Over Prints On Backside?

I have found something I have not seen before is this a normal stamp or is it a freak?

Well from what I can find on Google, "aparoxal" is the name of some sort of pharmaceutical drug. Not something you'd expect to see on the back of a stamp!

lick the stamp and see what happens ;-)

Ha Ha what kind of drug? This is what it looked like on the digital blue 1 of them is mag 60x the other 200x what do you think anybody, I don't feel like licking it either

yep thats what google said some kind of drug but there also word in French.Why would that be on there?

It doesn't seem to be a French word. I can't find it in any online dictionary. As far as I can make out, it is just a brand name of a French drug for treating anxiety and nerves etc.

There are two possiblities, maybe more.
1) The drug listed here is the same name as the company that produced the drug.
Then this would be done as a control of stamp inventory to prevent thieft by employees.

2) This is could also be an acronim for a stamp expo

I could check Yfert one of the french specialize cats when I get home!

Mike

It is an advert for the pharmaceutical drug.

Here is another one from the same company, for a different pill:

Oh wow! A whole new (or old but yet not popular) collecting specialty. The possibilities for varieties be would be endless.

Marty

I like the way you think Marty,you always look on the bright side

so I don't get this control of stamp inventory how would you control it by this? I'm so confused yes Mike please find the answer

similar in practice to perfins. keeps employees from stealing the stamps to sell back to the PO. the PO clerks will know that they were issued to the company, and would only be returned to the PO by the appropriate personnel or by a thief.

I do not think so in this case. There are not that many companies on the French Antarctic Territories (if any) and if the company wanted to prefent stamp theft they would have printed the name of the company on the back (Laboratoires Veyron-Froment) and not the names of some of their products.
Probably stampcollectors are known to be nervous, epileptic and prone to anxiety attacks and therefore a good target for this kind of advertising.
Or stamps from TAAF are very popular among GPs

Advertising on stamps (front or back) has been around for awhile.

Here are some from a trial program run in New Zealand in the 1890s:


Sometimes, they appear on the front as part of a label, like in this Belgian stamp:


k