Collecting By Engraver

Reconstruction of the tomb of Avicenna – Iran (II)


Here is the second set issued on June 11, 1949:

Ardashir II, the eleventh king of the Sasanian Empire, relief from Taq-e Bustan ("Arch of the Garden"):

Narses, the seventh emperor of the Sasanian Empire, relief from Naqsh-e Rostam (near Persepolis), Shiraz:

The Roman Emperor Valerian is defeated by Shapur I, second Sasanian King of Iran, relief from at Naqsh-e Rustam, Shiraz:

Arch of Ctesiphon, Sasanian-era Persian monument, Taq Kasra; (today in Iraq):

Ahura Mazda and Ardashir I, stone relief from Sasanian era, at Naqsh-e Rustam, Shiraz - shows Ardashir I's coronation ceremony in which he receives his kingship seal from Ahura Mazda, the creator and highest deity of Zoroastrianism:

Local motifs and animals - Liberia, 1920:

Cape Mesurado:

President Daniel E. Howard:

Arms of Liberia:

Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus):

Coffee Plant:

Leopard (Panthera pardus):

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Liberian Village:

Canoe:

Saint-Paul River:

Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus):

Great Hornbill (Buceros bicornis):

African Elephant (Loxodonta africana):

Winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine, particularly in genetics and molecular biology, and their contribution, designed by Göran Österlund, engraved by Martin Mörck and issued by Sweden on November 24, 1989:

Thomas Morgan (1866-1945), USA, 1933 for his discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.

Stamp shows fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) used as models organism to study the role of Chromosomes and (bottom) recombination between Drosophila male and female chromosomes creating new type of chromosomes. Note that the name "SVERIGE" and the stamp value are duplicated like chromosomes.

James Watson, USA, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, Great Britain, 1962 for discovery of the double helix structure of DNA molecule.

Stamp shows DNA double helix and X-ray diffraction of the DNA molecule (made by Wilkins). Note that the name "SVERIGE" and the value are written in a shape of double helix.

Werner Arber, Switzerland, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith, USA, 1978, for their discovery of the restriction enzymes, bacterial enzymes that cleave DNA molecule. This discovery led to the development of the recombinant DNA technology.

Stamp shows DNA fragment cleaved by restriction enzyme (in this case, by enzyme produced from Haemophilus influenzae bacterium) and bacteria contain recombinant DNA plasmids artificially created by using restriction enzymes. Note that the name "SVERIGE" and the stamp value are "cleaved with restriction enzymes".

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), USA, 1983 for her discovery of genetic transposition and the transposable elements ("jumping genes"), DNA sequences that can change their positions within the genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genome size.

Stamp shows Barbara McClintock and maize plants used by her to study their cytogenetics. McClintock earned her Noble Prize about 40 years after her discovery!!!

Mosaics and Fresco from Pompeii, Italy, a set of three imperforate stamps, designed and engraved by Georges Bétemps and issued by Mali on January 21, 1974.

Vagrant musicians, mosaic by Dioscurides of Samos From Villa of Cicero, Pompeii:

Alexander the Great in the battle of Issus - Mosaic from house of the Faun, Pompeii:

Detail from "Heracles and young Telephus". The detail shows the Lydian Queen Omphale and a Satyr-boy or the god Pan holding a set of pipes – Fresco from Pompeii:

Here is the complete fresco: Heracles is standing in front of the Queen and the young Telephus is on the bottom left (suckled by a deer):

Semi-postal stamps for charity issued for Saar Protectorate (Saarland) by the French government:

Paintings of Children - 1952

Portrait of Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov (1772-1817) as a child, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, designed and engraved by Jules Piel:

Christ the Good Shepherd, by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), designed and engraved by Henry Cheffer:

Portrait of a Boy, by Georg Melchior Kraus (1737-1806), designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon:


Paintings of Children - 1954:

Boys eating Grapes and Melon, Detail, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), designed and engraved by Pierre Munier:

Portrait of Bia de' Medici, by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), designed and engraved by Jean Pheulpin:

Portrait of Baron Emil von Maucier, by Johann Friedrich Dieterich (1787-1846), designed and engraved by Henry Cheffer:


Paintings of Women - 1956:

La belle Ferronnière - Portrait of Lucrezia Crivelli, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), engraved by Charles Mazelin:

Saskia, by Rembrandt (1606 - 1669), engraved by Jules Piel:

Woman playing Spinet (small piano), detail by Frans Floris, (1519 – 1570), engraved by Pierre Gandon:

People of Berlin in the 19th century, designed by Finke, engraved by Hans-Joachim Fuchs or by Egon Falz and issued for use in Berlin on February 6, 1969:

The Cab Driver, 1875, by Heinrich Rudolf Zille (1858 – 1929):

The Newspaper Seller, 1889, by Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857 – 1915):

Horse-drawn omnibus, 1890, by Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857 – 1915):

The Cobbler's Apprentice, 1839, by Franz Krüger (1797 - 1857):

The Cobbler, 1833, by Adolph von Menzel (1815 – 1905):

The Borsig Forge, 1878, by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842 – 1915):
Borsig is a railroad machinery manufacturing company founded by Johann Friedrich August Borsig (1804 – 1854)

Berliner Ladies, 1839, by Franz Krüger (1797 - 1857):

Berliners at the Brandenburg Gate, 1889, by Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857 – 1915):

A long set of 19 stamps shows local motives from the different colonial territories was issued on March 24, 1947 for use in French West Africa (AOF). The stamps were designed and engraved by different French designers and engravers (same one for each stamp). Here is the first part of the set:

Designed and Engraved by Pierre Gandon - Ivory Coast and Guinea:




Designed and Engraved by Georges Betemps - Dahomey and Togo:


Designed and Engraved by Charles Mazelin: Senegal and Mauritania:

Here are the rest stamps of the above set:

Designed and Engraved by Raoul Serres - Togo, Mauritania, Niger, and French Sudan (Mali):






Designed and Engraved by Pierre Munier - Niger, Dahomey and French Sudan (Mali):

A set of 14 stamps with 6 different designs, shows Congolese artisans and other aspects, designed by Emile Vloors, and issued in 1925 for use in Belgian Congo:

Wood Carver, Hunter, Weaver and Art Decorator:




Ubangi Man Headdress:

Cattle:

Impressionist paintings, issued by Monaco on November 12, 1974:

The Box, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919), engraved by Claude Durrens:

The Dance Class, by Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917), engraved by Georges Bétemps:

The Hanged Man's House, by Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906), engraved by Robert Cami:

Impression - Sunrise, by Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), engraved by Pierre Gandon:

The Entrance to the Village of Voisins, by Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903), engraved by Jean Pheulpin:

The Flood at Port Marly, by Alfred Sisley (1839 – 1899), engraved by Georges Bétemps:

What is the oldest engraved stamp in your collection?

Although I love very much engraved stamps and love posting in this thread and in other web sites, I don't regard myself as an "Engraved stamp collector". Most of the engraved stamps I am posting are part of my different thematic and classic collections like: primates (apes and monkeys), mythologies of the world, folklore and countries like Laos which is my main priority, Cambodia, Burma etc. Only in the last two years I started to keep engraved stamps that are not fitting any of my collections but I find very attractive.

Looking at my different collections, I think my oldest engraved stamps are two identical stamps in a set show Orangutan issued for use in North Borneo in 1899 in two colors. The set was engraved and printed by Waterlow & Sons of London (Information by Nethryk, page 22 of this thread):

One of the 1899 stamps in green and black. The second is black and carmine:

These two stamps were reissued several time (until 1921) with different overprints: Postage due, British protectorate, Postage due on British protectorate):

Stamps overprinted for use in Labuan (this particular yellowish/brown black stamp was not issued, the carmine one in the second scan is the issued stamp):


There are many different varieties of these stamps, hence a large area of research.

Next oldest stamp in my collection is from 1903 issued for use in Madagascar. So, what is your oldest engraved stamp? would like to see several examples

Art, semi-postal stamps issued to raise donations to a national art exhibition, designed by Ernst Schrom and issued by Austria on June 20, 1947:

Corvinus goblet, engraved by Rudolf Zenziger:
Have no information about this goblet but I assume Corvinus related to Matthias Corvinus (1443 – 1490), King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490.

Allegory of Providence Statue ("Providentia") by Georg Rafael Donner (1693 – 1741), Providentia Fountain, Vienna, engraved by Hubert Woyty-Wimmer:

Melk Abbey (Stift Melk), a Benedictine abbey, Melk, engraved by Rupert Franke:

Wife of the Vienna physician Dr. Brante, engraved by Herbert Toni Schimek:

Farmer's wife with children, by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 - 1865), engraved by Herbert Toni Schimek:

Main gate of Belvedere Palace, Vienna, engraved by Rudolf Zenziger:

sculpture of Nymph Egeria at the castle fountain in Schönbrunn, engraved by Hubert Woyty-Wimmer:

National Library, Vienna, engraved by Rupert Franke:

The printer Ernst Röhm, portrayed in his workplace, a copper plate in-drawing, by Schmutzer (?), engraved by Rupert Franke:

Girl with straw hat, by Friedrich von Amerling (1803 – 1887), engraved by Herbert Toni Schimek:

Yugoslavian Engraved Art Stamps

During years 1960-1970's, Yugoslavia issued stamp sets show paintings by Yugoslavian artists. The stamps are combined engraved and photogravure and were printed in Austria State Printer. In the next posts I will show a selection of these great sets of art stamps.

Yugoslavian Engraved Art Stamps (I)

Paintings by Yugoslavian Painters, designed by Andreja Milenkovic and issued by Yugoslavia on November 29, 1967:

The Watchtower, by Djura Jaksic, engraved by Stanimir Babic:

The Young Sultaness, by Vlaho Bukovac, engraved by Tanasije Krnjajic:

Family Visit, by Josip Petkovsek, engraved by Stanimir Babic:

Cockfight, by Paja Jovanovic, engraved by Velibor Cvetkovic:

Spring, by Ivana Kobilca, engraved by Velibor Cvetkovic: