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Johnny Kaxe
Great Britain, Want list
Great Britain, Want list
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Official overprints are British stamps used outside England or used for special purposes (I.R. Official, Royal Household etc.). I am interested in all of them. If you have a postally used cover I am very very interested. Here are some examples: 
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Private overprints were made by different companies. Some companies made holes in the stamps, forming a few letters (these are called perfins), others printed the company name in letters on the stamp. It seems that most with overprints were not used as postage stamps, but as revenues/fiscals on documents. I am not interested in stamps with holes, but I am collecting all the stamps I can find with overprints. The overprints are quite common especially on 2d. stamps from the 60's. Here are some examples: 
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Some Victorian stamps can be found with printing on the back of the stamps. It is not seen so often and the stamps are never cheap. All are catalogued by Stanley Gibbons. If you find one, please let me now. The official and catalogued 13 different types of underprints are: 
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