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77. Local precancel varieties: Most precanceling was done at the local level, and the quality control was hardly equivalent to that of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Varieties abound, including inverts, partial prints, doubled and tripled impressions, misspellings and misregistrations. For the most part, they have little value, and then only to specialists who know how to evaluate their relative scarcity.
Type 77: Some of the variations that can be found on local precancels. From left to right: Scott J68, 566, 803, 560.
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