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Iso Security Bank Note Co. List Of Engraved Stamps

 
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Posted 01/13/2022   10:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add GregAlex to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I'm trying to identify items engraved by Edward Grove during his time with Security Bank Note Co. of Philadelphia (1947-1962). The company later merged to become Security-Columbian BNC.

Does anyone know of a resource that lists the stamps and currency printed by Security?
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Posted 01/19/2022   10:57 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add youpiao to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This is a tough one. Even the philatelic articles on him picture only his banknotes, medals, and US stamps.
I have Gene Hessler's "The International Engraver's Line," and Grove does not even have an entry.
I shall continue this quest.
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Posted 01/19/2022   4:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add GregAlex to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Grove was American, so he is listed in Hessler's original "The Engraver's Line" but it's a relatively short entry.

Thanks for your help!
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Posted 01/19/2022   5:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add youpiao to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That makes sense. I was thinking international stamps.
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Posted 09/20/2024   12:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jorgesurcl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Edward Ryneal Grove (1912-2002)
When he worked at Security Banknote Co. he engraved stamps for Iran, Bolivia, Cuba, Haiti, Panama, Paraguay and the Philippines.
He also engraved banknotes (Laos, Indonesia, Sudan and Vietnam)




Those from Haiti shown before were not issued
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Posted 09/24/2024   2:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jorgesurcl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
These are the stamps printed by Security Bank Note Co.
E.R. Grove engraved several of them.
Paraguay:
1947 - 50th Anniv. of the Archdiocese of Asuncion. Sc.447/450 and C168/C175
1950 - Franklin D. Roosevelt. C184/C188
Iran
1950 - 31st Birthday of Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. Sc.935/940
Bolivia:
1951 - 4th Cent. Founding of La Paz. Sc.342/350 and C140/C149
1951 - South American Athletics Games. Sc.352/358 and C150/156
Panama:
1940 - Pan American Union. Sc. C62
1948 - 45th Anniv. Independence. Sc.C88/C95
Philippines:
1952 - Panapex Manila. Sc 580/581 and Sc. C73
Haiti:
1949 - UPU. Not Issued
Cuba:
Security Bank Note Co. produced many dies and plates for Cuba.But the stamps were printed in La Habana.
Many dies were engraved by Grove, but he wasn't the only one. I also know Charles A. Brooks (BEP), who worked for a couple of years.
(Cuba 1947 - Charles A. Brooks)

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Others countries with stamps printed by SBNCo. :
Honduras:
1943 - Airmail issue. C128/C142
El Salvador:
1948 - Gen.Manuel Jose Arce. Sc.605 and C108/C110
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Posted 09/29/2024   4:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add GregAlex to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Great information @jorgesurcl and thank you for posting all those stamp proofs. I had also heard of those countries for which Grove engraved banknotes. However, I've never found details on which particular banknotes they were. If you can point me to anything specific, I'd be very grateful.

Here is another Grove autograph on a cover that got me started on this search to begin with.

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Posted 11/01/2024   10:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jorgesurcl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Some others engravers who worked in this Company in the 1930s-1940s:

Vignette engravers:
William R. Kern
Anthony Kitts

Frame & Lettering engravers:
Harry Zimmerman
William M. Moninger
Joseph McLaverty
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Posted 03/10/2025   5:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jorgesurcl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Edward R. Grove (905 Blythe Ave. Drexel Hill, PA) appears as new member in The Essay-Proof Society.
Information in The Essay-Proof Journal, January 1957, Vol.14, No.1. Whole No.53

Images of unissued stamps (Haiti UPU 1949) engraved by him (Security Banknote Co.)

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Posted 03/14/2025   09:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jorgesurcl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
(From Essay-Proof Journal )



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