Metal Casting On Stamps?

Pouring ladle, printed by lithography, and issued by Poland on November 26, 1976 to commemorate the first steel production at the Katowice Steelworks, Scott No. 2184.

- nethryk

Smelting, designed and engraved by Albert Decaris, and issued for use in the French-administered Saar Protectorate on April 1, 1948, Scott No. 198.

- nethryk

While looking for space stamps for that other worldly thread (most of what I have has been posted), I came across this handsome Russian steel foundry stamp.



Can't seem to locate it in the catalogue though, so I'm unable to tell you anything about it.

It's Russia. 1946. 4th Stalin "Five-Year Reconstruction Plan"
SG1218 60 Million tons of steel

Steelworker, designed by Adalbert Pilch, printed by photogravure, and issued by Austria on December 4, 1986, Scott No. 1376.

- nethryk

CHILE - 2005
100 years of "El Teniente" copper mine (located in Los Andes mountains)

Here is an image of a stamp depicting pouring steel from a ladle, designed and engraved by Frank Manley, and issued by Australia on September 10, 1947 as one of three stamps in a set commemorating the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Hunter River estuary, site of Newcastle, by Lieutenant John Shortland, Scott No. 208.

- nethryk

Copper pyrites mine, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., and issued for use in Cyprus on August 1, 1955, Scott No. 171.

- nethryk

"Blast furnace," designed by H. Rodríguez, printed by photogravure, and issued by Mexico on November 4, 1976 to commemorate the inauguration of the Siderúrgica Lázaro Cárdenas "Las Truchas" steel plant, Scott No. 1153.

- nethryk

Hello nethryk

As an old steelmaking profissional, I think that the picture of Mexico stamp you have posted it is not a blast furnace. In my opinion it is an oxygen converter tilted 90º and showing its radiant mouth and flowing the slag. Of course the topical is the same.

casselo - Thanks for the expert clarification! Once again Scott's description appears to be somewhat lacking. I have read that this plant does in fact contain a blast furnace, so perhaps the artist's intent in creating this image was to symbolize the entire steel-making process? - nethryk

nethryk - I agree with you because the blast furnace is a global symbol of the integrated steelworks. The picture seems to be a photo and not a paint. And the blue strip down view can't be a part of furnace which isn't a suspended construction. That blue strip seems the blue sky in the back. So, only a view of an oxygen converter or, I admit, a ladle torpedo car can be similar to this picture.

Here is an image of a booklet stamp depicting buildings at the historic Iggesund Ironworks, built in 1865, designed after a photograph by Ragnar Andersson, engraved by Czeslaw Slania, and issued by Sweden on June 4, 1980, Scott No. 1327, Facit No. 1126. Note: The well-preserved ironworks, which contains two blast furnaces, a Bessemer furnace and several smithies and hammers, is open as a museum in the summer.

- nethryk

Blast furnace, printed by photogravure, and issued by Japan on December 1, 2008 as one of a set of six stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of the iron and steel industry, Scott No. 3078e.

- nethryk

CHILE 2001

Copper Mining