Engraved Stamps - Take 2

Thanks for sharing those beautiful stamps, Dvaldemoro

Another stamps engraved ... it's "very tipical spanish, I Know"

For me, The best stamps engraved of Spain .... but the best, best, best!

¡¡LOS TOROS!

Love that 15cts bull at upper left!

Those are beautiful engravings from Spain. I totally agree with you about these last ones being the Best.

We can't forget this stamps

One of the better Canadian stamps engraved.

US Army set of 1936

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I do love those Spanish engraved stamps especially the bi-coloured ones.
Regarding the Canada ones saying 'one of the better ones' is very much a matter of personal preference but with so many great ones to choose from we are spoilt for choice.

Really nice engravings from the US. The portraits are amazing but I've always loved engraved landscapes, so that West Point stamp is inspiring.

I received another Swedish booklet recently. I really like these items.

Click for very large image.

Sweden Scott 751A 1971


One of my favourite Slania engraved stamps.
It was one of the first Swedish stamps printed in mulicolour
recess engraving. I believe it was produced by a Giori press
similar to the type the US Bureau of Printing & Engraving used for many
years.

Lithograving -- that one is amazing; the horses unbelievable.

Is there significance to the horn on the door of the coach?

KirkS

I agree, a super stamp.

Posthorn on door indicates a mail coach.

An interesting thread. Yes, everyone has a favorite and this is one of mine if only for the detail and multiplicity of topics. Trains, plains and automobiles. No, I lie, not a car in sight but it's made up for by horses, dogsleds and an ocean liner steaming through the Rockies.

Really nice engravings. That special delivery stamp from Canada has a nice combination of themes from the old days. Were dogs and sleds used in normal weather conditions also? Thought the dogsleds were only used in the snow.

For those interested the Mail Coach stamp posted by Lithograving is an oil painting from 1928 by Eigil Schwab (name is on the bottom left corner) which is kept at the Postal Museum in Stockholm.
A terrific multicolor engraving.

Another amazing one I haven't found yet is the different shades of blue of the 1971 Container Transport stamp. If you have it Litho, I'd be very happy if you could show it with your brilliant scans. The Facit catalogue doesn't do it justice in my mind.

I think we've also seen:
- 1970 Swedish Industrial Life (a sheet of 6 stamps)
- 1970 Around the Arctic Circle (strip of 5) - although they aren't multicolour, they're full of detail

Could go on and on.

I think this is the one you are referring to Andrew.
The irony is that if this was a photograph you wouldn't
give it a second glance but since it's engraved one is apt
to study it for awhile.

Whereas before the advent of Photography when illustrations
in books, newspapers etc were either engraved or typographed
if people then could have seen a real photograph they would have
been blown away.

Scott 746 1971