Engraved Stamps - Take 2

I took out a book from the library the other day, titled The Art And Design Of Canadian Bank Notes
produced by the Bank of Canada, 2006.
It traces Canadian banknotes from 1935 to the present and is very
relative to stamps production since most of these banknote engravers
also worked on stamps including Silas R. Allen, George Gunderson and Jorge Peral.
Czeslaw Slania is also mentioned since he engraved Sir Wilfried Laurier's face on the $5 issued in 2002
which is currently still in use.
The two printers Canadian Bank Note and British American Bank Note
also produce (BABN no longer) stamps of course.
One interesting thing I learned was that the German printer Giesecke&Devrient who is now the parent company
of BA International (formerly BABN) produced the $50 bill issued in 2004.
G&D was formerly Wertpapierdruckerei Leipzig the state printer of East Germany and now prints stamps for German (Deutsche) Post.
It's a great read with superb illustration tracing how banknotes or stamps for that matter are designed, engraved and printed.
Beautiful book.

I never thought I would see kangaroos on Swedish stamps!

The kangaroos are in honour of Patrick White, the Great Unread and Unreadable Australian Novelist.

Isn't that kind of harsh Tony?
I have never read any off his stuff, actually never even heard of
him but he did get the Nobel for literature.
But wait, there is politics behind awarding these prizes, isn't there?

Lithograving, I don't recommend reading White (Voss, The Tree of Man etc). You'll feel like slashing your wrists after the first ten pages. Not a cheery writer - all Gothic gloom, and horrible deaths in the Outback.

hey, Halifax area libraries have one copy to loan out of that Designs book and I reserved it. They have two in reference. It sounds good.

You will enjoy the book, Puzzler.

Tony thanks for warning me about White. No worry though, I only read non-fiction ,history mostly.
But... if I'm ever suicidal I will consider him.

I read up a little on White and our libraries here have a lot of his books. It seems that Australians think that he doesn't write about Australia the way it really is but in America people thought the books were great. A best seller at the time was Riders in the Chariot. I may get it and see what I think as I enjoy reading fiction.

I think I recall Riders in the Chariot being described as one of White's most approachable books, so do try it, Puzzler.

I will change the subject and show a copy of my Unitrade/Scott #34, the half cent small queen. The centering is not great but it is MNH.

Goose girl Scott#1027

Two nice engraved stamps with pronounced colour shifts:

Lets go back in time a bit...Guatemala Scott RA1