Private overprints have been used for a number of reasons.

District overprints continued through 1883 after which they were no longer required.

The color of the district name was almost always black, but red, blue, and violet overprints are known.

The following year the 2nd assembly added a "1922" to the overprints.

These overprints are usually made as control marks or accounting information.

On 23 March, 1923 a new issue put an end to the flurry of overprints.

Some of the issues in 1993 were overprints on 1992 banknotes.

Later between 1925 and 1930, similar overprints were used on stamps of Syria.

Red and black were the most common colours for overprints, but blue was also used.

Similar sets of overprints appeared periodically from 1911 to 1920.

Finally, there were overprints for services to other islands.

The last of these overprints were issued in 1939.

A 30 sen and 7.50 yen value were printed, but only used for overprints.

In 1915, the British authorities used the yacht stamps with overprints.

Meanwhile, many revenue issues exist with provincial or state overprints.

Two distinct overprints were made, before and after the formal independence of the state on December 6, 1922.

Such overprints almost always invalidate a stamp for postal use.

In the next step regular stamps were used with overprints indicating the name of the territory.

After the war, the stamps were also initially used with overprints in Danzig.

Overprints have been used as security measures to deter misuse and theft.

The overprints are just as for the Spanish currency, but fewer types were produced.

As in the first issue they were issued both with and without district overprints, but in lower numbers.

Similar overprints were made for special delivery and postage due stamps.

The overprints were applied vertically in black or red, reading either up or down.

The 1900 overprints remained in use until 1901.

The old series of 1926 was also overprinted with the new name, in 1933.

All these issues have been overprinted in many cases up to 1920:

Both countries overprinted their own stamps with the word "Palestine".

Stamps of Austria were overprinted for use in the region.

Publishers overprinted several of their big books in 1989, which cost them dearly.

The same day, the airmail overprinted series was put on sale.

Symbols are specified so that a course can be overprinted on the map.

In addition some of the regular postal issues above were overprinted for fiscal or tax use.

In 1964, some embossed revenues from the 1935 issue were overprinted with new values.

This resulted in a large number of stamps overprinted with the new currency.

Stamp Duty revenues were sometimes overprinted for other taxes as well.

These banknotes were overprinted with the new name of the currency in 1990.

Overprinted with a green, red/reddish brown and black leaf shapes.

Only the denominations of 1-cent to 10-cents were overprinted.

They were also overprinted for use as revenue stamps.

These notes were overprinted with denominations of five, 10, 50 and 100 new francs in 1960.

Starting in 1922, the Italians overprinted their own stamps with horizontally.

The screen flashed 141.2, then overprinted a spray of lines with a common focal point.

Between and 1896 and 1898 some of these were overprinted for use in the Seychelles.

In these cases, existing issues are often used, overprinted with text indicating the reason for the surcharge.

Black and very dark colors may be overprinted over lighter colors.

Łęczyca - 14 different stamps and two postcards were overprinted.

Ozorków - 10 different stamps and one postcard were overprinted.

Outstanding stocks of charity tax stamps were overprinted for fiscal use, but not used.

Also in 1962, two stamps were overprinted to mark the talks that led to the Nassau agreement.