Collecting By Engraver

jjarmstrong47 , you can show them as much as you want.........

Yes, aren't they absolutely beautiful?! Looking at those I'm sorely tempted to limit my collection to ABNC issues only. Some stunning collection that could be!

As for the 1926 label: it was engraved by William Fraser Ford, except for the scrolls, which were by Carroll Stanley Mabie. Can't help you with the other ones, I'm afraid.

Despite my first paragraph, I've actually decided to focus on Wilhelm Gottfried Nüesch for a while. Here is his 1901 Official stamp for Argentina.



You can find various proofs of the values but I've also found this proof which has no value figures in the bottom corners and includes the word correspondençia instead of the value written out. No such stamp exists (as far as I know). Though this should really be in a separate post because Nüesch was a vignette/portrait engraver, so the frame would most likely have been done by someone else.



Apparently, Nüesch liked to hide his N somewhere in his engravings, but so far I haven't been able to find it in this engraving.

Can anyone explain to me how to use the search function on this site. Every time I want to try to find a post or item on this thread, all the search function will tell me is that is on this thread and with 195 pages, that is no help at all. There must be a way to find individual posts but I'm darned if I can work it out. Even if I know who posted and fill in that box, the answer is the same.

I decided to bite the bullet and go back through all the pages and of course, I got so sidetracked, I forgot what I was looking for in the first place.

What I did find was a lot of information that I didn't have in the database, particularly from jorgesurcl, so the exercise has been well worth a few hours spent.

I added this one of Jorgesurcl's stamp images to the database as I have been unable to find this stamp and I know there are a million forgeries.


Argentina 1892. Columbus' Discovery of America 4th Centenary SG 219 Scott 90

When I went looking for the Christian name of the designer, I found that this stamp has a quite amazing story.

This stamp was unusual in several ways. It was the first commemorative stamp produced in the Americas and therefore the first Columbian.

It was the first stamp to be released on a card with a special First Day cancellation.

It's conception was the first to be the product of a Citizens' Advisory Committee.

Finally, the 200,000 issued for each value became the first stamps to be for sale and valid for postage for just one day. No wonder it is hard to find.

The engraver, Nuesch was a Swiss born engraver who migrated to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century while the design was based on a drawing by Argentine artist, Eduardo de Martino.

South Africa Scott 596, SG521

Does anyone know anything about these 1982 South African Architecture stamps. Scott tells me they are engraved (about half of the set) but are they hand engraved?

To me, they look just a bit too precise, which if they are done by hand, it was by a good engraver but without much imagination.

They look similar to me to the Mexican ones that were screened and recess printed but never saw a burin. Also, I can't find any references to engravers working in South Africa.

here is a higher resolution scan. The lines don't break up as they would in a screened image and there is more irregularity than I would expect from a machine engraving.

Perhaps I'm being unfair, after all it looks good at normal size.

Happy 80th birthday to master engraver Miloš Ondráèek, whose latest stamp engravings include the following creations that have been issued by the Czech Post this year and shown on http://www.wnsstamps.post/en :


(for details of the stamp Google: Ceska posta Prague Castle Lucas Cranach)

and

(for details of the stamp Google: Ceska posta past issues 2016 Charles IV)

Last week, the 17th conference of the Government Postage Stamp Printers' Association held in Berlin, Germany, presented the Postal Printing House of Securities, Inc., Prague, Czech Republic (PTC PRAHA, a.s.) with an award for excellence in the category "Best Intaglio Stamp" issued by member countries in 2014-2015 for the stamp featuring the painting "Head of a Girl" by Hans von Aachen, , engraved in 2015 by Miloš Ondráèek.


Some of the master engraver's earlier works have been posted in excellent scans by lithograving:
https://goscf.com/t/9106&whichpage=46#176370
https://goscf.com/t/9106&whichpage=36#157035
https://goscf.com/t/9106&whichpage=175#420926


A fine article by AKPhilately on Miloš Ondráèek, first published in Stamp and Coin Mart of December 2011, appeared last year on http://stampengravers.blogspot.cz/2...k-milos.html

Lovers of the beautiful in engraved stamps wish Mr. Ondráèek all the best and are looking forward to further creations of his.

Florián

Agreed! His work is of a standard that you rarely see these days. He did one stamp for the Great Americans series for the U.S. which can be found here:http://arago.si.edu/category_2043105.html

In my opinion, his stamp and those done by Thomas Hipschen are outstanding while some of the others are merely good.

Great news about the GPSPA award. You must have got that hot off the needle because it is not even mentioned on their website yet! Where did you find the information?

AKPhilately - see http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/zpra...rline-452870

@FLORIAN -- those are awesome. Thanks for improving my favorite thread

Thanks Kirk.

Here are the rest of the yearly issues in the series of Prague Castle paintings by old masters, all of them engraved by Miloš Ondráèek:








All of them as shown on http://www.wnsstamps.post/en/partic...ing_agencies of the World Association for the Development of Philately (WADP) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

Details of the stamps available from https://www.ceskaposta.cz/en/sluzby...ehled-znamek

Florian...thanks for sharing those beauties!
Glad to see some new action on this popular thread.

Two from Tunisia at the hands of Pierre Gandon

Mosque at Monastir....issue of 1953-54




Fruit market....issued 1956-57

Canada..part of the Silver Jubilee Issues of May 1935...First stamps to be supplied by The Canadian Bank Note Co.under a new contract.

The King's Yacht Britannia. Scott 216
Engraver: Harold Osborn

AKPhilately wrote:


I can't see it either and usually they are not hard to spot, often hidden in clothing. Here are a couple to show what we are looking for.







I love these secret marks. Slania did it often but sometimes it could get an engraver into trouble.