Very early in the publication of this blog, back in 2009, I ran a series of posts on the material below, which was in Henry Tolman's (ARA Member #25) 1898 precancel collection. Rather than roll out these stamps one at a time like I did in 2009, I'm simply posting all four pages of his subtypes of the type 2 AMEX precancels.
The subtypes include everything from inking variations to alignment of the year date under "X" of the cancel. There is a bit of fly-specking going on here, which I find much more interesting as long as I'm not the one identifying the idiosyncracies of these stamps.
Note that I've removed a couple of stamps from the pages to add to other portions of my collection.
The missing stamp at left in the middle is a Fullerton listed variety, "No period after "Ex". I've posted that stamp in the varieties post.
The mising stamp above is the stamp with the "Wetherell's Express" handstamp, previously posted in the AMEX uses post.
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