Editing Overprint (section)

== Provisional overprints ==
[[Provisional stamp]]s are postage issue made for temporary ''ad hoc'' usage to meet demands until regular issues are reintroduced.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.linns.com/howto/refresher/classifications_20030414/refreshercourse.asp |title=Lines of stamp classifications have blurred |author=Miller, Rick |year=2011 |publisher=Linn's World Stamp Almanac |access-date=3 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625213202/http://www.linns.com/howto/refresher/classifications_20030414/refreshercourse.asp |archive-date=25 June 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Transitional government overprints ===
New states or states in transition have sometimes found it necessary to recirculate stocks of stamps printed by a previous government. Some historical perspective may be gleaned from the study of such stamps: some transitional government overprints blend neatly with their predecessors' designs, while others attempt to totally obscure or even deface the older markings. In several European nations in 1944–45, Nazi occupational stamps were overprinted for the provisional governments, and those which depicted Adolf Hitler were most heavily overprinted, obliterating his face.
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File:Danzig75pf1920.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of Danzig|Danzig]], 1920: [[Postage stamps and postal history of Germany#Imperial Germany, 1871-1918|German Empire]] stamp overprinted for [[Free City of Danzig]]
File:KievIIee7rub.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of Ukraine|Ukraine]], 1918–1923: Kyiv<ref>{{cite book |first=Dr. R.J. |last=Ceresa |author-link=w:Ray J. Ceresa |date=May 1986 |title=The Postage Stamps of Russia, 1917-23|volume=2. Ukraine. Part 9/13. The Trident Issues of Kyiv Types I, II and II|page=170|publisher=Russian Philatelic Desk Top Publications, Felpham, Great Britain|asin= B0007BFS90}}</ref> [[Coat of arms of Ukraine|trident]] overprint on 7 rouble [[Russian Empire|Russian Imperial]] stamp for the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]]
File:Armenia 1920 149TE5.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of Armenia|Armenia]] 1920: Framed HP monogram on 10 rouble [[Russian Empire|Russian Imperial]] stamp. This overprint type was introduced at Erivan (now [[Yerevan]]).<ref>{{cite book |first=Dr. R.J. |last=Ceresa |author-link=w:Ray J. Ceresa |date=August 1978 |title=The Postage Stamps of Russia, 1917-23|volume=1. Armenia. Part 3. The Large sized Framed HP Monogram Overprints|pages=62–63|publisher=Russian Philatelic Desk Top Publications, Felpham, Great Britain|asin= B0007BFS90}}</ref>
File:Lithuanian postage stamps with overprints of Central Lithuania (Litwa Srodkowa), 1920.jpg|[[Lithuania]]n postage stamps with overprints of [[Republic of Central Lithuania|Central Lithuania]] (''Środkowa Litwa''), 1920
File:Irish Stamp 2 Two Pence Overprint.jpg|[[Postage stamps of Ireland|Ireland]], 1922: British stamp overprinted for [[Provisional Government of the Irish Free State]]
File:19930226 100rub Latvia Postage Stamp.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of Latvia|Latvia]], 1993: Soviet stamp overprinted for independent Latvia
File:Sharjah1963-65nosheikh.jpg|The first definitive issue of postage stamps of [[Sharjah]] (UAE), 1 riyal, 1963 and 1965, with [[Saqr bin Sultan Al Qasimi]] obscured following the coup
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=== Wartime overprints ===
During times of war, many nations have issued [[war tax stamp]]s. Before new stamps could be printed, older stamps were frequently overprinted with surcharges or a simple inscription such as "War Tax".

In actual combat zones, the replenishment of stamp stocks is generally low on a military's list of priorities. In contested or occupied areas, captured local stamps are often expediently overprinted by the occupying forces.
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File:Deutsches Reich - Belgien.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of Belgium|Belgium]], World War I: German postage stamp overprinted with "Belgium" for use during the German occupation
File:Stamp Malta 1918 3p war tax.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of Malta|Malta]], 1918: Postage stamp with wartime taxation applied
File:Russia Wrangel 1921 Sc338A.jpg|[[Russian Civil War]], [[Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel|Wrangel]] 1921: Russian Imperial stamp of 1908–1918 overprinted for the posts of Wrangel's [[Armed Forces of South Russia|army]] and civilian refugees
File:StampFiume-Kupa1941Michel2.jpg|City of [[Fiume]] and environs (Fiume-Kupa), 1941: [[Postage stamps and postal history of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavian stamp]] overprinted for the [[Postage stamps and postal history of Italy|Italian]] occupation
File:Japanese Overprint of US Phillipine Islands Stamp 1942.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of the Philippines|Philippines]] 1942: Japan occupation overprint of US PI stamp for the "First Anniversary of the Great East Asia War", December 8, 1942 (FD/CDS)
File:Australia-Stamp-1946 BCOF Wartime Overprint.jpg|[[Postage stamps and postal history of Australia|Australia]], 1946: Surplus [[kookaburra]] stamp from 1937 overprinted for use by the [[British Commonwealth Occupation Force]] in [[Postage stamps and postal history of Japan|Japan]]
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