Editing Overprint (section)

=== 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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