Saturday, July 27, 2024

A Collector's Guide to 1898 Documentary Printed Precancels: the Gould's Missouri Pacific Railway

There are two collectible types of MOPAC precancels, including the most common with lettering 2mms high, and a second very rare type with approximately 1.8mm high letters.  For the first, more common type, one cent and two cent battleship stamps both roulette and hyphen-hole may be found.  For the second type, only a hyphen-hole one cent battleship example is known.

Significant press varieties exist of the type one on the one cent battleship.


Type 1: One cent roulette


Type 1: One cent hyphen-hole


Type 1: One cent roulette horizontal split cancel


Type 1: One cent hyphen-hole inverted cancel



Type 1: Two cent roulette


Type 1: Two cent hyphen-hole



Type 2: One cent hyphen-hole


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