Provisional issue

A provisional issue is one that has been improvised until new stamps can be printed. This is often done by overprinting stamps of the previous regime. Sometimes, hastily designed crude printings are used instead.

 File:Burundi A.jpg|Burundi provisional overprint on an obsolete Ruanda-Urundi stamp. File:Ryukyus miyako.jpg|Ryuku Islands stamp, provisional overprint for the Miyako District on an older Japanese stamp using the postmaster's personal seal (1946). 

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