Buenos Aires Barquitos Reprints

 Many authorized and unauthorized reprints exist. They frequently show up in auctions often in blocks of multiples. This blog will cover the main ones.
The forgeries exist from all the main players, Torres, Oneglia, Spiro, Mercier, Schroeder, Sperati and many unknown forgers. Most have margins too large.

For a more complete listing see:

Barqitos of Buenos Aires by A. Gazzolo and a more modern one by Ken Pugh.

Reprints exist made in 1890 with the original plates, the so-called Arata reprints, made by Pedro N.Arata made from the original plates with the permission of the Director of Postal Services and Telegraphs. They were printed on very thick yellowish paper.

Some of the original printing plates were rendered unusable in 1893.

There also exist so-called Latour reprints, made with stolen printing plates around 1912. When Esteban Latour died in 1912, a considerable amount of reproductions of "barquitos" and "cabecitas" were sold. They even exist in bogus colors and in several types.

Lichtenstein made other reprints of the six values, plus the "To rs". They were done to illustrate a book by Mr. Peplow called "The Postage Stamps of Buenos Aires", printed in London in the year 1925.

Palley reprints

These reprints were produced later, 1988, and with the cliches already scored.

Printed on thick white paper.

Buehler reprints

Apparently a German man came into possession of seven of the (stolen) printing plates. It then ended up in the hands of Georg Bühler who printed them in

Sheets of 6x8 like the originals, but always based on the same cliche.

Distinctive nail holes.

The paper is hard, white opaque

Fournier reprints

 There is a distortion of the wavy outer frame line just above the 'S' of 'CORREOS' in all the Fournier reprints indicating only one cliche was used.