Czech Stamp Engravers

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed by Jan Solpera and issued on May 9, 1987:

Three Saints, stained-glass window detail, by Frantisek Seraf Sequens (1836-1896), a Czech church and history painter, engraved by Ladislav Jirka and Milos Ondrácek

Coat of Arms, New Land Rolls Hall, 1605, engraved by Josef Hercík

Art treasures of Prague Castle, issued and issued by Czechoslovakia on May 9, 1979:

Burial crown of King Ottokar II, engraved by Jirí Antonín Svengsbír

Portrait of Mrs. Reitmayer, by Karel Purkyne (1834-1868), engraved by Ladislav Jirka

Souvenir sheets from the long series "Prague Castle".

St. Matthew, from illuminated manuscript, 11th century, designed and engraved by Josef Hercík and issued on September 30, 1967:

St. Peter Mosaic from the St. Vitus Cathedral, engraved by Ladislav Jirka and issued on May 9, 1968:

Art treasures of Prague Castle, issued by Czechoslovakia on May 9, 1978:

King Ottokar the second, St Vitus Cathedral. and King Charles IV, engraved by Jirí Antonín Svengsbír

Art treasures of Prague Castle, issued by Czechoslovakia on September 28, 1982:

St. George and the Dragon, 1373, engraved by Ladislav Jirka

Tomb of King Vratislav I, 10th century, engraved by Milos Ondracek

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed and engraved by Jirí Antonín Svengsbír and issued by Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1981:

- Carved Dragon, Palais Lobkowicz, 16th Century

- St. Vitus Cathedral, by J. Sember and G. Dobler, 19th cent.

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed and engraved by Jirí Antonín Svengsbír and issued by Czechoslovakia on June 7, 1977:

Onyx footed bowl, 1350 and Bronze horse, 1619

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed and engraved by Jirí Antonín Svengsbír and issued by Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1980:

- Old Palace gateway (1520) and Armorial lion, 16th century

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed by Jan Solpera, engraved by Milos Ondracek and issued on August 25, 1983:

Emperor Rudolf II, by Adrian DeVries

Kinetic relief, Timepiece, by Rudolf Svoboda

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed by Jan Solpera and issued by Czechoslovakia on August 9, 1984:

Crowing rooster, St. Vitus Cathedral, 19th century, engraved by Václav Fajt

King David from the Roudnice book of Psalms, engraved by Miloš Ondracek:

Art treasures of Prague Castle, designed by Jan Solpera, engraved by Václav Fajt and issued by Czechoslovakia on June 6, 1990:

Gold and jeweled hand

Medallion of the Bohemian King Premysl Otakar II

Art treasures of Prague Castle

Hermes and Athena, by Bartholomy Springer (1546-1611), engraved by Josef Hercík and issued on May 7, 1970

Abbess' Crosier, 16th century, designed and engraved by Jiri Antonín Svengsbír and issued on May 9, 1971

Adam and Eve, column capital, St. Vitus Cathedral, designed and engraved by Jiri Antonín Svengsbír and issued on May 9, 1972


These stamps complete the series of art treasures of Prague Castle. I think all stamps and souvenir sheets of this series were posted in this thread started in the first page of this thread, in the post by lithograving in 2018. The Czech republic continued to issued more stamps of this series.

As I have written in my previous post, the Czech Republic continued to issued more stamps about art treasures of Prague Castle. Here is a sheet, designed and engraved by Milos Ondracek, issued on May 28, 2014 contains two identical stamps show detail from "The Olympian gods assembly" by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) from the Prague Castle art collections:

The stamp probably shows goddess Aphrodite (Roman: Venus) standing in front of Zeus:

The SS margin, which is also engraved by Ondracek, shows the complete art work. From the figures, I can identify: in the center, god Zeus, father of the gods. In his left, Hermes and Ares. In his right side, Poseidon, Athena and Hera, his wife. Beside gods, there are many other characters like Ganymede, Pan, Helios riding his Sun chariot, Hercules, Cupids, Nymphs etc. (Since I didn't find any information about this art work, this description is my own and I can be wrong):

Art stamps, from the yearly art series, issued by Czechoslovakia on November 27, 1990:

St. Agnes of Bohemia (detail), statue by Josef Vaclav Myslbek (1848 – 1922), engraved by Josef Hercík:

The Slavs in their Original Homeland (detail), engraved by Milos Ondracek:

St John the Baptist, detail by Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), engraved by Václav Fajt:

One of the best sets of space exploration stamps I know was designed by Jaroslav Lukavsky, engraved by Jan Mracek or Bedrich Housa and issued by Czechoslovakia on April 27, 1964. Although I have the stamps on covers, worth to show them here:

30h: Yuri Gagarin, first man in Space
60h: Gherman Titov.
80h: John Glenn.
1K: Scott Carpenter.
1.2K: Pavel Popovich and Andriyan Nikolayev.
1.4K: Walter Schirra.
1.6K: Gordon Cooper.
2K: Valentina Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky.