Collecting By Engraver

Florian. That is done if there wrong let me know
I'm putting the link under each stamp of the page its up on
I thank that should do the job rather than taking away any thing from the topic
Most of Iceland is done Have a look see what you think.
Biglff

biglff - John, thank you very much for introducing sub-albums into your Germany album. However, some mistakes have crept in as there were too many shifts from the main album to several sub-albums. So let's do it in steps. Please open your e-mail box and follow my advice. Thank you for everything you have done for our mutual benefit so far.

In 1913 Chile decided to take over printing their stamps and banknotes directly in the country.
Until then American Bank Note Co. did such work in U.S.
But the terms of the contract with ABNCo prevented delivery of the dies and plates for printing in Chile.

Chile decided to contact the firm Thomas MacDonald of London to produce new dies and plates replicating the ABNCo designs.

Thomas MacDonald contracted with John A.C.Harrison to produce (engraved) new dies, based on the ABNCo. designs.

Well...

1911- Domingo Sta.Maria
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by Robert Savage (1868-1943)
Frame and lettering engraved by William H. Maple



1918 -Domingo Sta.Maria
Printed in Chile by TEV (Talleres de Especies Valoradas of Chilean Mint)
Vignette engraved by John A.C. Harrison (1872-1954)
In the Chilean printing frame was printed in offset-litho.



Side by side...
Left : by Robert Savage
Right : by John A.C. Harrison

Wow, that orange/black is striking!

jorgesurcl - Thank you very much. Most appreciated. Special thanks for the side-by-side images.

florian - Glad you like it this information

In the previous post I commented about the participation of John A.C. Harrison in Chilean stamps.
The next one with Admiral Thomas Cochrane was never printed by American Bank Note Co.
The design is new and was entirely engraved (vignette and frame) by John A.C. Harrison.

1916 - Admiral Thomas Cochrane
Printed in Chile by Talleres de Especies Valoradas (Bureau of Printing of Chilean Mint)

CANAL ZONE

Printed by Bureau of Engraving & Printing

Scott C15 - 1939
Vignette engraved by Carl Theodore Arlt (1883-1956)
Frame & lettering engraved by William B. Wells



Scott C16 - 1939
Vignette engraved by Harry R. Rollins
Frame & lettering engraved by William B. Wells

Jorge, you must be getting lonely since you're the only one posting
anything new.

I would like to post something new also to keep you company
but I don't know anymore what has already been shown here.


I really like those early Chile ones.

On the 2 Pesos stamps even though the re-engraving is not
bad it is definitely inferior to the original.

Was it the fault of the engraver or the printer?

Lithograving - I think it's the fault of the printers.
In those years they were just beginning to gain experience with engraved plates. In fact it was decided to print the frames in offset system because it was more easy.
All supplies come from England which in those years (1914-1918) was at war.

Another stamp with central vignette engraved by John A.C. Harrison :

Manuel Rengifo - Issued in 1921
Center : Engraved
Border : Offset/Litho
Printed in Chile by TEV (Talleres de Especies Valoradas)

CANAL ZONE
Printed by Bureau of Engraving & Printing

Scott C17 - 1939
Vignette engraved by Matthew D. Fenton
Lettering and Numeral engraved by William B. Wells and James T. Vail



Scott C18 - 1939
Vignette engraved by Leo C. Kauffmann
Lettering and Numeral engraved by William B. Wells and James T. Vail

CANAL ZONE
Printed by Bureau of Engraving & Printing

Scott C19 - 1939
Vignette engraved by James R. Lowe
Lettering & Numeral engraved by William B. Wells and James T. Vail



Scott C20 - 1939
Vignette engraved by Charles A. Brooks (1905-1993)
Lettering & Numeral engraved by James T. Vail

Here is Czeslan Slania 1000th engrave stamp -I understand it is also the largest stamp in the world

Alfred J. Downey (1883-1945) was a British engraver who was originally trained as a bookplate engraver. With the decline in demand for bookplates after World War I, Downey joined Perkins, Bacon & Co., Ltd., and afterwards also worked at Thomas De La Rue & Co., Ltd. Here is an example of Downey's engraving skill:

Happy Birthday to Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (1776-1831), a Greek politician and diplomat who served as the first head of state of independent Greece (1827-33), and who is considered the founder of the modern independent Greek State. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Ioannis Kapodistrias, engraved by Alfred J. Downey, printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co., Ltd., and issued by Greece on April 1, 1930 as one of a set of 18 stamps commemorating the centenary of Greek independence, Scott No. 349, plus an image of a painted portrait of Kapodistrias which was surely the model for this stamp's design.

- nethryk

Great images, nethryk! Great stamp.

Kirk

KirkS - Thanks! Glad you liked 'em.

Karin Lieven (1899-1978) was an artist, a book illustrator and an engraver of Russian origin who lived and worked in Geneva, Switzerland. Here are images of three examples of Lieven's design and engraving skills on postage stamps issued by Switzerland.

- nethryk

Postman, a semi-postal (charity) stamp designed by W. Koch, (shield in carmine, photogravure), and issued on June 15, 1949, Scott No. B183.


Opening bars to the Swiss Psalm, the current Swiss national anthem, composed in 1841 by Cistercian monk Father Alberich Zwyssig (1808-1854), a semi-postal (charity) stamp designed by Karin Lieven, and issued on June 1, 1954, Scott No. B232.


Globe and books, an official stamp designed by Swiss artist Donald Brun (1909-1999), and issued for use by the UNESCO International Bureau of Education in Geneva on September 22, 1958, Scott No. 4O40.