Monday, October 10, 2011

Irish Free State-2 Varieties of Provisional Government Overprint on George the 5th Postage Stamps

Illustrated below are two of the varieties of overprint of the Irish Provisional Government of 1922. There were 5 varieties of overprint used with changes in wording and style of numbering. The examples shown are type 4 (the 2 penny) and type 5 (the Halfpenny) with a wide spacing between the numbers in 1922 and without serifs.





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