Collecting By Engraver

ARGENTINA - Printed by South American Banknote Co.
Engraved by Ferdinand Schirnböck (1859-1930)

Schirnböck was born in Austria. Between 1887 and 1892 he was in Argentina and worked at the Compañía Sudamericana de Billetes de Banco (South American Banknote Co.) as designer and engraver of stamps and banknotes.
He returned to Austria and engraved several stamps for Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the first decades of the 20th century.

Scott 73 - 76 - 80 :

Jorge, thanks for the info regarding Ferdinand Schirnböck,
I didn't know that he also worked in Argentina.
BTW his birth date was 1859.

Florian,you were absolutely right on, it sure looks like a G




Edited to replace missing Photobucket images.

Lithograving, thank you for the info.
I corrected the post

Lithograving - I did enjoy reading your fitting comments.

I've only just seen "Apocalypse – Hitler", a 2011 documentary in two parts on TV and remembered the events again, Hitler's convulsive gestures and maniacal facial expressions, his hard stare: a cobra fixing a rabbit, his hair caught with the camera during the menacing histrionic acts as he was addressing his fanaticized audiences. Jaroslav Goldschmied's was a convincing stamp engraving of the demagogic type indeed.

In fact, the portrait is a detail of Hitler the Enraged on the rostrum, am Rednerpult, perhaps declaring war on Poland, shown on the 1942 Böhmen und Mähren semi-postals.

The sad end of it all … And the after-effects: the iron curtain dropped over part of Europe for over 40 years …

Not for nothing was this detail of the Hitler profile in Jaroslav Goldschmied's engraving, not that of Prof. Ferdinand Lorber's or Jan Piwczyk's, featured on a hypothetical US dollar bill had the country been invaded by Germany during WWII as its image once appeared on my monitor.

Thank you for your comments and the detail of the "G" on the 1944 St. Vitus stamp in particular.

Jorge, I've added your additional info about Ferdinand Schirnböck
on page 14 of this thread.

It is well worth returning to any of these impressive 106 pages of this fantastic thread filled with revealing images posted not only by the greats such as nethryk, lithograving, AnthonyUK etc. but also with posts by such well-informed members as jorgesurcl, who, to our surprise, keeps filling in the blanks in what has so far seemed poorly documented history of South American engraved stamps. Thank you everyone.

Thanks florian, I'm glad that the information is of yours interest.

BOLIVIA - 1878 - Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Scott 20 to 23
Coat of Arms and book (la ley = the law)
Vignette and frame engraved by Alfred Jones (1819-1900).
Lettering & numerals :?

COSTA RICA - Printed in Chile by Talleres de Especies Valoradas (Printing Dept. of Chilean Mint)
Engraver : José Moreno Benavente (1905-1981)

Scott 246 : Mauro Fernández



Scott 249 - 250 : Miguel de Cervantes

PERU - French Exposition in Lima - 1957
Printed in France

Engraver: Albert Decaris (1901-1988)
Scott C127 - Arms of Lima and Bordeaux



Engraver: Jean Pheulpin (1907-1991)
Scott C128 - Eiffel Tower and Cathedral of Lima
Scott C129 - Admiral Dupetit-Thouars and frigate La Victorieuse
Scott C130 - Presidents Coty and Prado and esposition hall

Jorge,

Printed in France nmeans the Post Office Printing Works in Boulevard Brune, Paris [now Perigueux] or the Institute de Gravure in Paris?

Judging from the use of the Giori-Lambert process [ONE plate with up to 3 colours] it is probably B.B.!

saludos, Rein

Rein,


You are right!. Those 4 stamps were printed by Post Office Printing Works in Boulevard Brune, Paris (Atelier des Timbres-poste).

But Peru also has some stamps printed by Institute de Gravure-Paris in 1951 :

Scott 438/441, C103, C108, Definitives stamps
Scott 447/455 - 5th Pan-American Congress of Highways
Scott C94/C102, UPU 75th anniv.

Welcome Rein

It's great to have someone on SCF with your vast knowledge
of print techniques, watermarks, papers etc etc.

Looking forward to some fine discussions.

Pierre Bequet, the French stamp designer and engraver has recently died, aged 80.

According to Stamp Magazine [GB] he engraved more than 700 stamps for 36 countries from 1961, including the Marianne 1971-78 definitives

GLENN MORGAN

65170 - Thank you for sharing the sad news about Pierre Béquet's death. In my opinion, he was one of France's finest stamp designer/engravers. On page 42 of this thread I posted images of several examples of Béquet's work. I have posted many more on various other SCF threads. Here are images of five more from my collection which I would like to offer in tribute to this late great master of the burin, all stamps designed and engraved by Pierre Béquet.

- nethryk

Four ancient athletes, airmail stamp issued by Gabon on September 30, 1964 to publicize the Tokyo Olympic Games, Scott No. C25.


Forest along the Senegal River, issued by Senegal on February 27, 1965, Scott No. 244.


African women's hair style, designed after "Bonnet," and issued by Central African Republic on November 7, 1967, Scott No. 87.


Monument to Polish Veterans of World War II, created by French sculptor André Greck (1912-1993), issued by France on November 11, 1978, Scott No. 1620, Y&T No. 2021.


View of Montbéliard, Doubs, issued by France on September 11, 1993, Scott No. 2358, Y&T No. 2826.