Free Printed Dated Precancel News (PDPN) Album for Download
The Precancel Stamp Society (PSS) is providing another free set of album pages——Printed Dated Precancel News (PDPN) Album. These pages contain entries, in chronological order for all of the stamps used on the PDPN mailings from 1957 until 1973.
There is space for a printed dated precancel or integral type set for each stamp used. There are spaces for the 306 different items, including some varieties. The pages have been formatted with an attractive border and offset for hole punching on the left side. A box is shown for each type from each town, and all the types for each date are grouped together.
Inside each box is information about the dated control or integral type set used. You can obtain the PSS Printed Dated Type Precancel Catalog, which is described at the end of this article and which includes prices and detailed information for each type. There is also a companion PDPN database that goes along with the album pages and can serve as a checklist and includes images of the different types.
We recommend experimenting and only printing several pages just to make sure that your printer is set up correctly. There are many small differences in the way printers produce a page, and you may want to slightly reduce the pages by perhaps 2% if the page borders are clipped. Similarly, some three-hole punches are overly aggressive and place the holes too close to the left border. So it is worthwhile to experiment a bit.
To distinguish the Printed Dated types and determine the prices, you may need the PSS Printed Dated Type Precancel Catalog, which you can order from PSS Catalogs HERE.
The PSS Printed Dated Precancel News (PDPN) database can be ordered from PSS Catalogs HERE.
PSS Printed Dated Precancel News (PDPN) Album (09/2017 Update):