This is a very blurry era in philately for many Latin American countries. A certain entity (can't remember the name) offered many countries a deal which was hard to refuse, in printing their postage stamps. After the stamp contracts were completed with a country, they would print vast quantities of the stamps from the original plates, to be sold to the stamp trade. These were usually printed on thicker paper and slightly different shades but otherwise were dead ringers. The imperfs were probably from the unofficial printings and if so would have little value. This is the reason why many people shied away from collecting many Latin American countries in the past. There are far more of the reprints existing than the originals which make these countries, around the turn of the century, very difficult to collect properly.

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