Mexico 1872 Anotado Overprint

Am I seeing what I want to see, or this stamp has faint Anotado overprint?

Can't really see it too well, but the top stamp should be flipped 180 degrees. I see Mexico on the bottom, but can't make out the city/state.

My reading of my ancient SG catalogue is that the diagonal "Anotado" overprint is the norm. There's also a reference to the combination of "Mexico" and the names of smaller offices. And the phrase "dangerous forgeries" also pops up more than once!

Regards.

Geoff

Soory- on a second viewing, see what you're getting at. I think it would be a stretch to see the Anotado beneath the vertical overprints!

Yes, it is a big stretch. But, if you assume that the blip of ink covers "A", and "do" is nearly invisible (underinked); then, what remains of "A", and letters forming "nota" look very damn similar to Anotado overprint in my Scott catalog.

danko, if you haven't perused this site yet, take a look...a very specific discussion of the overprint:

http://anotados.mepsi.org/examine.htm

Cjd

Thank you very much for the link. Unfortunately, my example only have "nota" more or less clearly visible out of whole overprint. I can't really compare it to the example, and can't measure it too. From what I can see my letters are much heavier, but kind of similar to the example. I assumed, being a hand stamp it can have a great variation in the weight of the overprint; beside "more than one overprinting devise was used". It meets the time and location criteria, but as noted by the author "Unless the anotado fits the profile exactly, consider it to be a forgery". Anyhow, genuine or forgery, I'm inclined to believe it is an "Anotado" overprint, and not something else. Given the condition of the overprint, even a specialist would have a hard time determining its authenticity.