Knowledge / Prints / Postage Stamp Overprints / Kinds

Postage stamp overprint kind: summary of the different intended styls of a postage stamp overprint

With postage stamp overprint: postage stamp issued with postage stamp overprint as intended style

Without postage stamp overprint: post-age stamp issued without postage stamp overprint as intended style. This will only be shown when the same postage stamp was also issued with postage stamp overprint

Provisional postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with provisional postage stamp overprint

Official postage stamp overprint: post-age stamp with postage stamp overprint ordered by a public postal administration

Private postage stamp overprint: post-age stamp with postage stamp overprint ordered by a private person or company

Without postage stamp overprint unissued postage stamp: postage stamp unissued without postage stamp overprint but reached the stamp market

Country postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint issued for the whole area of a postal administration

Region postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint issued for a region (province postage stamp overprint, zone postage stamp overprint)

Local postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint issued for a local area (postmaster postage stamp overprint, town postage stamp overprint)

Single postage stamp overprint: sheet every postage stamp is showing a complete postage stamp overprint

Multiple postage stamp overprint: postage stamp overprint to be made up by plenty small elements which runs without interruption over all postage stamps and the margin of sheet

Positive postage stamp overprint: post-age stamp overprint with coloured design on colourless surface

Negative postage stamp overprint: postage stamp overprint with colourless design on coloured surface

Postage stamp overprint with frame: postage stamp overprint surrounded by an enclosing line as intended style

Postage stamp overprint without frame: postage stamp overprint not sur-rounded by an enclosing line as intended style

Postage stamp overprint colour: colour name a postage stamp overprint is made off (e.g. red, blue or green)

Visible postage stamp overprint: with the naked eye visible postage stamp overprint

Invisible postage stamp overprint: with the naked eye not visible postage stamp overprint (e. g. phosphorus overprint)

Type-set postage stamp overprint: postage stamp overprint put together with type material (e.g. letters and ornamental pieces)

Handstamp postage stamp overprint: postage stamp overprint which is made with a handstamp

Cork postage stamp overprint: postage stamp overprint which is made with a cork stamp

Typography postage stamp overprint: postage stamp overprint which is made with typography printing

Offset postage stamp overprint: postage stamp overprint which is made with offset printing

Postage stamp overprint at top: postage stamp with postage stamp over-print at top half as intended style

Postage stamp overprint at bottom: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint at bottom half as intended style

Postage stamp overprint at left: post-age stamp with postage stamp overprint at left half as intended style

Postage stamp overprint at right: postage stamp with postage stamp over-print at right half as intended style

Postage stamp overprint in the middle: postage stamp with centered postage stamp overprint as intended style

Whole surface postage stamp over-print: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint (nearly) over the whole surface as intended style

Horizontal postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with horizontal postage stamp overprint as intended style

Vertical postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with vertical postage stamp overprint as intended style

Horizontal and vertical postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with partly vertical or horizontal postage stamp overprint as intended style

Inverted postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with 180 degrees rotated horizontal postage stamp overprint as intended style

Diagonal postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with crosswise postage stamp overprint as intended style

Inverted diagonal postage stamp over-print: postage stamp with 180 degrees rotated crosswise postage stamp overprint as intended style

Single postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with once postage stamp overprint as intended style

Double postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with twice postage stamp overprint as intended style

Double horizontal and vertical postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with twice postage stamp overprint horizontal and vertical as intended style

Double postage stamp overprint one inverted: postage stamp with twice post-age stamp overprint one 180 degrees rotated as intended style

Double postage stamp overprint Both Inverted: postage stamp with twice post-age stamp overprint both 180 degrees rotated as intended style

Glossy postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with glossy postage stamp overprint which reflects light as intended style

Dull postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with dull postage stamp overprint which does not reflect light as intended style

Sooty postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with sooty postage stamp overprint which absorbs light as intended style

Monochrome postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint in one colour as intended style

Multicolour postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with postage stamp over-print in multiple colours as intended style

Monolingual postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint in one language as intended style

Multilingual postage stamp overprint: postage stamp with postage stamp overprint in multiple languages as intended style