Indian Overprints - Question For Experts

It's not an earth-shattering one by any means but I am curious. This illustrated stamp is a very common one but has an interesting overprint in a purplish ink and quite ornate typeface.

It looks like a partial place name (from the ...pore)and possibly Southern in the first word but it really does not look like a ..u in front of the t, more like o.

I suppose this might be a private precancel of some sort, an early version of a state overprint, or possibly just a doodle by someone with time on their hands. Makes me curious though. Any suggestions out there?

I have run across something similar on a Ceylon stamp which I am trying to locate and will add to this page later if I manage some successful archaeology.





I found it. And in the first place I looked too. I am good! Always wondered if this was simply a warning, in Latin, to beware of something.

The Ceylon CAVE overprint has already come up here before:

https://goscf.com/t/7186

http://members.shaw.ca/d.braam/Cave.html

The first stamp isn't a precancel - India didn't have pecancels - just a private security stamp of some sort, to prevent theft. The first place name that comes to mind with '...npore' is Cawnpore (modern Kanpur), but it really might be any of dozens of possibilities.

The CAVE overprints were also discussed here http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopi...64&p=1769385

Thank you both for the CAVE information. I would not have thought that a simple overprint by a private company at that would create a topic that would create a study firld like the article generated for this.

I am not surprised that the India example was not identifiable, particularly as it was only a partial print. Nice to know that my guess that it represented a place was correct at least.

Just for the sake of interest I am attaching one more anti-theft device or, perhaps, an advertisement? Tried narrowing down the field of possibility but do you realize how many businesses named Fletcher's Drug Store there were in Canada. Narrowed it down in time to about 6 possibles though.

I refer to the India examples as "Commercial Overprints"
as an antitheft device as Tony explained.
I collect them.

To enable collectors to search and locate your thread
it would be advisable to change your thread title
to something like "Indian Overprints" or similar

Possibly the Lutheran Mission Cawnpore,
which had an extensive workshop for training young boys
including a printing press.
May be an indication of the elaborate script.

Thank you, Rod. I will take your suggestion and rename the thread with Indian overprints included in the title. And yes, I can certainly see how "Lutheran" would fit into the first word of the overprint quite nicely.

Nice overprint on the Admiral stamp backroads. This is the first time I saw this.

It is amazing what you can find out there.

Chimo

Bujutsu

i am no longer an expert I see :)

i have these stamps