Same Stamp With Different Overprints Of The Same Text

I was reading the fascinating topic "Topics for which there aren't any seconds?" and had a thought How about stamps overprinted with the same text but in different fonts or sizes (different colours doesn't count). I found one but know there are more.

Several British colonies during WWI had George V definitives overprinted with War Stamp or War Tax in a variety of fonts and sizes (and colours), and the words in one line or two lines. There seem to be rather a lot from Trinidad & Tobago.

Cochin State, in India, had some trouble deciding on the font to use for its Official overprints. They were all On C(ochin) G(overnment) S(ervice), but they did tinker around in the 1920s and 1930s:





and with the next Maharaja as well,





And just to add a bit of interest for collectors, they not only changed the font, they also changed the printing process, from recess



to litho



and



All good, clean fun!

Beautifully scanned stamps Tony. Thanks for sharing them.

There is some variety in Argentinian Departmentals too:

Soruth in India also played fast and loose with its SARKARI (= OFFICIAL) overprints:



The neat sans-serif letters were done at the Indian Security Printing Press, at Nasik Road, which also printed the stamps; the slightly wobbly seriffed overprint was done at the Junagadh State Press in Soruth. The latter types are usually scarcer. In the last days of Soruth State, supplies of official overprints ran low in several places, and local officials wrote SARKARI in manuscript over the stamps as well. Gibbons prices them at £130 each on piece.

Some Bulgarian stamps. I almost didn't buy the second one as I remembered I had a 16CT overprint. Please excuse the posting of the same stamps on two different threads.

In the 1930s, Jaipur State, in India, was having its stamps very professionally printed by the Indian Government printer at Nasik Road. The same printer overprinted its official stamps for it as well. However, Jaipur briefly found itself short of ¼ Anna stamps in 1936, and so overprinted a small supply of ¼ Anna stamps for official use itself:



Not a bad job, really: the local overprint is at left

The Jaipur stamps are so sharp...thanks for the heads up on the differing overprint.

It would be good to be king (or at least maharaja).

Cjd, if you were lucky enough to be Amir of Bahawalpur, and a collector



(Ordinary + official (red overprints))

you had it made: recess printed by De La Rue, at the height of their post-WWII powers

In profile, a dead ringer for a college roommate.

Here are two postal tax airmails from Ecuador:



That makes them RAC1 and RAC2, in Scott-land.

Vanuatu: Different font for the 5.

A couple more from Argentina