Engraved Stamps - Take 2

Nice stamp backroads

The Vignette is so busy, you almost miss
the gothic? arch that frames it.
Maybe a Canadian church or parliment bldgs?

The five stamp 1972 Tourism set was engraved by 3 different engravers.
Majvor Franzen, Heinz Gutschmiedt and Czeslaw Slania.

Scott 928 - 932



Note the inverted Z in the engravers name.

Rod, the Gothic Arch, you are correct, has the sharp point at the top. I see, however, some
interesting Moorish influence perhaps?

Has anyone posted the Sweden 1972 Gustavian art set yet?

I agree with you bfranton, it looks quite Moorish more so than
Gothic but according to the Canadian Postal Archives Database it
is Gothic.

Not yet but I would like to see it.

Further regarding that SD stamp. I have not been able to find a specific engraver so I assume it's in-house engravers at American Bank Note Co., Ottawa. Its described in Boggs as having an "ecclesiastical motif".

More Slania goodness...wish I had it to share. Anyone?

[edit: referring to the Gustavian art set...]

Interesting comments on the arch...Thanks.


Re: Posthorn on coach.

Indicates Royal Mail, the advent of the coach
offered a compound raise in safety of transferrance
of the mails.
Up to then, mails were carried by young lads
on horses between "posts", and one would expect
paid very poorly. They were rich pickings for
brigands awaiting behind any bush or tree in the country.
There were rich pickings to be had.

In 1788 William Lewin..alias William Clarke..alias william brown...alias william hope...alias william hutchinson....alias
william maude was convicted of robbing James Archer
the boy who carried the mail between Warrington and Northwich.

There was a hint of collusion between the boy and Lewin
but anyways, Lewin was convicted,
he was hanged on the 21st of April 1791
and his body was left in chains on the gibbet at Helsby Tor,
eight miles from Chester.

The Stamp Collector : January 1995 author JW Martin

According to the Canadian Postal Archives Database the Special Delivery Scott E3 was engraved by Edwin H. Gunn and printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited

http://data4.collectionscanada.ca/n...anet/020117/ a href= /go/link.asp?target=https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/020117030105 target= _blank rel= nofollow 020117030105 /a _e.html&r=1&f=G&SECT3=POST

Canada must have the best digital stamp archive in the world.
well done the organisers.

Hmm...Arcade = An arch supported by pillars.

Since you may have missed these; hope you'll forgive the duplication in posting.

Interesting,
the Alcazar vignette,
is seen almost through a Moorish arcade (no pillars)
as we saw on the Canadian stamp.
I like these engravings,
the camels well may be delivery of the mails.

That is exactly as the mails arrived in Alexandria
from Australia.

Not exactly a scan but the Swedish Postal Museum has an online catalogue you can search by using the Facit catalogue numbers.

http://www.postmuseum.posten.se/frimbas/adv9.asp

So here's there Gustavian Art set from 1972: