Morocco Overprint Question.

Hello everyone. I recently bought this cover for the best reason, because I liked it. When I recieved it I noticed the remark in pencil written above the stamps. It indicates the larger space between the 1 and 0 in the 10 of the overprint compared to the other stamps. I now wider overprints exist. Can anyone confirm to me that this is the actual variation. As always, I am not looking for a value, I simply want to give the cover the correct description. Thanks for your help.
kind regards, Johan

Unfortunately, neither Maury nor Yvert illustrates the wider spacing - I shall have to look at my now duplicates now!

Meanwhile, here's the house

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...AYnI1ZhA!2e0

Johan, very nice cover. And yes, I believe the wider spacing exists. For one thing, I can see it on your cover, and I do not believe that cover is a philatelic creation.
But it raises another question. Why overprint a stamp with the same value?


Peter

Hello Peter, I believe the stamps normal value of 10 is valid for normal postal use, The overprint value of 10 is an extra for the Red Cross.

This set was issued with the these surcharges before the further red cross surcharges were added.

Here the new value is 10 centimes (in blue for postage in blue) + 5 centimes (in red for the Red Cross).

I think the original surcharges were to clarify the currency for the Arab-speaking public so instead of just having "10" in the corner there was now also a large blue "10 centimes" (with "centimes" in Arabic).

These are interesting stamps. There were two overprints.

First, a blue "10 + Arabic" overprint was issued in 1911 (Ceres/Yvert No. 29). This overprint exists with "10" missing, or with the third (upper right) blue dot missing in Arabic (on your stamps this third dot is overlapped by the black "A"in "FRANÇAIS"). There are also imperf varieties but they exist mint only.

Second, black overprint "PROTECTORAT FRANÇAIS" was issued in 1914 (Ceres/Yvert No. 41). This overprint exists on yellowish paper, with inverted "S" in "FRANÇAIS", with the blue overprint missing altogether, and with "10" missing in the blue overprint.

None of these are observed on your envelope, as far as I can see. But a multitude of errors made in these issues suggests that a widely spaced blue "10" may be a constant overprint variety, listed in some more specialized catalog of French Marocco.

hi; Some additional links...of interest
http://www.timbres-du-maroc.info/bl...s-1912-1956/



http://www.philafrica.be/MAGHREBOPH...S%202016.pdf