Overprint on the official stamps of the Machekha almshouse to reclassify them as regular postage stamps: "private" over the word "official", "0" over the "No." sign, and a new denomination of 1 kopeck. Print run: 1,500 copies.
The official stamps were intended for official correspondence sent via the zemstvo post. They were used in 1912–1914, issued free of charge but accounted for. Violet.
In the settlement of Machekhas, an almshouse of the Poltava Uyezd Zemstvo for 22 persons under care.