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Doug Kelsey (5) also used the catalog tables to determine in Table 5 (also updated andpublished in a Linn’s Stamp News article) the relative scarcity of “provisional issues”, theuse of slugs to temporarily revalue a single denominational meter to another rate.Sometimes the proper die was being prepared and sometimes the rate was neededtemporarilyTable 6Provisional Rates Obtained using Temporary Rate SlugsDenomination +surchargePitney-Bowes(CA, CK)Mailometer(CB)International(CD)U.S. PostalMeter(CH)Total postagemeters1¢+1/2¢ 15 21 1 371¢+1¢ 2 1 1 41¢+2¢ 1 11 1/2¢+1/2¢ 1 12¢+1¢ 1414 4 66 110 15942¢+2¢ 3 33¢+1¢ 1 1 23¢+2¢ 1 13 1/2¢+1¢ 1 14¢+1/2¢ 4 44¢+1¢ 1 14¢+2¢ 22 1 1 245¢+1¢ 2 26¢+1¢ 1 16¢+2¢ 1 18¢+1¢ 1 114¢+1¢ 1 117¢+1¢ 3 318¢+1¢ 1 119¢+2¢ 2 222¢+2¢ 1 11 cent only (1 1/2¢ 34 34stamps revalued to 1¢ in1928)Total 1513 26 68 113 172017

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