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Help Engraver Canadian Stamps Imperial Ecomomic Conference 1932 King George V Medallion Issue

 
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Posted 06/06/2018   3:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Lougheed to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Any leads appreaciated, literature is silent on the desinger and engravers for the Canadian Imperial Economic Connference Issue, the 3 cent was the model for the follow up Medallion series in (1 to 8 cent)

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Posted 06/06/2018   9:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jogil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Based on a sculpture by Edgar Bertram Mackennal.
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Based on a sculpture by Edgar Bertram Mackennal.


An Australian, must look up his history.

I could find no other information from my Gibbons catalogues.
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Posted 06/07/2018   5:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

"Jobless men in a soup kitchen"

By Fred Baumann

Issued late in 1932, Canada's George V Medallion definitives were used until mid-1935, a short span during the hardest years of the century for many Canadians.

I had cheap used examples of these stamps in my callow youth, but barely noticed them.

The bearded profiles lined up across my album page like jobless men at a soup kitchen, a brief queue between more elegant portraits of the graying, medal-bedecked king that preceded and followed them. You get a sense of the contrast in the three stamps shown below.

Equipped by my fellow collectors with half a century of insight, I now know the Medallions merit a more appreciative look.

These elements were first combined with the profile of George V created by Australian sculptor Mackennal on a 3¢ red letter-rate stamp (Scott 192), one of three commemoratives released July 12, 1932, to herald the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa.

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Photographs of the bas relief, and die proofs.

http://postalhistorycorner.blogspot...32-1935.html
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Posted 06/08/2018   11:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jogil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting that the designer was Australian and that the printing press used was a U.S. Stickney rotary press by a Canadian company, the British American Bank Note Company.
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I cannot see anything in Unitrade about who the engraver was. But if you have an interest in this issue. Here is the listed variety for the 3c. Unitrade 192i, Broken E in postage. On an Imperial bank cover, used a couple of weeks after issue.





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