I'm not sure about this stamp Ned.Indie has a line though it but does not have Reopublik Indonesia on it ,can't find it in Scott's.It appears to have a cancel but has full gum
Brian
I agree that it looks like either a Japanese occupation or Repoeblik overprint, but I have not seen it in this variety before. I could check in the NvPH catalogue, but if memory serves me right, this type of stamps is woefully ignored there. Perhaps because it is a painful episode in Dutch history? Who knows.
In "Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of the Republic of Indonesia 17 August 1945 27 December 1949": page 53 under provisional issues of Java:
"Stamps of the Netherlands East Indies andthe Japanese occupation used on Java under Republican administration without any overprint or with only an ink or pencil line, a brush stroke or typewriter erasure through the former Country name.
Of course only stamps with a legible date in the cancellation belong to this category."
There are no illustrations given. This may just refer to a manual deletion (rather than an overprint). There was a similar category under Sumatra.
I didn't find anything else like your stamp, so I am not sure this helps.
Jan
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