They also are listed by Gibbons under Italian Socialist Republic (ISR) SG#1-40. (There could be more than the 40. My SG catalog skips numbers.)
It is the Republican National Guard issue under the Mussolini regime in north Italy in late 1943-1944 after he was rescued from prison. The area he proclaimed as the ISR was north of the Gustav Line and under German occupation.
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re: G.N.R. overprints on Italian stamps?
Guardia Nazionale Republicana Propaganda Stamps according to Sassone.
It looks like there are three types of overprint, issued in 1943-1944 with a total of 36 issues. There is not much info as to how to differentiate them. The Green may be overprinted in Red, while the Brown and Violet in Black. If I understand the listing there are four minor variations of each color/value and three "printings" of the twelve stamps, one Verona, one Brescia and one a general issue, with no indication of how to figure which is which. The actual information is quite sparse.
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