Collecting By Engraver

Art Stamps, issued by France during 1979:

The Lady with Swans, miniature, 15th century, designed by Pierrette Lambert, engraved by Claude Haley and issued on January 13, 1979:

Diana Bathing, bas-relief by the Norman sculptor Jean Goujon (1510-1566), Ecouen Castle, designed and engraved by Jacques Combet and issued on September 22, 1979:

"Head of Marianne" by Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), engraved by Claude Durrens and issued on November 17, 1979:

My collection of engraved art stamps issued by France is complete from 1961 up to 1979. In my last 19 posts of this thread I posted all of them and the above post of year 1979 is the last one and closes the series. Hope you enjoyed the collection.

I have engraved art stamps issued by France since 1980 until present but not complete. I will post them from time to time.

I added to my African folklore collection, a set of 4 Sunken Die Proofs of the African traditional coiffures stamps signed by the engraver Pierre Béquet. The stamps were designed after Bonnet and issued by the Central African Republic on November 7, 1967. Here are the proofs missing the 10F.:


central area of each proof to emphasis the great engraving:




On the right bottom of each die proof there is an inscription "ep. d'etat". I asked French colonies collectors to explain it and here the answer:

An 'épreuve d'état' means a stage proof, or progress proof, strictly speaking one of the one-colour proofs taken by the engraver during his work (usually 5 to 15 proofs), either on his own hand press, or on his client press.

There is a difference between 'before 1959' and 'after 1959', as in the latter period this kind of proof was controled by the client.

http://www.dieproofs.it/english/pro...ato_eng.html

Art stamps, designed and engraved by Martin Cinovsky and issued by Slovakia on December 18, 2002:

Beheading of St James the greatest, by Master Paul of Levoca, a medieval carver and sculptor of the 15th and 16th century, active mostly in then Carpathian-German town of Levoca, Slovakia:

In the Studio, by Koloman Sokol (1902 – 2003):

Sometimes you don't need a reason to add stamp to your album. This was the case when I saw yesterday this stamp in our weekly club meeting:

The stamp shows a couple of Barn Swallow flying over Paris designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon and issued by France in 1949. It doesn't belong to any of my thematic collection, but when I saw its great engraving and beauty, I didn't hesitate and purchased it although not cheap.

The stamp was issued to publicize the telegraph and telephone congress held in Paris. Other stamps in the set show inventors in the fields of telegraph and telephone:

- Claude Chappe (1763-1805), a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system. Designed and engraved by Achille Ouvré.
- François Arago (1786-1853), a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer and André-Marie Ampère (1775 – 1836), a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism. Designed by André Spitz, engraved by René Cottet.
- Emile Baudot (1845-1903), a French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication. Designed and engraved by Gabriel-Antoine Barlangue.
- Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (1868 – 1932), a French radio pioneer and army general. Designed and engraved by Pierre Munier.

Mossi woman hair style, designed and engraved by Claude Jumelet and issued by Upper Volta on January 24, 1973:


The original photo used by Jumelet to design this stamp:

FDC cancelled with commemorative postmark shows the same woman design:

Portrait paintings, semi-postal stamps issued by Belgium on July 6, 1959 to raise donations to the Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels;

Philip the Good (1396-1467), Duke of Burgundy, engraved by Henri Decuyper:

Charles the Bold (1433-1477), Duke of Burgundy, engraved by Jean de Bast:

Maximilian of Austria (1459-1519), Holy Roman emperor, engraved by Charles Leclercqz:

Philip the Handsome (1478-1506), Duke of Burgundy, engraved by Jean Boulanger:

Charles V (1500-1558), Holy Roman emperor, engraved by Jean de Vos: