Verb:

Overprint,

overprint's Usage Examples:

An overprint is an additional layer of text or graphics added to the face of a postage stamp, banknote or postal stationery after it has been printed.

A Hawaii overprint note is one of a series of banknotes (one silver certificate and three Federal Reserve Notes) issued during World War II as an emergency.

In 1893 seven different values of the existing stamps were overprinted to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of introduction of printing into.

Some stamps were regular issues overprinted while other were specially designed.

stamps, very few were left to be overprinted, and genuine overprints are quite rare, the rarest being the horizontal overprint on the 25c yellow at around.

provisional stamps came into use in the form of German definite stamps with overprints identifying the colony.

overprint.

The values from 25 lepta to 5 drachma have a red overprint or a black overprint with the word ΠΡΟΣΩΡΙΝΟΝ in small letters or no overprint.

A series of stamps overprinted "Mont-Athos" was issued in 1910.

(two different colours), £5 and £20 of Natal revenues overprinted ZULULAND in a similar overprint to that used for postage stamps.

but in 1899, they received stamps overprinted with "KITAI" (Russian for China) in Cyrillic script.

This overprint was applied to all types of stamps.

postage stamp was also issued with a locally produced Revenue overprint.

Despite the overprints, the revenue stamps issued between 1877 and 1888 were also.

Definitive British stamps were overprinted "M.

The stamps were overprinted "Morocco / Agencies" beginning in 1898, initially at the offices of the.

Anglo-French forces in 1915, when German Colonial stamps were issued with an overprint and surcharge; and the situation following a 1961 plebiscite, after which.

In one case, overprint on computer-printed output may be used to identify output from an unlicensed.

Missing overprint: A stamp valid for postage only when overprinted but with a missing overprint.

Double impression: Stamp, or overprint, was printed.

postage stamps overprinted "REVENUE".

Four values exist - 5c, 10c, 25c and 50c on 1s, and there are two different sizes of the overprint - 11mm and 12mm.

Later a 2¢ overprint appeared.

Provisional overprint for Cuba, 1899.

1856, Mexico issued its first adhesive postage stamps, with "district overprints", a unique feature among postal systems worldwide, employed to protect.

France for use in Zanzibar were French stamps of the "Type Sage" design, overprinted with denominations expressed in annas (i.

Synonyms:

print; surprint;

Antonyms:

gladden; empty; undercharge;