The 50 cents munitions stamp is an excellent example of how engravers translated photographs into miniature works of art.
As you can see the so-called "smudge" was copied from the photograph used by the engraver.
Unfortunately engraving is becoming a lost art. Today's "engravers" no longer engrave by hand but create their intaglio images digitally. Anyone can be an engraver these days.
That $2 stamp shows a terrible portrait of our Queen on the right. There seems to be little respect for her in the postal service as she rarely appears now.
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Posted 11/01/2013 09:52 am
