Regime Change "Issues" -- Got Any?

More weirdness.

I don't know if there is an actual term for this. If so, correct me. Here is Netherlands Indies - Japanese occupation issue for Java, Scott #N10:

The Japanese inscription is (partly) crossed off in indelible pencil/copying pencil. I suspect but obviously can't confirm that this was used during a period after the surrender. The cancel is murky but is at least the boxed type used in the Indies.

Sure, this could have been done privately by a revolution-minded clerk or later by some collector's evil little brother. But I've seen other similar things from elsewhere that could have been used during an interim period during a revolution or regime change. For example:

- Laos #C89 Orchid with "Royaume de" neatly crossed off in ballpoint. Usage would jibe with Pathet Lao and N. Vietnamese control of parts of the country c.1972 and later. I have this packed away somewhere (yeah, yeah).

- Iran #667, etc. Ahmed Shah Qajar defins. He was actually out of power by the time this issue was released in 1924-25 and formally deposed in October 1925. I've seen but was not able to buy some used low values of this issue with his head covered with cut pieces of gummed brown paper tape, cancelled over stamp and tape.

Again, these were just single stamps suspected of provisional-type usage, but without provable usage. Covers would be more convincing, covers to foreign destinations better still.

You could maybe add in the rubberstamped issues for Ghana on Gold Coast stamps, Bangladesh on Pakistan issues, German overprints on Czechoslovakia, German Hitler heads with head blotted out, etc. but I've seen only favor-cancelled covers, lots of dubious mint stamps plus proven fakes.

So, do you have any similar suspected-to-be-postally-used items out there?

On the night of May 28-9, 1903 King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were assassinated by a group of army officers the royal palace in Belgrade. Within a month, a new set of 10 stamps which had been printed, but not issued, were overprinted with the Serbian coat of arms, obliterating King Alexander's portrait.

Eight values of the un-overprinted stamps are cataloged by Michel.

Not seen that stamp before.
Looks like a boxed in Japanese.
The only boxed impressions I have seen are
NED INDIES / VIA MARSEILLES
Which was the fastest route home to the Neth.

very interesting info, thank you

Rod, there are Japanese censor marks in a split rectangular box, but all I have seen (the few I've seen in auction catalogs and the like) are violet and filled with all Japanese characters. I've now also discounted the killers of the machine cancels I've seen from the 30's. This doesn't look like the boxed paquebot marking either. By the by, the occupiers did use old Dutch cancels for the most part, so the time period of use is still indeterminate.

So I submit this for everyone's perusal/headache:

"The best I can do" is a lame excuse, but it's the best I can do. And now I see T. T. at the bottom, TIMBRE TAXE i.e. "postage due" I'm thinking, where French would be used on international mail markings. Whose is it? Is it French? And is that an A, K, X or ? at the end of the top line? A lot of you guys are pretty good at deciphering stuff, feel free to give it a shot.

I've checked the old worldwide collection and rolled through ebay and haven't found the cancel I thought this was originally. But it looked much like this Dutch cancel of the 1930s (stamp only valid from Dec. 1933 to 1938, so no late usage shenanigans):

It was SOERABAJA if I remember right, with a date-like code on the other line, rather long in width like this appears to be. Is this one some kind of auxiliary marking or something else?

like the 1952 Egyptian revolution?

they overprinted bars across the image of Deposed King Farouk.

This is an example of the double bar overprint, a famous error and very collectable.

Very nice, you guys! Keep 'em coming.

1919 stamps of Bavaria and Wurtemberg are another example. They were a soviet state (Volksstadt) for a short while, then, after the Communists were defeated, a republic (Freiestadt), and later rejoined the Reich.

Don

Also in the 50's, Egypt occupied part of the new county of Israel, the Gaza strip, which is still Palestine and overprinted Egyptian stamps with "Palestine".

Here is my set.

As fate would have it, I just acquired something that is similar to what I noted in the OP. Instead of paper tape, Ahmed Shah Qajar's face has been blotted out in ink. It would be nice to have a dateable cancel but I'm still happy to have this -- a mutilated stamp:

They really didn't like this guy.

The most obvious examples of this type of material are all the Hitler heads obliterated at the end of WWII, both genuine and created later.