Following the steps of the Mexican Post Office other Latin-American countries came up with comparable printings! Uruguay since 1928: |
The Uruguay stamps are etched, not engraved! And they are not photogravure! But what would make them photogravure? The moment a flexible "plate" got wrapped around a cylinder or got mounted on a cylinder! The other aspect is the photomechanical reproduction - through a step-by-step reproduction machine! |
Another example is San Salvador 1954: |