Frankly, the engravers were not drunks, but in many cases they did the repairs with low-skilled printers to save time and/or money. The most exciting corrections of the Hungarian stamp issue of 1874 are the so-called “botch” corrections.
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1874 / 1881 Hungary: scratches and plate repairs are the most exciting features of this copperplate edition. These repairs exist in many variations, a very exciting area of collecting and very popular in Hungarian philately. These corrections may be professional as in the accompanying illustration, but I will soon present some that are very unprofessional…
