Same Stamp - With Overprint

Philippines official business (not very exciting )



And two from Jamaica commemorating the introduction of decimal currency in 1969.





Admittedly, the second one is pretty difficult to see under the heavy multiple cancels.

found one more: Pernau - German Occupation

Wow! I have a collection of these (12 folders and far from complete). Thanks for starting this thread. I love these sorts of stamps

I also love the varieties in overprints that come from these sorts of stamps.

Going from you to Z:



Uruguay





Venezuela






Zaire



Note the distance between the blockout box and the 15.000



Zambia

Some of my favourites from Ghana (along with varieties and movements across the perforations)

Brazil






British Honduras (Later Belize)





Bulgaria

Cochin State, in India, was surcharge- and overprint-happy, though to be fair, it was never done just to extract money from the collector.

For example, the 1933 1 Anna 8 Pies stamp of Maharaja Rama Varma III



became redundant not long after it appeared. This left stocks sitting around, taking up space in the State Treasury. What to do? Put them to use, of course:

Surcharge them with a new, lower value, in two forms:



and



and also



and



(A 'D' perfin, for the Dewaswom, the State Hindu Temple Administration)

But wait - as they say - there's more:

The stamps were also overprinted On C(ochin) G(overnment) S(ervice) for official use:



and also surcharged



and



and two flavours of ONE ANNA NINE PIES surcharge



and



to round things off.

A meal in itself, the Third Raja 1 Anna 8 Pies!

Or in a slight twist, this stamp



was only ever officially issued after being surcharged, like this:



although probably a sheet (of 48) of the unoverprinted stamps somehow got loose.

And in the same way, this surcharged stamp from 1949



was never officially issued without the surcharge, although there are copies on the market - at a price. It's also known with a black surcharge



but this is quite scarce. It might be a proof printing that was accidentally used for postage.

The original stamp was also overprinted for official use



which is quite common, and surcharged again



which isn't particularly easy to find.

I always knew there was only one...I just knew it.

Ooh, you are a nasty cynical man, Cjd!

Now here is another, from Bhopal State:



This was an error: it wasn't supposed to be released without the SERVICE overprint:



And something the same in this case:



The SERVICE overprint was omitted along the top row of one sheet of these stamps.

And a rather dramatic demotion from Indore (Holkar) State:



from 5 Rupees down to ¼ Anna - value reduced to one 320th of what it was before surcharging. Indore didn't really have all that much call for 5 Rupee stamps.

And because 'tis the season of goodwill to all men, even Rod222,



A Travancore round trip: from ordinary stamp, to official (overprinted SERVICE) and back to ordinary (overprinted SPECIAL to indicate that the stamp was no longer for official use)

India: Some more overprints from Cochin State




India: ICC (Int. Commission on Indo-China (1965-8)) overprint




Indonesia: In January 1950, new stamps were issued inscribed Republik Indonesia Serikat or "RIS" (United States of Indonesia)





Italy: At the end of the Second World War Yugoslav forces occupied part of the Istrian peninsula around Trieste, and while the political map was negotiated the area was divided into two parts, Zone A and Zone B. Zone A was occupied by the Allies and used Italian stamps overprinted AMG-FTT. Zone B was occupied by by Yugoslav forces and used Yugoslav stamps overprinted VUJA S.T.T.

Are you trying to upstage me, Peterethio?

Here are the other two variations on the Cochin theme:

And these from Bahawalpur I've just posted elsewhere, but which properly belong here:



The 1948 high values, and overprinted (SARKARI in Urdu in red) for official use