Czech Stamp Engravers

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1970

9th World Soccer Championships held in Mexico City

Designer : Anna Podzemna

Engravers : Josef Hercik ( 20h,60h & 1,80K) Ladislav Jirka ( 40h) Jindra Schmidt ( 1k) Jan Mracek (1,20K)


Printing Process : Combination , 1 colour (black) engraved & multicolour photogravure

Scott 1704 – 1709)

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1970

Congress of the Czechoslovak Socialist Youth Federation

Designer : Ivan Strnad

Engraver : Josef Hercik

Printing Process : Combination , 1 colour (black ) engraved and 3 colour photogravure

Scott 1710



For Scott 1711 - 1715 see page 7

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1970


Interkosmos , the collaboration of communist countries in various phases of space research.

Designer : Jaroslav Lukavsky

Engravers : Bedrich Housa (20h, 1K & 1,60) Milos Ondracek ( 40h,60h & both 1,20K)

Printing Process : Combination , 1 colour (black) engraved & multicolour photogravure

Scott 1716 – 1721. Scott 1720A was issued in 1971.









For Scott 1722 – 1725 see page 3

CZECHOSLOVAKIA
STAMP DAY 1970

Designer : Miloslav Urbasek

Engraver : Jindra Schmidt

Printing Process : Combination , 1 colour (red) engraved and 2 colour photogravure


Scott 1726

Czechoslovakian Car Industry, designed by Frantisek Hudecek, engraved by Ladislav Jirka (30h) and Jindra Schmidt and issued on March 25, 1969:

30h.: Tatra, Baldachin-top Car and Four-seat Coupe of 1900-1905.
1.6K.: Laurin & Klement, 1907.
1.8K.: First Prague bus,1907, and sectionalized Skoda bus, 1967.

Here is the definitive set of 13 stamps show occupations issued in 1954. Several designer and engravers were involved in creating this set. I will show it in three parts

Construction worker, designed by Jan Charles Vondrous and engraved by Jaroslav Goldschmied:

Nurse, designed by Anna Podzemna-Suchardova and engraved by Jan Mracek:

Postman, designed by Anna Podzemna-Suchardova and engraved by Jirí Antonin Svengsbir:

Foundry worker, designed by Ivan Strnad and engraved by Ladislav Jirka:

Soldier, designed by Bohumil Matejicek and engraved by Jiri Antonín Svengsbir:

Metal Worker, designed by Vaclav Nemecek and engraved by Jan Mracek:

Textile Worker, designed by Zdenek Adamek and engraved by Bedrich Housa:

Agricultural, designed by Alexandr Vladimir Hrska and engraved by Bodhan Roule:

Scientist, designed by Zdenek Adamek and engraved by Jan Mracek:

Miner, designed by Vladimir Silovsky and engraved by Bedrich Housa

Pediatrician, designed by Mario Stretti and engraved by Bodhan Roule

Train Driver, designed by Cyril Bouda and engraved by Bodhan Roule

Chemist (and Carboxyl group), designed by Mario Stretti and engraved by Bodhan Roule

Czechoslovakia honored its many stamp designers and engravers and issued stamps commemorating them. Most of the stamps are same shape and size and show the person and one of its famous stamp.

Here is the stamp engraver Bohdan Roule (1921-1960) and a die of the Gray Heron stamp he engraved (didn't find it in the catalogue), designed by Vodak, engraved by Ladislav Jirka and issued by Czechoslovakia on December 18, 1985 to publicize the stamp day:

FDC postmark and cachet show engraving tool:

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1990

The souvenir sheet was issued for Stamp World London 90.
and to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the first postage stamp.

Designed and engraved by : Bedrich Housa

Printing process : multicolour engraving from flat plates

Scott 2789

Czechoslovakia issued during 1964-1991 a long series of about 50 stamp and 4 SS's show the beauty of Prague Castle. Member lithograving posted many of them in this thread. From time to time I will show other sets of this series.

Prague Castle, issued om May 9, 1966:

Belvedere Palace and St. Vitus Cathedral, designed by Cyril Bouda and engraved by Ladislav Jirka:

Madonna, altarpiece from St George's Church (1220), designed by Jaroslav Svab and engraved by Bedrich Housa:

Crown of St. Wenceslas (1346), designed and engraved by Jiri Antonín Svengsbir:

FDC with cachet designed and engraved by Cyril Bouda:

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed by Jan Solpera and issued on September 28, 1988:

- Pottery jug, 17th cent., engraved by Václav Fajt

- St. Catherine with Angel, 1580, by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), engraved by Milos Ondrácek

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed by Jan Solpera and issued on May 9, 1989:

- Kaiser Karl IV., Bas-relief by Alexander Colin (1527/9-1612), engraved by Ladislav Jirka and Milos Ondracek


- Vaclav Vavrinec Reiner (Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, 1689-1743), a Baroque painter who lived and died in Prague, Bohemia, Self-portrait, engraved by Vaclav Fajt

Prague Castle, designed and engraved by Josef Hercík and issued by Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1985:

- Presidential Palace Gate 1768 and St. Vitus Cathedral

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed by Jan Solpera and issued on June 6, 1986:

Jeweled funerary pendant, 9th Cent., engraved by Václav Fajt

Allegory of Blossoms, sculpture by Jaroslav Horejc (1886-1983), engraved by Miloš Ondrácek