reprint

A reprint is a reprint of a stamp from original printing blocks and printing forms , which is no longer intended for sale at the post office counter or for postage purposes. A precise definition varies in practice depending on the collection area. In philately, the difference between reprint and reprint is that the reprint was not printed from original material. The reprint is always to be equated with a forgery. Reprints have also been arranged by the postal administrations themselves in order to document complete counter sheets or to make the reprints available to other postal administrations. Reprints can also be used correctly by post, reprints are always forgeries.

In a broader sense, a distinction is made between official and private reprints. According to today's terms, private reprints are to be equated with reprints . This is especially true for prints where not every part of the print material is original. These are, for example, re-engravings in the gravure process or the replacement of types that are no longer in the original in the relief process .

In the narrower and present-day sense, reprints are commissioned by state postal administrations and produced from original printing blocks or printing plates after the postage has expired. This definition can be found in the introduction of current Michel catalogs . In the Michel Germany catalog, the official reprints of the first Baden stamps from 1850, produced in 1866 and 1867, are referred to as reprints, although the original stamps were valid until December 31, 1871. Reprints of Thurn-und-Taxis stamps from 1909 are also known as reprints, even though the postal administration was not state-owned. Likewise, two values that were printed from new plates are listed as reprints.