Your Favourite Overprint

Does anyone have a favourite overprint that they would like to share?





This is one of my favourite overprints. It looks like the Philippines stamp authority brought out the left overs from the 1972 Olympic Games issue and ran an overprint over them for the 1976 games 4 years later.

Hi! peterethio

These N W Pacific Islands are one of my favourites.

Thanks for the opp to post! John

I could go on and on ... and on and on, but here are a couple:

Charkhari SG 56, the 1 ANNA surcharge on 1 Rupee of 1939



because it's one of my most valuable items, and this one, with Cochin SG 77 and 97.



because it makes a rather pleasing composition. I also like the rather bold Persian SARKARI (government service) overprint on these Hyderabad 2 Annas of 1909, SG O24:

Romania have some good ones.









Yasser Arafat had a great idea........



....so did the APS !



Next, an Underprint !

Londonbus1

Like Tony, I could go on and on and on.......

I figured that if we all showed our favourite, the thread would soon die. So I have some more.......

A Kerek Kayemet L'israel [JNF] label showing the National Stadium for the Maccabiah Games, but overprinted for sale as a memorium issue for the Israeli athletes that were massacred at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
A set of 4 with both Red and Black overprints. The other three have charity values and are in Green,Brown and blue but with the same design. I have shown the unvalued label.





An enterprising dealer overprinted non-logo Boots label panes to make money for the victims of the Tsunami.
The sheet shown is for Thailand. Similar sheets with different colour overprints are for Indonesia,India and Sri Lanka.
Just one shown for an example.



Londonbus1

Upside down!

Overprint [surcharge] on Postal Stationery.

Airmail overprint.

For an Englishman, a very distressing overprint.

Thanks for sharing these amazing overprints.

Some more favourites. Evidently Pres Marcos was unaware that "Help me stop smuggling" can be read in two ways





These Sri Lankan stamps look like they overprinted the 2.00 to 2.50 and the 2.50 to 2.00

My favourite is this one





No, no, wait.....it's this one...






Eek, this is it....





Oh, I give up

Well, I like the 1935 surcharges from Bhopal. That year, postage rates increased, and the State PO found itself short of ¼ Anna (equivalent to 3 Pies) and 1 Anna stamps, so it started surcharging. A small problem arose, though. The printers didn't have enough '¼'s to surcharge more than the top two rows of each sheet, so they fell back on '¼A' on the top two rows, and 'THREE PIES' for the remaining eight rows:



(SG O318b)

but the printers being only human, accidents did happen



(SG O318ba)

Two units on the left with double overprint.

Double overprint.

A spectacular double overprint.

A couple more little slip-ups from the Bhopal surcharges (only God is perfect, after all) ...



'THEEE' for "THREE', position 4 - SG O319 and O319a



'THRFE' for 'THREE', position 2 - SG O319 and O319b, and



Inverted ONE ANNA surchage, SG O326a