State Overprints

In the late 1920s, several post offices were robbed. Stamps were taken and sold at a discount, assumedly to people at locations far from where they were stolen.

As a result and as a security measure, an idea was tried of overprinting stamps with the abbreviated name of the state from where they were to be sold and used. To start, they tried this in two states, overprinting eleven definitive stamps. All of the stamps on this page are overprinted either with Kans for Kansas, or Nebr for Nebraska. Since it wasn’t an effective deterence, it was discontinued after one year.

Note

Each time I’m in the U.S. – I go several times a year – I put together a few orders of stamps from dealers there. I buy them on-line and have them shipped to wherever I’m staying: either at a friend’s house in New York, or at my mother’s house in New Orleans. Each time I’ve bought one or two of the stamps on this page. It’s very satisfying to have completed this page after such a long time.

Contains 22 spots: own 22 – 22 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 4, 2024

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Kansas Overprint

1.1	✓	658	Benjamin Franklin	1c (jan 1929) definitive, green
1.2	✓	659	Warren Harding	1½c (jan 1929) definitive, brown
2.1	✓	660	George Washington	2c (jan 1929) definitive, carmine
2.2	✓	661	Abraham Lincoln	3c (jan 1929) definitive, violet
2.3	✓	662	Martha Washington	4c (jan 1929) definitive, yellow brown
2.4	✓	663	Theodore Roosevelt	5c (jan 1929) definitive, dark blue
2.5	✓	664	James Garfield	6c (jan 1929) definitive, red orange
3.1	✓	665	William McKinley	7c (jan 1929) definitive, black
3.2	✓	666	Ulysses Grant	8c (jan 1929) definitive, olive
3.3	✓	667	Thomas Jefferson	9c (jan 1929) definitive, bright pink
3.4	✓	668	James Monroe	10c (jan 1929) definitive, yellow orange

Nebraska Overprint

4.1	✓	669	Benjamin Franklin	1c (may 1929) definitive, green
4.2	✓	670	Warren Harding	1½c (may 1929) definitive, brown
4.3	✓	671	George Washington	2c (may 1929) definitive, carmine
4.4	✓	672	Abraham Lincoln	3c (may 1929) definitive, violet
5.1	✓	673	Martha Washington	4c (may 1929) definitive, yellow brown
5.2	✓	674	Theodore Roosevelt	5c (may 1929) definitive, dark blue
5.3	✓	675	James Garfield	6c (may 1929) definitive, red orange
5.4	✓	676	William McKinley	7c (may 1929) definitive, black
6.1	✓	677	Ulysses Grant	8c (may 1929) definitive, olive
6.2	✓	678	Thomas Jefferson	9c (may 1929) definitive, light pink
6.3	✓	679	James Monroe	10c (may 1929) definitive, yellow orange

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.