Anti-bandit control

Anti-bandit controls (ABC) were overprints intended to prevent sale of stamps stolen in one locality from being sold in another.
 * The United States experimented with the Kansas-Nebraska overprints to this end beginning in 1929.
 * China handstamped town and city names as a control also, about the same time period. There are many different sizes, colors and styles.

 File:US 1c Kans.jpg|US stamp overprinted Kans. File:China ABC A.jpg|Chinese ABC overprint (Shi-???), the two characters near the bottom of the stamp. 

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