Same Stamp - With Overprint

Wow...look at all these overprints!
I have some more from Greece.

Some more from Argentinia

From Polen
S.O. 1920: (Fr.) Silésie Orientale 1920 (Eastern Silesia), overprint on stamps of Czechoslovakia and Poland for 1920 plebiscite, which was never held.

No Tony, just a fellow admirer.

I would not be able to upstage your excellent scans but I was pleased that I had some to contribute of a similar nature.

And thank you for raising the subject of Cochin. That thicket of overprints and surcharges, and recess and litho printings, from the late 1930s onwards can be eye-glazing at first, but it's well worthwhile digging into. I ignored it for many years, but I've finally begun to explore it, and I must say I'm enjoying it.

The Cochin offset-litho 1 Anna of 1938 went through a fair few permutations as well. It started out as the plain stamp:



Next year, the Cochin post office decided to distinguish between revenue stamps and postage ('Anchal') stamps. They overprinted the 1 Anna 'ANCHAL' in large letters



and small letters



but didn't need all of them, so they them surcharged 6 PIES on the large ANCHAL



onto small ANCHAL stamps perf 11



and onto small ANCHAL stamps perf 13x13½



and in two styles of NINE PIES



and



and then there are the Official overprints ...

Porto: (Ger.) 1. postage. (Ger.) 2: inscription on postage due labels of Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Jugoslavia, Liechtenstein,






Different colors....

These stamps are Turkish officials. There are many variations of the overprints used on these. Originals issued 1 March 1948.

• 1 March 1951 - straight lines, large crescent, neat star almost touching crescent, star pointing down, black overprint
  
• 1953 - straight lines, large crescent, untidy star touching crescent, star pointing down, brown or green overprint
  
• 27 Sept 1954 - straight lines, large crescent, untidy star touching crescent, star pointing down, black overprint
  
• 25 May 1955 - wavy lines, small crescent, neat small star clear of the crescent, star pointing up, black overprint surcharges with serifs
  
• 25 May 1955 - 40k on 1 Lire, wavy lines, small crescent, neat small star clear of the crescent, star pointing down, black overprint surcharges with serifs
  
• 1955 - wavy lines, small crescent, neat larger star almost touching the crescent, star pointing up, black overprint surcharges without serifs
  
• 1956 - wavy lines, large crescent, neat star almost touching the crescent, star pointing down, black overprint surcharges without serifs
  
• 20 Oct 1957 - wavy lines, anemic crescent, very rough star clear of the crescent, star pointing down, black overprint surcharges without serifs

Below are some examples.




Sorry I don't have the unoverprinted stamp of this set.

The same information presented more clearly in a table:

Some Yugoslav overprints:

A few examples from Travancore, converted to Travancore-Cochin after Indian Independence, with the currency changed from Travancore chuckrams to Indian annas, and overprinted for official use as well:





to





and



to

Chile


This 6c stamp (issued 15 May 1965, SG 555) was overprinted with 10c (issued Feb to July 1970, SG T639) as a Compulsory Tax stamp. They (a blue 2c stamp was also overprinted) had to be applied on all inland mail. The money was used for postal modernisation. "Art. 77 LEY 17272" means Article 77 of Law 17272.

Well, I forgive myself for this one. Just cannot find a 1 so I am showing a 1.20 with and overprint.
The 1 has been canceled on Oct. 1, 1940 in Prag. The other one
with overprint honors a 5 year occasion.Anybody know?





Thanks.

A couple from China

The Sacred Cows issues of Bundi State in India provide endless opportunities for this sort of comparison. Here is an example on one of the printings of the 3 Anna value



and a sheet with the Hindi Official overprint



These stamps are known as the 'Sacred Cows' because they reference the story of a (Hindu) ruler of Bundi protecting cows (sacred to Hindus) from the (Muslim) Mughal Emperor in Delhi a couple of hundred years earlier. Specialists recognise 57 different settings of these stamps ...

The Official overprints are a bit of a cheat, really. They were created purely for sale to collectors. For most of the time the stamps were in existence, official mail was carried free: no need for Official stamps at all. To add interest, for collectors, the Bundi Post Office also applied overprints, small and large, BUNDI SERVICE in English, and in red and green as well as black, and in just about any position one of the sahibs asked for - inverted, sideways, double, on the back of the stamp, half on the stamp and so on. Here for example is a basic ¼ Anna



and here a sheet with the red Hindi Official overprint sideways



and here is a sheet with the large English overprint, in black and upright



The permutations of the Sacred Cows keep a small army of specialists off the streets and out of mischief ...