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62 Overprint & Surcharge Stamps !
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The listing, 62 Overprint & Surcharge Stamps ! has ended.

62 Overprint Stamps. Why does a stamp ended up having a stamped letter, number, date etc. on them...

Countries include: Iran (Postes Persanes), Old China, Italy, Iraq, Pakistan, Germany (Deutsches Reich), China Surcharge, Greece (EAAAE), Bosnia Hergovenia, Austria (Osterriech), Bulgaria, Beligue, Romania, Canada, Argentina, Colombia airmail overprint, Middle Congo (Moyen Congo), Guyana, and a brokers note from India!

1915 K.u.K. Feldpost overprints on military field stamps from Bosnia Hercegovina with the portrait of Austrian emperor Franz Jozeph.

Italy airmail stamp, pegasus is 1944-45 with the overprinted letters: PM, "Posta Militare", a miltary stamp and was for ordinary usage during stamp shortage, 1944-45.

Red train china stamp: East China is a surcharge, meaning the original value of the stamp (20) was blocked out and the new amount of 50 was printed on top.

1932 Iraq: ON STATE SERVICE overprint is an "official" stamp.

Colombia stamp with the letter "A" - 1950, used by the Avianca Company, a private carrier with a permit to carry mail.

Pakistan, crescent & star ,1949 – 1953

Canada w/ letter "G" overprint:
"Gouvernement"; overprint on official stamps of Canada, replaced the previous "official" overprint O.H.M.S. as the result of complaints from French Canadians.

1943 Governo Militare Alleato overprint, Italy, Allied
Military Government.

The stamps that are similar from Greece (EAAAE) all have different overprints, and a lot are overprinted for different countries, starting from 1912 (New Greece, Lemnos, etc).

Many other overprint stamps, many from 1920's and up.
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I will add more descriptions as I find them. Auction ends around 7:00 PM, California time (8, 9 or 10PM east coast, depending on where in the USA you live). Saturday night.
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