The American Bank Note Company

Re: The American Bank Note Company et al

I value workmanship.

Good-looking well-executed stamps of any country or subject are, well, good-looking well-executed stamps.

https://goscf.com/t/9106 ... I know that some of y'all collect by engraver, but:

Q/ Is anybody collecting by printer? (ABNC, Waterlow, etc)

Q/ Are there existing albums or album page sets for individual printers?

Q/ Are there clubs or study groups for individual printers?

http://stamps.org/Specialty-Societies ... I did not see a relevant Specialty Society at the APS

http://www.americantopicalassn.org/...klists.shtml ... I did not see a relevant Check List at the ATA

It seems to me that, what with the opportunities to collect the attendant ephemera, Collecting By Printer ought to be, like, a Thing.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I'm sure you remember this ABNC stamp ikeypikey





From wikipedia:: Following the initial production of U.S. currency by the government's Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 1862, ABNCo sought a new source of demand for its services. They found it in foreign lands. The company would eventually go on to supply security paper and bank notes to 115 foreign countries.

Thanks for the kind words, but my encyclopedic knowledge of ABNC stamps falls short of the target that you've set

This stamp shows a nice variety of those whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts elements that I find so attractive in engraved stamps:

- simple horizontal lines to create the sky;

- little squiggly horizontal lines to create the road surface; and,

- sets of simple vertical lines to create the buildings in the background ... note that all of those buildings are made of identically width'd and identically spaced lines.

Clean design, clean execution, lovely.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

PS: I used 'squiggly' in the technical/professional sense of the term, so don't bother ...

The American Bank Note Company has printed Canadian stamps for some time along with its Canadian subsidiary the Canadian Bank Note Company. They printed many very nice looking engraved stamps which were mostly line perforated 12. In 1922, they first started dry printing on pregummed stamp paper. After they lost the U.S. printing to the BEP, it appears that Canada was their big customer.

Yes, no and none that I'm aware of

I collect stamps (and other material) printed by Perkins, Bacon Co. Ltd. who under the name Perkins, Bacon & Petch printed the Penny Black and Penny Red. Much of the enjoyment is that there are no catalogues, or printed pages for such a theme.

All the information on the stamps they printed and the countries they dealt with have come from searching catalogues (page by page!), general internet searches, books, articles in magazines such as the London Philatelist and visiting the Royal Philatelic Society in London where they have the Perkins Bacon archives.

I print all my own pages on Lighthouse blank pages and currently have 122 pages in 2 albums. They went into liquidation in 1935 so there is less material than some of the other UK printing companies such as De La Rue and Waterlow. I concentrate on the later years as these are more affordable than Penny Blacks and Cape of Good Hope triangles!

For me, the perfect theme.

Mike

Waterlow & Sons

http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_inf...?bookid=2208

Mike, your Perkins Bacon collection is great to hear about. I am an RPSL member and would be interested in seeing more posts from you about what you have found and how you have organized it. Scans or images of your pages would be a delight.

Chris

To all wanting to buy the Waterlow book highlighted by KGB: Sure, go ahead and buy it, but do NOT expect to see very much at all about stamps within its pages. We see stamps as a major part of Waterlow's output, the Waterlow family do not, it seems. GLENN

Glenn, this reminds me of the old joke about the statue unveiled for the centenary of Pushkin's death: a giant statue of Stalin, holding a small volume of Pushkin's poems. We are the tail that did not wag the dog. Cheers,