The earliest and latest recorded uses of both the dial varieties and different killers are crosstabulated in Table 3. In addition, table 4 charts the various cancellations in order of their appearance. This compilation generally confirms the sequencing noted in the earlier article. Looking at these tables, one can make several observations:

• Simpler killers, such as grids, are concentrated in the middle years of the decade. The latest grid variety killer (Table 2, killer Grid3) appears in mid-1887 through early 1888. Figure 4 shows an example of this killer.
• The letter S killers (Table 2, killers S1 through S5) clearly congregate together as the first letter appearing in the Barre killers. Killer S1 is unusual in that it appears in early 1884. The remaining letter S killers show usage from mid-1886 through early 1887. The only non-letter S killer overlapping this period is the letter R in vertical ellipse (Table 2, killer R1). This killer also has the distinction of the longest period of recorded use, more than a year from late 1886 to early 1888. Notably, the two covers from the Alden correspondence that establish this lengthy use show little deterioration in the quality of the killer, perhaps indicating discontinuous use over this period.
• Be wary of reported dates of use in cancellation catalogs. Cole (Cancellations and Killers of the Banknote Era 1870-1894) reports usage of killer W2a, overlaid "WH" (or is it an "MH"?) in circular horizontal grid, from May 23, 1887 to September 19, 1887. The one cover with this cancellation reported in the Beane collection dates February 1889 and it bears an immaculate strike. Killers with detailed carving like P1 invariably deteriorate rapidly from use. Thus, it is unlikely that killer W2a could have lasted this long without recarving.
• Not only did killer W2a not last in its pristine state from late 1887 to early 1889, but also it is highly likely that it lasted but a few days before being recarved into killer W2b. The date of the one reported W2a cover illustrated in the earlier article is not entirely distinct. Roger Curran reported it as FEB 2?, 1889. My examination of this indistinct digit in the photograph, compared to similar dials from covers in the Alden correspondence, leads me to conclude that the digit is the numeral 3. Since the earliest recorded use of the W2b killer is February 25, 1889, the W2a killer may have had a life of but a few days. Besides this sequencing of the W2a and W2b killers, I conclude recarving of killer W2a as the source for the W2b killer. I base this upon a magnified examination of a detailed strike on postal card (UX9) from the Alden correspondence dated February 26, 1889. Figure 5 contains an enlargement of this strike. I have added arrows at both left and right that point to the remains of the incompletely removed vertical bars of the deleted letter "H". Additionally, I conclude that the W2c killer is a well worn and deteriorated version of the W2b killer that has either lost its short horizontal side bars or had them cut away. Examination and measurements of the W2c killers pictured in the earlier article and their early 1890 usage lead me to this conclusion.

Figure 5

• Cancellation Club member Ted Wassam provides an example of a previously unreported Barre letter killer that demonstrates another possible re-carving. I record this killer in Table 2 as killer J3a. Figure 6 illustrates this cover, dated April 16, 1889. This date is less than one month before the single recorded date of use for killer J3b pictured in Figure 16 of the earlier article. Note that the J3a killer has a circular arch above and below the grid surrounding the letter "J", missing on J3b either because they broke away with use or were removed.

Figure 6

# The EKU cover dated 1/21 (1890, based upon the two Beane covers) is reported by Bob Markovits.

* The EKU and LKU dates for killer MJC1 are based, respectively, on a cover that I have previously handled and Cole's listed date of use for killer ML-68, a very worn version of the MJC1 killer. The LKU date for killer J2 comes from a cover in the retail stock of postal history dealer and USCC member Ed Hines.