Tennessee to be held at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel.
The hotel’s address is 1400 Market Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402. After leaving the Interstate Highway at exit 178, it is about 2 blocks north on Mar-ket Street.
The Convention will start at 8:00 am on Tuesday the 20th of August and go through Saturday the 24th.
The spacious ballroom (see page 191) has a limited number of electrical re-ceptacles, only 4, with only 4 sockets apiece for the entire 6,300 square feet of space. Power will be provided for dealer tables for $18.00 a line. The room will be available for dealer setup after 5:00 pm Monday. We must be out of the room by midnight Saturday. Security will lock the doors to the ballroom each night and provide a roving patrol to keep an eye on the facilities.
The hotel will only accept room reservations by phone at (423) 266-5000. If
you get transferred to the 1-880 number, ask to be connected to the ho-
tel’s registration desk. Be sure to use our group code: 13PCSS.
Our contracted rate is $89.00 per room per night. However, there are two ad-ditional taxes: Tennessee’s of 9.25% and a local occupancy tax of 8%. Thus, the actual room cost will be $104.34. When making a reservation, specify a king or 2 double beds. For those who wish to stay in one of the railroad Pull-man cars, the room rate is $184.00 per night; the additional taxes will make a total of $215.65.
The registration table will be outside of the ballroom, next to the main en-trance. The Chattanooga Visitor’s Bureau will provide some goodies and make a short presentation at 10:30 am on Tuesday to advise interested parties of area attractions.
For anyone who would like to sponsor coffee for the ballroom during the con-vention, the price is $24.00 per gallon, which will provide 22 cups of coffee. There is no charge for water which will be available throughout the conven-tion.
171 May 2013
COMPILI�G A�D RETAI�I�G THE HISTORY
OF COMPA�IES THAT USED PRECA�CEL DEVICES Jim Baird, PSS 199-4721
[email protected] Once upon a time, I started a spreadsheet - essentially listing all of the PSS towns and their types to which I added the companies which I had been able to identify as having used them. As I remember, a big piece of what I in-cluded was all of the listings from the first edition of the Precancel/Perfin
Catalog. Other listings were whatever I came across. I don’t know the num-ber of listings in the spreadsheet. It has been years since I looked at it. In cleaning out old files from my computer(s) I came across what I had done. It occurred to me that before throwing out the work, someone out there would like the computer file. I can also tell them what to do next to add substantial numbers to what I have already done.
DELETED TYPES
Jim Callis, PSS 150-3780 [email protected]
One of the things to collect is deleted types. These are types that were listed by Bushnell, Rotnem, Hoover, Noble or PSS that are no longer recognized. As you might imagine, making a list of them is not all that easy. The last two editions of the PSS T&T Catalog nicely included a list of deletions, so that part was pretty easy. Developmental work on the classic catalogs helped iden-tify types deleted from the Hoover black book. However, we are missing spe-cifics about types deleted after the Hoover black book through the fifth edi-tion of the PSS T&T Catalog. I've read Larry Patterson’s and Fred Ingram's recent articles on compiling databases. So, I wondered whether anyone working on databases has identi-fied and compiled one of deleted PSS types, and if so, would they share the list. It would be a great help in my quest for deleted types. Editor: I had not thought to compile such a list. I had only been correcting my list of PSS types to correspond with the current T&T Catalog. Until a recent more thorough review of the list of deleted types, I had mistakenly assumed that a type tended to be deleted because a poor impression had been incor-rectly given a “new” identification. I had mistakenly associated all deletes to have wording such as the one on page 5 of Appendix III in the current T&T Catalog for the Atlantic City, NJ L-3 HS, “Same type as the 517(WC).” I see now that that is an atypical, rather than a standard, reason for deletion.
172 May 2013
MO�TGOMERY WARD UPDATE #108 Thomas Sanford, PSS 222-3895
3031 Second Street South, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494 [email protected]
My thanks go to Jim Callis for providing unlisted items for Baltimore, MD. The unlisted MW multiple controls seem to be the only ones appearing this year. Is it possible that we have found all the MW unlisted denominations? I doubt it, so keep reporting your unlisted MW discoveries to me.
MW MULTIPLES
CHICAGO
MW-3 Page 12 1958 Prexy-71 MAY 25¢ Dbl
BALTIMORE
MW-13 Page 10 1961 Liberty-71 APR 9¢ Dbl Page 11 1962 Liberty-71 SEP 20¢ Triple Page 12 1965 Liberty-71 July 20¢ Dbl invert
173 May 2013
Precancels Wanted If you’re giving up precancel collecting or have inherited a collection that you
are not interested in, I’m interested in buying entire collections and accumulations
of precancels. I will travel to inspect your holdings if they require that.
Please contact me if its time to sell.
Phil Cayford
Box 497
Dublin �H 03444 [email protected] 868
IT’S TIME TO START
COLLECTI�G PERFI�S
An inexpensive philatelic experience
Club sales of Stamps and Covers
Website for U.S. & foreign Per-fin publications
Bi-monthly magazine Sample copy available from
Membership & Publicity Chair
The Perfins Club
P.O. Box 490450
Leesburg, FL 34749-450
174 May 2013
COLLECTI�G PRECA�CELED POSTAL CARDS
Josh Furman, PSS 7479 Wow! Now you've picked a tough one! Perhaps the first thing to consider is the time frame in which precanceled postal cards can be found. Beginning in 1961, the government started printing three lines or bars over the indicium on postal cards to indicate that they were precanceled. The first of these was the purple statue of liberty card, UX46d (S65). This practice continued with each change in postal card mailing rates through the 14¢ George Wythe card of 1985 (UX108, S125). These Bureau-printed cards are not very exciting; they are quite common; they seem to have been used for various purposes; and many are found post-canceled as well, even though the usage would seem to be in a bulk mailing. The real fun in collecting precanceled postal cards comes from those used before 1961, and all the way back to 1874. I would have to categorize most of these precanceled cards as scarce, so finding them is going to be mostly luck–checking closely on the internet sites such as eBay and keeping up with what is being offered in regular auctions as well.
Front of a precanceled post card (only one of which is known)
So what constitutes a precanceled postal card? First, it would have to have a usage that would suggest a bulk mailing. After all, precanceling was designed to help out postal clerks when they were obliged to cancel multiple similar pieces of mail. Examples of this kind of mailing include business offerings to
175 May 2013
a local or regional area, meeting notices, public events, mutual aid assess-ments, charity requests, and so forth. Precanceling might be printed and also might be rubber-stamped. The precancel must be unique to the particular kind of mailing and should not be found on other, general mail.
Now, if you find one (some) of these cards, how much should you pay for them? Hard to say, except to say that they are not inexpensive. The last two cards I recall seeing at auction sold for $137.50 in one case and $1,000.00 in another. The general range would probably be somewhere in between.
The real fun in these cards will be found on the backs, since there is where we find the reason for their use. "Celebrating 66 years of service to the na-tion..." (Sears), "Bone Grown Hay Shows in the Milk Pail," "Grow 50 Bush-els More Corn Per Acre," "Join Our Christmas Savings Club," "Special Sale on Carney Chicks," "Vote Democratic," "Premiums for Dead Stock," "This Coupon Worth 15¢," and so on.
So start hunting, and enjoy the search and then the fun.
Advertisement on back side of post card shown on previous page.
Editor: In 2010, Josh Furman published his research in Precanceled Postal
Cards, 1874 - 1961, A Handbook and Album. The 181-page book, with color
illustrations and printed on 8½ by 11-inch paper is available from many pre-
cancel dealers who stock literature. The postcard shown on these two pages
and those on page 191 are just a few of the many illustrated in his book.
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The front and back of the precanceled post card (Scott UX88) shown above was used by the owner of a stamp store to advertise his spring sale. At that time the store was located on the second floor of a building in a local boutique
PRECA�CELED POST CARD
FROM THE “U�EXCITI�G ERA” Larry Patterson, PSS 5007
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shopping center. Although this post card came from the “not very exciting era” when USPS mass-produced precanceled postcards, there is an interesting storey associated with the store. During the time the stamp store was in operation, there was a dentist’s office on the first floor of the Bryan building. The dentist had a daughter with consid-erable psychological problems. One night she broke into her father’s office and set it on fire. The fire destroyed all the businesses in that section of the build-ing, including the Raleigh Stamp Shop. I never learned what that owner did after the fire. However, another stamp shop, Chester’s Stamps, with a different owner, opened on the other end of the second floor of the rebuilt structure. The current owner’s name is not Ches-ter, and I have never bothered to ask him why the store is so-named.
QUESTIO� ABOUT THE
COLUMBIA-IELFIELD COMPA�Y John Williams, PSS 7358
The recent discussion by Dave Smith and others of devices used to precancel small lots of stamps received instead of payment in coin is interesting. Previ-ously, I had been under the impression that precancels applied to commemo-ratives were probably favor precancels. I can now apply lessons learned to material that I had assumed was purely a philatelic oddity.
On the subject of devices, I purchased a three-subject roller, square device from Hopewell, Kansas several years ago. Hopewell is in the northwest cor-ner of Pratt County, about 110 miles west of Wichita. The device is in its original carton from the Ielfield Postal Supply Company of Forestville, NY. There are no listings for Hopewell in any of the Society’s catalogs, but I would be interested to know if Ielfield manufactured devices used to precan-cel stamps. I would also like to know the names of one or more cities/towns that may have used a similar three-subject device for precancels.
The device leaves an impression (shown on the next page) similar to Type 416 with Kansas spelled out rather than abbreviated. There are no serifs and all capital letters. The lines are 14 mm apart. “Columbia – Ielfield/ Silver Creek, NY” is stamped on the bottom of the carton. Editor: Jim Callis replied that the Columbia-Ielfield Company did not make devices under contract with the Post Office or Postal Service.
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Editor: Prior to sending Mr. Williams’ question to Jim Callis who has records about the manufacturers of USDPO/USPS-contracted devices, I checked the current PSS Town and Type Catalog and, for curiosity, Bill Cummings’ catalog of fakes. The PSS Town and Type Catalog lists a 745 device for Hopewell. Cummings has some listings for “Hope,” Kansas, but none for “Hopewell.” So apparently post cancels made with the Hopewell device, now owned by Mr. Williams, have not been confused with precancels. Due to its condition, Mr. Williams chose not to send me the device for my observation. He also did not send a picture of it. So I do not know whether the “square” shape which he used to describe the device is correct. The shape of the impressions he sent are rectangular rather than square.
MACHI�E CA�CELS A�D THE
COLUMBIA-IELFIELD COMPA�Y Larry Patterson, PSS 5007
Upon searching the Internet for information about the Ielfield Postal Supply Company, I found a rather lengthy and informative article published in Octo-ber 2007 in the Machine Cancel Forum by the Machine Cancel Society. I also found a reference in a brief article published by the Mail Railway Associa-tion. The second article did not provide any additional information, so I only used the first as my source. Based on the name of the philatelic society and the subject of the article, I was disappointed, but not surprised, at not finding any references to hand can-cellers. Maybe other members will have some information. Machine cancel collectors (mechano-marcophilatelists) have an interest in identifying the machines that applied the cancellations. The group is also in-terested in tracking the technology and market uses, which in turn help to identify the manufacturer.
Shown above are impressions from Hopewell, Kansas’ three-subject roller device. An impression from a PSS 416 device is shown on the right.
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No sooner did stamps come to use in England in 1840, than a means of can-celling them was needed. Machines to cancel British mail are found as early as 1857. They were changed over time as mechanical advances were applied. In the United States, Washington and New York were believed to host ma-chine cancel trials. Early on, there were two types of cancelling machines. 1. Machines that required the mail to be fed manually, one piece at a time,
with the area to be cancelled in a certain position. The machine required two people for peak efficiency. One person fed the mail, piece-by-piece, into the machine; and the other operated the machine, usually with a hand crank.
2. Machines that had an automatic feed. A bundle of mail was loaded into the
machine, but only after the mail had been faced so that the area to be can-celled would be positioned in the correct location. This type of machine required one operator who first faced and stacked the mail and then fed it into the machine. In busy offices, several people faced the mail so that one operator could constantly load stacks of mail into the machine for cancel-ling.
The early machines were powered manually. As technology advanced, the machines were powered by electricity. 1. Hand-cranked machines: Machines powered by a human, either by hand or
using a food treadle into which the letters were fed individually, or in small bunches. These were the most labor intensive machines.
2. Electrically-power driven – non-automatic machines: The operator used
both hands to drop the letters, one at a time, right way up, into a trough and onto a moving band to carry the mail to the cancelling part of the ma-chine. The speed of these machines was dictated by the speed of the hu-man feeding them, with a “good” operator able to cancel 5,000 items per hour.
3. Power driven – automatic machines: After being pre-faced, stacked and
loaded onto the hopper, the picking, conveying, cancelling, and re-stacking was automatic. The practical rate was 13,000 to 30,000 pieces per hour (depending on the operator), although some manufacturers claimed a
The Columbia cancel shown to the right is dated Dec. 10, 1919 on board the U.S.S. New Mexico.
rate of up to 60,000 pieces per hour. The ongoing requirement for manu-ally facing and stacking the mail reduced the efficiency of the mail proc-essing system.
The Columbia Postal Supply Company entered the postal canceling arena in 1898. It was founded by the Ielfield family and incorporated in 1900. The General Manager, John W. Slack, gained controlling interest in 1914. Fred C. Ielfield left the company in 1915 to form the Standard Mail Marking Machine Co. Columbia was the first company to install a machine cancel on board a United States warship (pre-1920 uses are known for USS Pittsburgh, USS Mississippi, and USS New Mexico).
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In 1925, August Ielfield left Columbia and formed the Ielfield Company. There was intense competition, including several lawsuits, between the two companies, Columbia and Ielfield, until it ended during the Great Depression. By the 1930’s, Columbia and Ielfield machines were replaced by International and Universal machines. By the Second World War when machines were needed for US APO and NAVY cancels, Columbia had none to provide. Co-lumbia suspended operations in 1933. Lacking the economic stimulus of the Second World War, the company did not improve its product and enjoy post-war expansion. Their machines were relegated to the smallest towns in America, and as those towns grew, the post offices were sent either International or Universal machines. In 1945 Ielfield went to work for Columbia, which became a joint company known as Columbia-Ielfield. By 1956 the company was not receiving any new business. It struggled to compete with the other two giants in the field. The Hanley Postal Supply Company bought all of Columbia-Ielfield’s assets in 1956. No new machines were installed by Hanley, and they only serviced machines already in operation.
No cancels are known after 1957 from machines made by Columbia-Ielfield (or its earlier sister corporations Columbia or Ielfield) on ship mail, armed forces base mail, or from any city of size. Their cancels are distinguished by the large letters in the postmark dial, the strong wavy lines (frequently with screw holes showing in the cancellation lines), and close space between the postmark dial and the cancellation. Apparently there is a series of articles entitled “The Columbia Story, The postal markings of the Columbia Postal Supply Company, the Ielfield Postal Supply Corporation and the Columbia-Ielfield Company of Silver Creek, New York” which are spread over several volumes of the Machine Cancel
Forum. However, when I searched on that title, I only found references to “other” Columbias, such as the movie maker.
BUREAU A�D DOUBLE-LI�E ELECTRO COU�TS
Larry Patterson, PSS 5007 The 2013 Burometer will be published in the August issue of The Forum; this year’s cut off date is Friday, July 19. The Double-Line Electro count will be a part of the December issue; its final reporting date is Friday, November 16. I will, however, accept updated information from participants at any time. Members who are not now participating in one of these counts, but would like to do so may contact me at [email protected] or P.O. Box 3442, Cary, NC 27519-3442.
�OTES FROM THE PRESIDE�T
Charlie Adrion, PSS 6146 I am writing this on the day of the Boston Marathon tragedy. Our hearts were broken once again watching the worst aspects of the real world jump to the forefront of our consciousness. We pray for those killed and injured, their families, first responders, and our resolute law enforcement personnel. No justice will be too severe for the cowardly perpetrators. In our quiet world of stamps, we can turn off some of the ugly noise, if only temporarily. Our hobby can be good for the soul on days like this. A non-member, David Marasco [[email protected]] has been working on a survey of rare Canada precancels. David is one of the editors of the highly
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PRECA�CEL LITERATURE FOR SALE
New! Precancel Errors: Authentic, Alleged, and Debunked, by James R. Callis, Jr. January 2013 edition. Lists every known precancel error as well as those which look like errors, but are not. Describes the error and its position on the device where known or exists. $10 including US postage.
Catalogue of the Printed Precancels of the United States, 2011 CD by Bruce Brunell. Lists every US stamp precanceled by a local printed device. Includes electros, typesets, mimeos, and city coils. Catalogue is too large to print, so this is a CD of the catalogue. CD contains .pdf and Word .doc for-mats of the catalog. $27.00 including US postage.
More at www.precanceled.com and mnhynes on eBay. Mike Hynes, Box 866, Folsom, CA 95763
recommended Unitrade Catalog of Canada Precancels. Curiously, there are
many items in the catalog which did not appear in any of the known large
collections, specifically:
Calgary 2-111-I
Regina 2-109-I
Hamilton 2-90-I
Toronto 4-92
Montreal 7-119-I
Walkerville 1-116
Niagara Falls 2-89-I
Windsor 3-163-I
Peterboro 2-196-I
Winnipeg 4-118-I
Quebec 1-94-I
To clarify the identifications, the first number is the precancel index, the sec-ond is the Scott catalog number. So Regina 2-109-I is Scott 109, the 3 cent red admiral, second style from Regina, inverted. Needless to say I would love to acquire any of these for my collection. But, if you have a Canada collection and want to be part of the survey - please contact David. Ebay continues to turn up unusual precancels and precancel curiosities. I was the underbidder on this Mahomet, IL parcel post. It looks so much like a precancel, but probably is just somebody's fantasy. There are many similar Mahomet items listed in Bill Cumming's fakes catalog.
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Finally, it is not too early to make plans for the annual PSS convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee [Choo Choo!!] Chairman Stu Hanlein [[email protected]] reports: We now have 94 room nights via advanced registration. It is critical that all reservations must be made through the Choo Choo registration desk at (423) 266-5000 to get the PSS preferred rate and you must use the group code 13PCSS. If you get transferred to the 1-880 number then you need to have them connect you to the registration desk at the Choo Choo. Getting the most out of our annual convention is the responsibility of ALL members, not just Stu and the organizing committee. I am asking for anyone who cares to volunteer to contact Stu or myself as soon as you know your attendance plans. We hope to make this the best convention in recent years and a showcase for
the precancel hobby!
PRECA�CELED SPECIAL DELIVERY STAMPS H. Preston Hoskins
Extracted from a longer article in the November-December 1939 issue of The Precancel Optimist
(Scott Numbers updated to those in a current Catalog.) (continued from page 152 in the April 2013 issue of The Forum)
The Act of May 29, 1928, made further changes in Special Delivery and Spe-cial Handling services for fourth-class matter. The new law fixed rates for Special Handling with or without Special Delivery for fourth-class matter. These rates made necessary the issuance of three new Special Handling stamps, the 10-cent (Scott’s QE1), the 15-cent (Scott’s QE2), and the 20-cent (Scott’s QE3). These appeared on June 25, 1928, in a yellow green color, and the old 25-cent value (Scott’s QE4), originally in deep green, later appeared in yellow green (Scott’s QE4a). With this brief history of our special Delivery and special Handling stamps, we can look at these stamps in precanceled condition with a better under-standing.
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In the first place, we find that the use of precanceled Special Delivery and Special Handling stamps has been confined, very largely, to the large cities. However, this is not a hard and fast rule, as there are some fairly large cities that have not used them, as far as the records show. Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Saint Louis are good examples. On the other hand, some small post of-fices have precanceled either Special Delivery or Special Handling stamps, or both, in fairly large quantities from time to time. Certain kinds of perishable merchandise and occasional emergencies have necessitated the fastest possi-
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ble handling of mail matter and precanceled Special Delivery and Special Handlings stamps have played their part. Petaluma, California, and New Washington, Ohio suggest baby chicks. Flint, Michigan, and Connersville, Indiana, bring to mind repairs and replacement parts for automobiles. Berkeley, California, and Pearl River, New York, fre-quently require fast service on serums and vaccines. Quite a few small post offices have precanceled Special Delivery stamps for Christmas use. Most of these are quite scarce and the reason is not hard to find. Christmas packages usually go to homes rather than offices. If there does not happen to be a stamp collector in the home, when the package ar-rives, usually the wrapper-and the stamps-are destroyed. In looking over a collection of precanceled Special Delivery and Special Han-dling stamps, we find that practically all methods of precanceling have been employed, with electrotypes and rubber handstamps predominating, of course. In a few instances, special devices have been used for these stamps.
In a limited number of cases we have had Parcel Post stamps and Special De-livery stamps precanceled in the same type. There may have been a case or two in which special plates were made for the Parcel Post stamps and these used subsequently on Special Delivery or Special Handling stamps, or both. It is more likely, however, that special plates were made for the Special Deliv-ery and Special Handling stamps and these used subsequently on remainders of the Parcel Post stamps.
TYRO�E, PA, A �EW LISTI�G
Bill Lehr, PSS 6902 Tyrone, PA, is a small, somewhat central, Pennsylvania town that was impor-tant as a distribution point for the Clearfield coal mines and for manufacturing paper. Tyrone was once known as “The Hub of the Highways” because four railroads and three major highways converged there. Before the railroads,
Tyrone was a terminus on the Main Line Canal, Juniata Division, Pennsyl-vania Canal System.
Some time in the 1950’s, the First Methodist Church of Tyrone ordered pre-cancelled stamped envelopes. The base envelope is Scott U532b/UPSS 3297a-45. The precancelled envelope designation is 3a5 O 30 45. This is a new variety with the use of the 39 C.F.R., 34.65(e) desig-nation. There is no longer a First Methodist Church in Ty-rone but the building, shown to the right, is still in use as a church today.
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The precancelled envelope, 3a5 O 30 45, shown above from Tyrone, PS has been reduced in size to fit the available space.
ILLI�I MEETI�G Gene Byers, PSS 225-4853
Now that the tax season is over for another year, it is time for me to think
about precanceled stamps again.
Our club will meet from May 2 through May 4, 2013, in Bloomington IL., at the Hawthorn Suites Hotel. Their phone number, for reservations, is 309-829-8111. Remember, they have a free breakfast each morning along with free wi-
fi.
Collectors should start arriving around 4:00 pm on Thursday, May 2. The business meeting will be held Friday morning. I will plan to have the "Byers special cookies" again. By noon on Saturday, everyone will start packing up
to head home.
If you have any special wants, be sure and email Dilmond Postlewait, Rick Podwell, David Smith, Tom Sanford, Dale Malzhan, or Phil Cayford to verify
that they will be there to let them know what you would like to see.
Gary Hendren, TG Rekhop, Carl Moore, and I will be there for sure.
DO YOU K�OW GERMA� PRECA�CELS?
William E. Engelhardt The Precancelist, October 1948
Official Organ of the Precancel Stamp Society of Great Britain Submitted by Bill Lehr, PSS 6902
I think that many of our precancel friends do not know that we also have Ger-man precancels. In the old German country of Hanover, the post officials were punished if they forgot to cancel a letter. So the stamps were cancelled in sheets and for this precancellation the usual hand stamp was used or the sheets supplied with horizontal, vertical, or diagonal ink lines. Of course, these precancels can only be acknowledged if still on the cover. It can be said that only the stamps with the hand stamps are real precancels. Those with ink-lines are usually post-canceled also. The most precancels you find are from 1850 – 55, but some were used till 1862. The most frequently precanceled stamp of Hanover is the 1 Groschen
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black on grey-green (issue of 1851). It is the cheapest stamp, as 1 Groschen was the postage for a single letter. Precancels on the later stamps, for instance on the issue of 1859 – 60 with the portrait of George V, are the most scarce.
As the Hamburgian postmaster Oelker was also Hanoverian station master in Ritzenbuttel, he introduced precanceling in his post office in Ritzenbuttel, an Hamburgian post office. So you find Hamburg stamps with the wavy cancel of Ritzenbuttel in 99% as precancel. In 1873 it joined with Cuxhaven, and has since used that name.
CLUB SCE�E
The April issue of The Florida Rambler contained a glowing review of the Florida Winter Meet. It was written and endorsed by a consortium from the UK, to wit: Brian Cassidy, Harry Machin, and Malcolm and Christine Litwin. In summary, they were impressed with how we operate our shows on the honor system and our friendliness. It seems that we Colonials have some couth after all. And if that wasn’t enough to make us feel warn and fuzzy, the mailing included a bonus precancel!
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TYPESTYPESTYPESTYPES
#1 Tenafly NJ 840.5 #2 University AL 633 #3 Peterman AL L-1 HS #4 Darrington WA 841 #5 Halifax NS 1-110 #6 Middleton GA 748 #7 Deming WA 819 #8 Culbertson MT 471 #9 Great Bend KS L-5 TS #10 Albany NY L-19 HS
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POST OFFICES WITHI� LOS A�GELES CITY LIMITS
WHICH USED OR ARE USI�G
PRECA�CELS OF THEIR OW� Lt. Col. George D. Wood
Editor: The following has been condensed from a two-part series that ap-peared in the November and December 1943 issues of The Precancel Opti-mist. Style references are those from the current T&T Catalog and not the Uni-versal Types that appeared in the original article. Vinyls are not mentioned because they were unknown when the article was written. Further, to keep the article to a reasonable length, I did not list the specific stamps known to have been precanceled by devices in use at the various towns at the time the article was written. There are two reasons I picked this article. I looked for one that appeared in the month of my birth. My wife and I like to read mysteries and detective sto-ries, many of which are sited in LA. It’s always interesting to observe how the various municipal police departments and the county sheriff’s office have to resolve issues related to their respective territories to determine which of the departments will be “in charge.” This article shed a light on law enforcement’s territorial issues within the greater Los Angeles area.
It goes without saying that Los Angeles is a most unusual and extraordinary city, for various reasons and in different ways. This is certainly true along precancel lines, for I do not think that any other city in the country can show such a number of post offices, 21 in all, and using 40 types, all within the city and yet using their own precancels. There are reasons for this. On August 29, 1859, before any additions, annexations or consolidations took place, the old original city occupied only 28 square miles. Since then, 83 separate additions have been made, ten by consolidation and 73 by annexation, until at the pre-sent time there are 450 square miles within this rather sprawling municipality. In many of these annexed or consolidated districts post offices already existed and they have been allowed to still do business on their own, possibly because it lessens the load the main post office would have to carry.
In May 1915, an aqueduct was completed to take water over the Sierra Ne-vada from Owens Valley and lakes 200 miles away. The 170 square miles of the San Fernando Valley, including nine post offices, were annexed so the surplus water could be utilized.
Taking these offices in their alphabetical order, Canoga Park with a Type 723 comes first. Encino has two Types, 716.5 and 729. Girard used Type 729. In
1941 Girard changed its name to Woodland Hills and then used Type 734. Hollywood used Type 236. Lankershim contracted locally for its L-1 Hand Stamp. North Hollywood had 3 Types: 258, 472, and 705. Lomita used Type 729. North Los Angeles precanceled stamps with Type 707. In 1938 North Los Angeles changed its name to Northridge and subsequently used Type 734. Pacific Palisades had two Types 472 and 705. Editor: I will stray from my original attempt at brevity and include an interesting observation for War and Defense buffs. Lt. Col. Wood noted that North Holly-wood precanceled the 1¢ Defense and the 3¢ Offense with a 705 device.
When the article was written, only two stamps were known to be precancelled with the Palms’ Type 546 device. They still rate an “A” catalog value. Reseda and Roscoe both used their own Type 712. When Los Angeles decided it needed a harbor, it annexed San Pedro, which used Types 232 and 513. Saw-telle is the location of a mammoth National Solders Home and Veterans Hos-pital. That town used three devices, a 482 and two locally-contracted mimeo-graphs. The L-1M has a current (7th edition) catalog value of $40.00, while the L-2M is valued at $150.00. Sunland has a Type 729. Tarzana was founded by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who did most of his late work there. The town used Type 181 and Type 721. Terminal Island used Type 726. It is located across the channel from San Pedro and is sometimes known as East San Pedro. The author mentioned three Types for Van Nuys, the last of the “valley” towns. (There are four types [261, 466, 548, and 703] currently listed in the T&T
Catalog for what I take to be the time frame under consideration. Because I don’t know enough about converting from “U” types to the current PSS Styles, this was the only time I was unable to assume the correct PSS Type.) The beach resort of Venice, with its canals, was designed after its Italian namesake. The town used seven types: 243, 256, 455, 563, 701, 729, and L-2. For some reason, this was almost as many types as used in Los Angeles itself. Wilmington, which used three types, 486, 622, and 704, was also taken into greater Los Angeles to consolidate the harbor area.
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The post office in Edella, Pennsylvania seems to have been the source of quite a bit of collectible philatelic material. Shown at the top of the next page are the three types of precanceled post cards known to have come from there. These examples have been scanned from illustrations in John Furman’s Pre-
canceled Postal Cards, 1874 - 1961, A Handbook and Album and have been reduced in size to fit the width of the page.
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Plenty of space in the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel’s ballroom for everyone
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CALE�DAR OF EVE�TS
May 2 - 4, 2013 Illini Precancel
Stamp Club Spring Meet
Hawthorne Suites, Bloomington, Illinois. Call (309) 829-8111 for reservations.
May 3 - 13, 2013 Philatelic Show Holiday Inn, Boxborough, MA
May 16 - 19, 2013 Pennsylvania
Gathering
501 Marsteller Road, New Park, PA. EPPS Mail/Floor Auction Sat. Nearest acceptable motel Shrewsbury Hampton Inn, Exit 4 of I83 $105.00; 2 queens in most rooms. (717) 235-9898
May 31 – June 1, 2013 �APEX McLean Hilton, Tysons Corner, VA
June 7 - 8, 2013 Missouri Mulefest Maryland Heights Community Center, 2344 McKelvey Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63043. 9am - 10 pm Fri; 8am - 3pm Sat.
August 7 - 10, 2013 Postmark Col-
lectors Club Convention Johnson City, TN. Contact Gary Hendren [email protected] for info.
August 8 - 11, 2013 APS Stamp
Show Midwest Airlines Center, Milwaukee, WI
August 20 - 24, 2013 PSS Annual
Convention (Tue. through Sat.)
Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel, Chattanooga, TN. Club’s room rate is $89.00 per night; $184.00 for a Pullman car.
September 21, 2013 �ew England
Precancel Club
9:30am to 3:00 pm Milford Town Library, 80 Spruce Street, Mil-ford, MA
September 27 - 28, 2013 Texas
Precancel Club Fall Meeting Comfort Inn & Suites, Capital St., Grapevine, TX
October 2013 (2nd weekend) EPPS
Auction
Days Inn, Horsham, PA. More details later.
October 23 - 25, 2013 California
Fall Roundup
Best Western Colony Inn, Atas-cadero, California; call (805) 466-4449 for reservations.
“Choo Choo” sign on hotel’s roof
Nearby restaurants. Contact Pete Heydt or Howard Tumler (513)874-4321 for more details.
August 2 - 9, 2014 PSS Annual
Convention (Mon. through Sat.)
St. Louis, Missouri, Club’s room rate is $109.00 per night. More details when available.
So people can make plans to attend any of these meetings or shows, please provide pertinent information as soon as possible.
The Calendar of Events includes meet-ings of PSS and its local sections, as well as other philatelic shows which PSS dealers will attend with precancel material for sale.
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WA�TED. Dated TEXAS precan-cels. Mixes, accumulations, etc. of printeds, hand stamps, or integrals. J. Alderson, 4208 Shipley Ct., Ben-brook, TX 76116 or [email protected]. 7/13
FOR SALE: Try one of our Town and Type Approval Books, all States avail-able. They are GREAT—you will like them! Gunesch, 2852 Sunset Ridge Ct., Deltona, FL 32725-2131, 386-532-8166 [email protected] 9/13
CLASSIFIED ADS
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CLASSIFIED RATES
1 issue: 6¢ per word 3 issues: 12¢ per word 6 issues: 24¢ per word
Advertise items “For Sale” or “Wanted” to over 500 members. Three- and six-issue ads must be consecutive. Mail your ad with pay-ment or email ad with payment to follow via USPS. Ad will run through the issue whole number in bottom right corner of ad. DEAD-LINE: 1st of month preceding date of issue. Remittance payable to PSS: mail to:
Editor, PO Box 3442
Cary, �C 27519-3442
WA�TED: Washington want list - pay double cat--ALGOMA-745, AUBURNDALE-704, CLINTON-VILLE-471, FAIR WATER-713, FOND DU LAC-553, FORESTVILLE-734, GENESEE DEPOT-486, HALES CORNERS-280, HINGHAM-729, LAKE GE-NEVA-577, LAKE GENEVA-L-2 R, MAYVILLE-457, MAYVILLE-563, MERRILL-731, MILWAUKEE-236, NEENAH-841, NEKOOSA-721, RIVER FALLS-512, SHEBOY-GAN-622, SHEBOYGAN FALLS-473, UNION GROVE-713, WIL-TON-701 [email protected] or Bob Noble, PSS 214-7230, 662 Laurel Av., Lititz, PA 17543-2737
FOR SALE: We will print PSS Town & Type album pages for any state or states on our 70# acid free stock punched for a 3-ring binder. Contact us for prices and shipping costs. Gunesch, 2852 Sunset Ridge Ct, Deltona, FL 32725-2131, (386)532-8166, [email protected].
FOR SALE: DLE want lists filled at catalog, no doubles. [email protected] or Bob No-ble, PSS 214-7230, 662 Laurel Av., Lititz, PA 17543-2737
FOR SALE: 381 PA towns $55.00. Art Damm, 176 Bent Pine Hill, North Wales, PA 19454
WA�TED: 1969 Christmas Precan-cels (Bureau, Local, Perfins, Errors or other) for a Specialized Collection on this topic. Contact Alan Bush [email protected] with anything you might have. Images are most appreciated. 5/13
FOR SALE: 394 PA towns $59.00. Art Damm, 176 Bent Pine Hill, North Wales, PA 19454
WA�TED: 1938 PRESIDENTIAL LOCALS--small towns only. All states and denominations. Will pur-chase collections and/or stock. No lots are too small. Send for our in-spection and offer. GUNESCH, 2852 Sunset Ridge Ct., Deltona, FL 32725-2131. (386) 532-8166, [email protected]. 9/13
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PSS CATALOGS PSS
Members
Non-
members
Town & Type Town & Type Catalog of the US & Territories, 7th ed, January 2007
$25.00 $27.50
Town & Type Software
Town and Type computer program for Win-dows
$39.00 $39.00
Bureau Bureau Precancel Catalog, 5th Edition, June 2005
$15.00 $16.50
Bureau Software
Computer program for windows $19.00 $19.00
Double Line Electros
2009 Edition of denominations precanceled with DLE plates
$15.00 $16.50
Style Chart Album
Style Chart of Local Precancel devices in album page format. 2007
$3.00 $3.50
13 cent Apple Green
Catalog of 1917 13 cent Apple Greens, 2006 ed. by Mike Gutman
$10.00 $11.00
City Type Coils Catalog of City Type Coils precancelled by coil machines, 2011 ed. by James Callis
$8.00 $9.00
Silent Precancels
Lines, Bars, and Designs on 19th and 20th century stamps, 2004 ed. by David Smith
$25.00 $27.50
Precanceled Envelopes
Precanceled Envelopes of the United States, 3rd ed. 2003
$20.00 $22.00
Printed Dated Type Catalog
Lists the recognized printed dated controls with pricing for all types, 2004 ed.
$25.00 $27.50
International Precancel Catalog
Catalog of Foreign Precancels Except Can-ada, 2005, first ed. by John Randall
$25.00 $27.50
Handstamp Dated CD
1st Edition Catalog features more than 11.500 types, requires T&T software
$20.00 $20.00
Classics Catalog
Precancels with Town Names on US Issues of the Early Classic Period, Pre-1908, Part 1, 2011, ed. by Phil Cayford
$20.00 $22.00
Prices effective 01/11 include U.S. domestic postage via Media Mail. Foreign orders ADD $23.95 per catalog for postage. Payment due with order. Make check, drawn on a U.S. bank, or domestic or international money order pay-able to The Precancel Stamp Society.
Order from: PSS Catalogs, 3 Shady Creek Ln., Scarborough, ME 04074
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BUREAU PRECA�CELS
If you have needs in BUREAU PRECA�CELS, then feel free to send along your WA�T LIST or request our AP-
PROVAL BOOKS. In either case your needs will be given our attention and you should be able to fill in many of your blank album spaces.
The APPROVAL BOOKS are mounted (100 stamps per book) in the same order as the PSS Bureau Precancel Cata-log and the K&P Bureau Precancel Album. Thus it will not always be possible for us to send you just a single state. Your request may require an overlapping at the beginning and/or ending of the state. Sorry these mailing are re-stricted to U.S. addresses only unless you agree to assume airmail costs both ways. Your WA�T LIST can specify a limited amount, if your budget so dictates. Make such restrictions, if you so desire.
We also stock for immediate shipment (PLUS POSTAGE):
K&P BUREAU PRECA�CEL ALBUM $50.00
PSS BUREAU PRECA�CEL CATALOG
5th Edition, 2005 -- $15.00
DILMO�D D. POSTLEWAIT
P.O. BOX 1134
Wichita, KS 67201-1134
