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- anotacion, Colombia registration inscription, 1865-70.
- architect, South Australia official overprint, 1868-74.
- Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia S.A. Avianca airlines, Colombia overprint, first used July 12, 1950.
- overprint on SCADTA airmail issues, indicating a consular overprint sold in Germany, 1920.
- "A" inscription, US nondenominated stamp, valued 15-cents, placed on sale May 22, 1978.
A and T, A&T;: Annam and Tonkin overprint, French Protectorate in Indo-China; Jan. 21, 1888-1892: stamps of French Colonies surcharged A & T, see: Annam and Tonkin.
Abu Dhabi: stamps overprinted United Arab Emirates, 1972.
A Certa: (Sp.) Ancachs, 1884 Peru manuscript overprint, provisional issue; term is former canceling device used for another purpose.
Achin: Sumatra local overprint, Japanese occupation, 1942-45.
Aeores: (Fr.) Azores overprint and inscription on stamps of Portugal.
Actes de Naissance: (Fr.) birth certificates; French Colony revenue inscription.
Adélie (Coast) Land: "Terre Adélie-Dumont Durville 1840" overprint on stamp of Malagasy Republic.
Adigey: bogus Russian local overprint, 1993.
Admiralty Official: Admiralty Dept., Great Britain 1903 overprint for official use.
A. D. P. O.: (Fr.) "Administration Dette Publique Ottomane," inscription; Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt, 1917, French military occupation, revenue stamps.
A. D. P. O./Z. O.: (Fr.) Zone Ouest (Western Zone for Lebanon), inscription; see: A.D.P.O.
Adygeia: bogus Russian Federation Republic; local overprint and stamps.
A. E.: (Fr.) "affairs étrangcres" foreign affairs, French Colony Revenue inscription. 1912-1944: Italian issues overprinted "Egeo," "Isole Italiane Dell'Egeo" from various islands: Calchi, Calino, Caso, Coo, Fero, Nisiro, Patmo, Piscopi, Rhodes (Rodi), Scarpanto, Simi, and Stampalia, 1945-47: British Middle East Forces occupation overprint MEF (Middle East Forces), 1947: stamps of Greece overprinted SDD (Dodecanese Military Occupation).
Aerea: (It.) airmail overprint.
Aereo: (Sp.) airmail overprint or inscription.
Aero correo: (Sp.) Honduras airmail overprint.
Aereo exterior: (Sp.) Guatemala overprint for airmail.
Aereo interior: (Sp.) Honduras overprint for official interior airmail.
Aereo Sedta: (Sp.) "Sociedad Ecuatoriano de Transportes Aereos" Ecuador airmail overprint, 1938-40.
Aero oy: Finland inscription for 20th anniversary of Finnair, 1944.
Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia: (Sp.) airline in Colombia; 1950-51: airmail stamps overprinted "A" for mail carried by AVIANCA.
Affiches: (Fr.) public signs and posters; French Colony revenue inscription.
Aff O: (Fr.) with Foreign Legion cross, overprint for Tunisia, may be private issue.
Affranch: official mail overprint used as precancellation in Andorra, France, Monaco, and Morocco; also overprint on some French stamps issued to officials for government mail.
Affranchi ainsi faute figurine: handstamp overprint on Madagascar and Diego Suarez during shortage of low values, may be private issue.
Afgooye: inscription showing location of area depicted on 1980 stamp of Somalia.
Africa correios: Portuguese territories overprint on the 1898 issue.
Africa Occidental Espanola: (Sp.) Spanish West Africa inscription.
Africa Orientale Italiana: (It.) Italian East Africa inscription.
Afrique Equatoriale Franeaise: (Fr.) inscription on French Equatorial Africa.
Afrique Equatoriale Franeaise: (Fr.) French Equatorial Africa overprint on stamps of Gabon, Middle Congo.
Afrique Franeais Libre: (Fr.) Free French Equatorial Africa overprint and inscription.
Afrique Occidental Franeaise: (Fr.) French West Africa; overprint: see:A.O.F.
Afrique Orientale: (Fr.) German East Africa overprint; 1918: Belgian Congo Charity issue stamps.
A. G.: Attorney General, South Australia official overprint, 1868-74.
Agencies consulaires: (Fr.) consular agencies; French Colony revenue inscription.
Agriculture, Dept. of: US inscription, official use.
Agüera, La: part of Spanish Sahara, Africa; 1920-1923: used Spanish Rio de Oro stamps overprinted "La Agüera"
A. H. PD: Angra, Horta, Ponta Delgado overprint on stamps of Azores, 1906.
Aidez les Tuberculeux: (Fr.) Tunisia surtax overprint semi-postal for tuberculosis.
A. I. F.: Australian Imperial Forces overprint.
Air: Canada, inscription for airmail.
Airpost: Newfoundland inscription for airmail.
Air Post: in Russian, used as an overprint for Imperial Russian consular tax stamps in 1922 applied to mail sentfrom Russia to Germany; see: Deruluft.
Aitutaki: overprint on stamps of New Zealand, 1903-32.
Ajanlos, Ajl.1, Ajl.2, Alahlas: Hungary inscription for registered letters, 1946.
Alaouites, Alaquites,: 1925, Mar. 1: stamps of Syria overprinted Alaquites, 1931, July: first stamps as Latakia with "Lattaquie" overprint on stamps of Syria
Albania: 1902-16: Italian stamps, Offices in Turkey, overprinted Albania with Turkish currency, 1909: each town, Durazzo, Scutari and Valona, received its own overprint, 1913: overprints on Turkey issues, 1939-43: Italian occupation with stamps overprinted; "Constituent Assembly 12 IV 1939 XVII" for Albanian crown being offered to Italy, XVII is the 17th year of Fascist rule in Italy, 1940-42: Greece overprint for southern Albania, 1943-44: Italian occupation stamps overprinted for German occupation, with some cities issuing their own stamps, 1945: Italian occupation stamps overprinted for new republic: see: Qeverija Demokrat (ike) E Shqiperise 22-X-1944.
Alcance Y. U. H.: Uruguay inscription for late fee, 1936.
Alcoholes: (Sp.) liquors; Spanish Morocco revenue inscription.
Alcools: (Fr.) alcohol, liquors; French Colony revenue inscription.
Aledschen, Alsedziai: Lithuanian city; 1941: German military overprint on Russian stamps "Laisa/Alsedziai/24-VI-41."
Alexanderstadt: Ukranian city; 1941-42: Russian stamps overprinted/surcharged by the Germans "16.8.41/B.ALEX."
Alexandrie: (Fr.) 1899-1900 overprint used in French Offices in Egypt; see: Alexandria.
Algérie: (Fr.) overprint and inscription on stamps of France for Algeria.
Allemagne Duitschland: (Dut.) Germany occupation overprint on stamps of Belgium, 1919-21.
Allenstein: 1920: Germany district used stamps of Germany overprinted "Plebiscite Olsztyn/Allenstein"
Allied Military Postage: inscription for Allied Military Government, 1945-46.
Allumettes: (Fr.) matches; French Colony revenue inscription.
Alphabetizacion/Alphabetisation: (Sp., Fr.) Mexico and Haiti inscription to raise funds for the campaign against illiteracy.
Alto commissariato: (It.) top, head commission; 1940: Italian overprint on stamps of Yugoslavia for Lubiana.
Ambon: local overprint, Japan Naval Control, 1942-45.
Ambulante: (Fr., Bel.) poste ambulante overprint on stamps of Belgium and France used for a mobile post office.
Ambulance laquintinie: surtax overprint for Free French Army ambulances; 1941: with value in francs, for Cameroun.
American Express Co., Louisville, Ky: carried mail “across the lines” during the American Civil War.
American Zone: British, Russian and American occupying powers; 1946-48: one issue, overprinted with pattern of posthorns, for occupation of Germany, 1948-49: "Deutsche Post" inscription used.
A. M. G. F.T.T.: Allied Military Government Free Territory of Trieste; 1947-54:Zone A, Italy, Trieste overprint on stamps of Italy.
A. M. G. V.G.: Allied Military Government Venezia Guilia, Trieste; 1945-47: Italy overprint, Allied Occupation, replaced by A.M.G. F.T.T.
AM POST, M in oval: Allied Military Post inscription; 1945-46: first issue of stamps after World War II in Germany.
Am. (American) Rapid Tel. Co.: U.S. telegraph stamps issued for use on own firm’s telegrams,1881.
Amsterdao: (Port.) Portugal overprint to raise funds for Olympic team to go to Amsterdam.
Amtlicher verkehr: (Ger.) inscription of the official (dienst) stamps; 1881-1919: Württemberg.
Amure: Russian inscription; 1929, Feb.: for autonomous administration at Blagovestchansk, Amur province
AN: Turkey overprint; Annas, currency unit.
Anatolia: Turkey in Asia; 1920: Turkish revenue stamps overprinted by Nationalist Government revolutionaries,
Ancachs: Hairez, Peru postal district; overprint "Franca" used in 1884; see: A Certo.
Anciens Combattants: War Veterans, Tunisia overprint.
Andaman & Nicobar Islands: part of India, twin island groups; when occupied by Japan in World War II, 1942-45, Indian stamps were overprinted by occupiers.
Andorre: (Fr.) 1931 overprint on postage due stamps of France for Andorra.
Anglo American Drug Co.: U.S. private die medicine proprietary stamp.
Angora, Ankhara, Ankara: 1921: Turkey overprint for city in 1921
Anjouan: 1892-1914: French colonial stamps inscribed Sultanat d'Anjouan
Année Mondiale du Réfugié: (Fr.) Year of the Refugee, overprint on stamps of Switzerland for United Nations.
"40th Anniversary of the Royal Wedding 1947-1987": 1987 Aitutaki overprint.
Anotado: overprint on Mexico 1868 issue, applied in 1872, some claim to make the stamp valid for temporary use such a reuse of an obsolete issue, others claim they were for registered letters.
Antananarivo: British Madagascar hand stamp for mail inscribed "British Consular Mail Anatananarivo" now known as Tananarive, Madagascar.
Anzac commemoration: overprint for Australian-New Zealand Army Corps.
AO: 1918:overprint on stamps of Belgian Congo charity issue semi-postal.
AO: Audit Office, South Australia official overprint, 1868-74.
A. O. F.: "Afrique Occidentale Franeaise" French West Africa overprint, 1945: on stamps of semi-postal issue of France.
A. O. I.: Italian East Africa Postage Due overprint, 1941: on stamps of Italy.
A percevoir: (Fr.) "to collect" inscription/overprint on postage dues of Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Haiti and Monaco.
Apurimac: Arequipa, Peru provisional overprint, 1885; Chilean occupation of Peru.
Arad: 1919: stamps of Hungary overprinted "Occupation Franeaise" now part of Romania.
Arbe: 1920, Nov.- Dec. 1920: Fiume overprint.
A. R. Colón Colombia: Panama overprint on stamps of Colombia indicating acknowledgment of receipt.
A Receber: Postage Due, Portugal, Portuguese Colonies inscription.
Arequipa: 1881: overprint on stamps of Peru for Chilean occupation,
Armenwet: overprint of stamps of The Netherlands; 1913: for official use for Poor Law Administration.
Armja Polska we Wloszech: (Pol.) Polish Army in Italy handstamp, 1918.
Army official:
- Sudan overprint, officials, 1905.
- Great Britain Foreign Offices overprint; 1896-1904: Paymasters and War Office.
Army post: British forces overprint used in Egypt in 1936.
Army service: Sudan overprint.
Arriba Espana: "Spain Above All" overprint in Guipuzcoa Province.
Artigas: Uruguay overprint honoring Gen. Artigas.
Arts Festival of St. Kitts: St. Kitts-Nevis overprint, 1964.
Arviskarosultaknak Kulon: Hungary semi-postal inscription, food sufferers, 1913.
Ascension: overprint on stamps St. Helena, starting in 1922.
Asch: local, Sudeten district in Czechoslovakia, had overprinted issues in 1938.
Asegurada: (Sp.) inscription on insured mail labels used in Spanish speaking nations.
Asistenta sociala: (Rom.) Romania charity stamp inscription.
Assab: bogus overprint on Italian stamps 1880, possible Ethiopian city on the Red Sea.
Assicurato: (It.) Italian inscription on insured mail labels.
Assistencia: (Sp.) charity or assistance inscription for colonial stamps for funds to fight tuberculosis; Azores, Macao, Portugal.
Assistencia Nacional aos Tuberculoses-Porte Franco: (Port.) Portugal National Aid Society for Consumptives, inscription.
Assistencia-D.L. no. 72: (Sp.) Timor overprint for social welfare.
Assistencia Publica: Portuguese India and Mozambique inscription on postal tax stamps.
Assobla: (Sp.) Spanish Guinea overprint for Elobey, Annabon and Corisco.
Assurances sociales: (Fr.) social security; French Colony revenue inscription.
Asuncion: Paraguay 1886 official overprint for founding of city, Aug. 15, 1536.
A. T: Army Telegraph; Orange Free State overprint.
AT, A&T;: French Colonies, Annam and Tonkin overprint.
A T Co. (Atlantic Telegraph Company): U.S. telegraph stamps issued for use on own firm’s telegrams, 1888.
Atlantis y Lemuria: bogus, overprints on Atlantis stamps.
A-U: Colombia, Argentina, and Uruguay SCADTA consular overprint.
Aunus: Russia overprint on stamps of Finland; 1919: Finnish occupation; Russian town of Olonetz.
Au profit de la croix rouge: Belgian East Africa Red Cross overprint for Ruanda Urundi.
Austria: 1918, Austrian Republic overprint "German Austria."
Austrian military post: Bosnia stamps with "K.U.K. Feldpost"; 1912-14: stamps inscribed or overprinted used by Austrian forces in occupation of parts of Italy, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, 1912-18: issues for Bosnia and Herzegovina had inscription "K.U.K. Militarpost," see: K.U.K. Feldpost, K.U.K. Militarpost.
Autopaketti: Finland parcel post inscription.
Avion: (Fr., Sp.) inscription for airmail, airplane, aviation, Alaouites, vertical overprint.
Avion Messre Tafari: "Royal Airmail" overprint on Ethiopia air stamps.
Avionska Posta: Jugoslavia airmail overprint.
Ayachucho: overprint on stamps of Peru, 1881, for one of the Arequipa issues.
Ayer, J.C. & Co.: U.S. private die medicine proprietary stamp.
A. Z.: Albania 1927 overprint for President Ahmed Zogu.
Azad hind: bogus, "Free India" inscription printed in Germany in 1942.
Azerbaijan: 1945-46: Persian stamps overprinted "Occupation Azirbaydejan" during Russian occupation; found to be bogus, 1945, May-Mar. 1946: occupied by Russia, set of 15 Iranian stamps overprinted "National Government of Azerbaijan, 11th May 1945."
Azores, forged issue: 1912-31 overprint Ceres, Sc. 155-237.