Here's a batch of 4 Belgian stamps with interesting overprints. The first seems to indicate that the stamp was valid for postage from 1.1.48 to 31.12.48. Why not just write '1948,' then? Maybe that's what they eventually decided to do, because the overprint on the next stamp just reads '1966.' I'm a bit confused about the third stamps, which reads 1960 1961. The last one has a red overprint showing wings - presumably this means that it was a regular stamp converted into an express one.
Does anyone know what these overprints were about, so to speak?
Posted 12/21/2010 7:08 pm
