India 1947 Overprinted With Pakistan ?

Hey team

The kind sir from the last topic I was on lead me to this wee chap. iv had a look around but not having the scott catalogue which I endeavour to purchase, will explain what I have. thanks in advance

Hi.
Most likely Pakistan # 4 ( in any major catalogue )
From a set of 12 stamps,issued on October 1st,1947

You might look for Stanley Gibbons catalogs as well; Pakistan would be included in the Commonwealth one. They might be found in your local library. The Scott worldwide catalogs have been in 6 large volumes for years now and near-new older volumes can be bought reasonably on eBay or Amazon. From the 2019 version (issued in 2018), it's now in 12 less back-breaking volumes. However, most of these will be from the US and the postage will be quite high. You might give dealers in NZ a ring or email to see what they might have.

Join a stamp local club !

You'll pick up old Stanley Gibbons catalogues for a song, even free !
(But Ugh!)
Stay with Scott would be my mantra. Have both if you possibly can.

Pakistan Officials
(Not my image)

thanks hy-brasil and vayolene, scouring the local market now. And Rod222! thats impressive.. give me a few years and maybe il catch up!

I've come across two versions of the Pakistan overprint. Wondering if there are known forgeries of the overprint. Any opinions welcome.

"PAKISTAN" exists both as printed and handstamped, ergo, your varieties....

Rod

I see. The Pakistan handstamp also appears to come in two sizes. The larger variety on the image I posted.

There are a number of local overprints that were created for Pakistan. The overprint you typically see was done at Nasik. The other ones are probably from the various Post Offices that were modifying their stock of Indian stamps for use in the newly created Pakistan. They are certainly collectable. Here are some from my collection on the page below. If you would like to see the whole collection, use this URL
http://www.kgvistamps.com/PageScans...Pakistan.htm

KGVIStamps

Quite the collection you have. Nice to know there is a wide variety of overprints. Certainly makes collecting them more of a challenge. Thank you for the link. Best reference tool I've seen on these issues.

Nice work KGVl stamps...

Thanks for the compliments. I am in the process of putting my whole collection on the site. Here is a link to the index of the pages.

http://www.kgvistamps.com/KGVIStamp...lection.html

See engraved portraits of KG6 soon to be posted on Great Britain on Steiner pages thread....
https://goscf.com/t/54589&whichpage=24#615743