Yes Florian the
stamps (countries) I collected were purely for their eye appeal never for how much they would be worth in the distant future.
Seems like many so called collectors nowadays care more about what their
stamps are worth than any enjoyment they get out
of just plain
looking at that stamp.
For instance on this forum I would say that 75%
of the threads are about selling
stamps or what they are worth or what a forum member paid or sold a particular item for.
Do these people even look really look at their
stamps?
But like I said before, "To each their own!"
Even though I bought a few
of the Czechoslovakian
stamps most were in my grandfathers collection and some
of the used ones were
off letters from a time when I corresponded with a young lady from Brno.
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now that hand engraving has generally been and is being abandoned by the very few remaining faithfuls.
Very true. One
of the worst
offenders is Austria. For a country which had some
of the best engravers and printing facilities in the world to just give it up is inexcusable.
Many
of their definitives are now printed in the Netherlands by Enschede mainly because they print
stamps cheaper than the State Printer.
The Austrian State printer has come up with a kind
of replacement called Etch-Art but obviously it's not really
engraving.
See a thread about Etch Art here
https://goscf.com/t/28830&SearchTer...ian,etch,artI
often wonder if stamp collecting will even survive in this age
of constant change but if it does I believe it will in no small part because
of these beautifully engraved
stamps.
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Jindra Schmidt signed his above-mentioned first stamps of 1943 J.Š., not J.S. Asked in 1973 why he chose to sign it like this, he told me he wanted to point out he was Czech, not German.
We are unbelievable lucky here on SCF to have a person post here that actually knew the master engraver Jindra Schmidt.
In my opinion one
of the most prolific and best engravers ever.
Thank you Florian.
Martin
Posted 02/01/2013 9:27 pm
