Today (20.10.2019) is the 75th anniversary of the Senta local issue. On 18.10.1944 the Senta Liberation Committee decided that the Hungarian postage stamps should be overprinted with symbols of the new communist regime.
18.10.1944, Senta Liberation Committee document (from Senta city archive)
..."in the middle red star at it hammer and sickle in black and with inscription Senta, 8-X-1944”...
The following day, the president of the Local Liberation Committee, comrade Isa Nešić, issued an order to overprint stamps. Interestingly, the instructions about overprint content changed. Probably due to the technical difficulties were not being able to provide such details like the hammer and a sickle.
19.10.1944, Order with final instructions for the overprint.
..."on the upper part the inscription 8.X.1944 at the bottom edge the inscription Jugoslavia in black color and a five-pointed star in red in the middle"...
On 20.10.1944, 28 different stamps were overprinted.
1944 Senta local provisional issue, Mi. 1-10, I-XIV, P1, PI-III. Max 34 complets exist.
A pair of commemorative sheets with all 28 stamps. Only 16 issued.
