Collecting By Engraver

Thanks Florian for your post about the passing of Bedrich Housa

Another giant in the Art of Engraving gone.

Here is a set of nine air stamps issued by Greece shows Greek mythological figures, all connected with flying. Stamps were designed by the Greek artist Dimitrios Biskinis (1891-1947 ) and, two of them, the 25 and 100 Dr., engraved by the Czech artist Heinz Bohumil (1894-1940) who engraved many Czechoslovakian and British Empire stamps. The set was issued on November 10, 1935 and four of them reissued in 1937 printed on different paper and have slightly different size.

Phrixos and Helle:



Deadalus and Ikarus:



Iris, the messenger of gods:



Bellerophon riding on Pegasus:



Helios riding the Sun chariot:



Rest of the stamps in the next post:

Here are the Rest:

Hermes, the messenger of the gods:



Athena, goddess of wisdom and war:



Triptolemos riding the Dragon chariot:



The abduction of Ganymede by Zeus:



The complete set on a cover sent registered from Thessaloniki:

LaoPhil, that set is very beautiful and breathtaking.

Thanks, scinde_dawk, for your warm words!

From 1889 up to 1907, all stamps issued for use in French Indochina colony were general stamps show allegorical figures, the same stamps issued for most of the French colonies. In 1905, Paul Doumer, the governor of French Indochina, demanded to have distinctive postage stamps that show local culture. Hence, in 1907, a definitive set of stamps featuring young women of different Indochinese ethnicities was issued for use in the colony.

The set, contains seven different woman designs, was designed by Puyplat based on real photos and engraved by G. Johannet (which his name doesn't appear on the stamps). For years I try to find the original photos used to design these stamps and until today, I found five original photos out of the seven designs. Here they are:

Lao Woman from Province Houaphanh (My postcard is a colourised one. The original PC is of course B&W):


According to Michel catalogue this stamp shows a Tonkinese woman (today in Vietnam) but I think the women in the photo are Khmer [Cambodian], not from Tonkin:


Muong Woman from Tonkin (Today in Vietnam):


Khmer Woman:


Woman from Annam (Today in Vietnam):


I still didn't find the original photos used as models to design the following two stamps:

Annamite Women:


Khmer Woman:

"The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" - Mali, 1971.
designer: Pierre Gandon

Zeus statue at Olympia - engraved by Jacques Combet:


The Great Pyramid of Giza - engraved by Roger Fenneteaux:


The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus - engraved by Jacques Combet:


The Lighthouse of Alexandria - engraved by Pierre Gandon:


The Hanging Gardens of Babylon - engraved by Michel Monvoisin:


The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus - engraved by Pierre Béquet:


The Colossus of Rhodes - engraved by Pierre Gandon:

Aeroespresso, airline between Italy, Greece and Turkey - Greece, 1933
Engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co., London


Pilot checking his airplane:


Apollo temple, Corinth, Greece:

Dornier Do Wal airplane over the Syros island, the Aegean Sea, Greece:

Icarus flying toward the Sun:

Map of the Aeroespresso airline between Italy, Greece and Turkey:

Hermes, the messenger of the gods, and Dornier Do Wal airplane:

Allegory of Flight:

An omnibus set issued by 14 former African French colonies, to commemorate the Philexafrique stamp exhibition held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1969. Each country issued one stamp except Ivory Coast that issued three stamps. In total, 16 stamps were issued together. Each Stamp shows former stamp from the colonial era. In the following posts I will show them all:

Chad - designed and engraved by Georges Bétemps:

Mauritania - designed by Pierre Béquet, engraved by Roger Fenneteaux:

Niger - designed and engraved by Jean Pheulpin:

Dahomey - designed and engraved by Jacques Derrey:

Togo - designed and engraved by Michel Monvoisin:

Will show more next time.

Upper Volta - designed and engraved by Claude Haley:

Mali - designed and engraved by Gilbert Aufschneider:


Senegal - designed and engraved by Cécile Guillame:

Central African Republic - designed and engraved by Jacques Gaut-hier:
Madagascar - designed and engraved by Pierre Forget:

Ivory Coast issued 3 stamps:

Designed and engraved by Claude Haley:

Designed by Claude Haley and engraved by Gilbert Aufschneider:

Designed and engraved by Claude Haley:

Gabon - Designed and engraved by Albert Decaris:

Congo - designed and engraved by Claude Durrens:

Cameroon - designed and engraved by Jacques Combet:


These stamps complete the omnibus set of 16 stamps issued to publicize the PHILEXFRANCE stamp exhibition held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

LaoPhil - Your PHILEXAFRIQUE 1969 omnibus set presents a very fine array of French designers/engravers and their styles of engraving 50 years ago when engraved stamp beauties were at the height of their fame:

Albert Decaris 1901 - 1988 : D/E


Jacques Derrey 1907 - 1975 : D/E


Jean Pheulpin 1907 - 1991 : D/E


Roger Fenneteaux 1913 - 2000 : E


Jacques Combet 1920 - 1993 : D/E


Georges Bétemps 1921 - 1992 : D/E


Claude Durrens 1921 -2002 : D/E


Claude Haley 1923 - 1988 : D

3 x D/E




Pierre Forget 1923 - 2005 : D/E


Gilbert Aufschneider 1927 - : D/E

E


Jacques Gaut-hier 1931 - : D/E


Michel Monvoisin 1932 - 1982 : D/E


Pierre Béquet 1932 - 2012 : D


Cécile Guillame 1933 - 2004 : D/E



Moreover, the memorable stamp designs of an earlier period for each country are incorporated. What an added bonus!

Many thanks!

Florián


P.S. I am afraid there seems to be no way of spelling the name Jacques Gaut-hier without the hyphen.

Thank you very much, Florian, for your efforts and sharing your information. Indeed, there is no way to write the name Jacques Gaut-hier without the hyphen as it should be since the system changes the name to GauTheir. With time I will post more stamps engraved by French engravers from France, French colonies and Francophone countries.

Here is a set shows bull fighting issued by Spain in 1960. I have no information about the designer/s of them. They were engraved by Jose Luis Lopez Sanchez Toda, except the 30 cts which was engraved by German Martin Orbe. The stamps were printed by the Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (FNMT):

The Spanish engraved stamps from the sixties including the
bullfighting issue are some of my favourites.
Great engraving and printing. Amazing what they achieved
by combining only 2 colours.

The only fault I found for that era of Spanish stamps was
the poor centering.

Thanks, lithograving! Correct, Spain issued very beautiful engraved stamps and I will post more from them.

Here is a set of artisans issued by Cambodia in 1965. Stamps show weaver, engraver and basket weaver. No name of the designer/s and engraver/s on the stamps:

The 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Michelangelo, designed by G. Komlev (have no information about the engraver) and issued by the USSR in 1975:

David, Gallery of the Academy of Florence (Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze), Florence, Italy:

Crouching Boy, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia:

The Rebellious Slave, Louvre Museum, Paris, France:

The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican, Italy:

Staircase of the Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana), Florence, Italy:

Christ and the Virgin, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican, Italy: