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One Centavo Mail
The one centavo stamp is on rarely found used singly to prepay local drop letters. Its main application was in the
uprating of postcards and as a make up value for 5 centavos and ten centavos letters, often in conjunction with the
preceding and subsequent American Bank Note definitive stamps. The design was also transposed onto the new
one centavo printed postcards (see postal stationery section):

One Centavo Local Drop Letter Rate

May 26th 1900 one centavo drop letter mailed in Santiago

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Two Centavos UPU Printed Matter Rate

The UPU postcard rate was 3 centavos until 1907 but the UPU printed matter rate was 2 centavos only until
1907. Thus by marking a card "IMPRESO"(i.e. printed matter) a card could be sent for 2 centavos not 3 centavos:

Scarce usage of pair of one centavo adhesives to prepay 2 centavo printed matter card

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