Some Brazil 1899 100 Reiss were printed with worn-out plates. I show here several plate varieties. Below is a detail from a clean plate printing. There is a gap in the lower inner blue design for the specimen shown below, under the neck of the figure, and a bend in the upper blue inner design. Here are the quick links for the article, for some of the color varieties, some of the plate varieties as well as examples of under-inking and smudging.

For the specimen illustrated below, the red lines are broken below the E and to the left of the bottom right corner.