A Few Questions On Pakistani Stamps

I have a few questions on a few different Pakistani stamps:

1 - Below is Scott # 82 (1956) and Scott # 265 (1969). Both are of minimal value without the overprints, but I am wondering if they are worth anything with the Bangladesh overprints on them?



2 - These overprints look like Type A40 (1961-1970), and they show some overprints for this series in Scott, but not overprints like what you see on these stamps. Can anyone help identify these overprinted ones by Scott # please?



3 - This one is also Type A40 and I think it is Scott #140, but is that an overprint on it or cancel? I don't think it is a cancel because the gum on the back looks mint.



Cheers... Marc

There is very limited information about Bangladesh postmaster provisionals, but they do exist.
The overprints are in Bengali, I don't know what it states. These are collectible, but forgeries are plentiful and is likely the main reason they are generally overlooked in catalogues.
Mike

The Bangladesh overprints on Pakistani issues are collectable. Due to the overprints being "local" in nature (carried out locally with a very wide range of types, names, methods & colurs) they are not listed in catalogues.

Some you can work out relatively easily (such as this cover from Dacca)...



Others with some difficulty...



And then there are piles like this, some with good town/village strikes, others less so...

they are all overprints. I can only read part of the bengali script but at least I can understand the language.

Thanks, I realize I should have posted the first stamps I was talking about instead of just giving the Scott numbers so that people could see what I am referring to. I have now edited my original post and you can now see the Pakistani stamps with the Bangladesh overprints show above.

As for the others in Bengali, they are above as well and I guess no one is really certain if they are worth anything or not. As regular A40 Type stamps in Scott I don't think they are worth much.

Cheers...

As has been said, these are collectable. These overprints, like the Pakistan provisionals of 1947 overprinted on Indian stamps, are probably a lot more interesting than the basic stamps of Pakistan or Bangladesh, but are not covered in the main catalogues.

They are best collected on cover, but even then there are many fakes and philatelic usages. Off cover or on piece they are much more difficult to make sense of, and so easy to forge, most of them being rubber-stamps.

The one I haven't seen before of those you posted initially is the clear machine-printed type, which is inverted on your copies. I am guessing these are fake, although I may be wrong.

Thanks. Which part of the overprint appears inverted? Or do you possibly mean the text appears to be upside down?

I believe the whole thing is inverted. The bars should be across PAKISTAN at the top, not the value at the bottom, and the Bengali script is inverted.

i wouldnt think too much of it and it would still be a mystery on why fake something that is available by the kilo.

Inverted overprint

thats right dont stop till you reach the bank :)