Collecting By Engraver

Arjan,

it is a pity that was one of the last engraved stamps for the Nethelrands. Most of the later so-called engraved stamps were just etched and you can see the fine cross-screen in many of them. At the very end, Sem Hartz did one [Erasmus, 1969] and Gerrit Noordzij made a mess out of the Union of Utrecht [1979]. The only hope we had was Inge Madlé, but where is she now???

groetjes, Rein

Inge appears to be doing well and has her own business, Madle Design, having left Enschede many moons ago. Go to http://www.madle-design.nl to see many of her designs and engravings. GLENN

Galeoptix - Rein, do you happen to know the name(s) of the designer(s) and the other possible engravers (with years of birth and death if possible) of the above 1951 'Cultural and Social Relief Funds' set posted by AKPhilately? Thanks.

Ah yes, that beautiful Erasmus stamp. Here it is:



And here is Noordzij's Treaty of Utrecht stamp.



I hadn't heard about Noordzij making a mess of this. What's the story behind it, Rein?

florian,
Willem Zion van Dijk (1915-1994) also engraved the 10c+5c value of the above 1951 Dutch castles set.



With regard to the designers of the set: official sources quote the Aesthetic Department of the Dutch Post as designer. The thing is that the castles were photographed by E. P. M. van Praag, Secretary of that department. Then, exhibition architect Mr Andries Frederiks made drawings based on those photographs. The idea was that the three engravers had to base their engravings on those drawings, but in the end the engravers used both drawings and original photographs and other reference material as well. So, finally, the Head of the Aesthetic Department, W. F. Gouwe, decided that it was therefore not right to credit the actual photographer and drawing artist, and so he gave the design credits to the whole department.

I'll upload more pics in the coming days.

AKPhilately - Adrian, thank you for the info as well as the images. I'll be looking forward to some more of yours.

Here is the third and final value of the 1951 Dutch set engraved by Van Dijk, the 2c+2c.



I know I should really try and getter better centred copies, but until then, this'll have to do, I'm afraid!

Moving on to the second engraver of the 1951 Dutch set: Here we have the 20c+5c which was engraved by Cornelis Arend Mechelse (1898-1969). It was his only contribution to this particular set.



Also, I've just uploaded two short biographies on my engravers site. The first one is on Lyell Dolan who was responsible for many of the portraits on the Famous Australians series.



The second is that of Martin Cinovsky. You can read all about the significance of this souvenir sheet.



Googling a bit should get you there in no time.

Okay, here is the final stamp from the Dutch 1951 Castles set. This stamp is engraved by Johannes Staphorst.

AKPhilately - Thanks very much, Adrian, for all the images of the finely engraved stamps, the commemorative sheet as well as the information on their engravers. Much appreciated.

Always a pleasure!
Here is my beauty of the day: Newfoundland, the 1932 definitive set. The 3c, portraying Queen Mary, was engraved by Alfred J. Downey.

I've actually started a new thread on this question, but seeing that it very much concerns 'collecting by engraver' I thought I'd pose it here as well:

Spink in Britain will soon have an auction which includes loads of die proofs from Bradbury Wilkinson.



I now how hard it can be to attribute these to specific engravers but I was just wondering whether the BW archives have ever been researched and whether any information on this is available at all. Most of the die proofs have die numbers which may be of help.

I've been trying to find the engraver for this common but rather beautiful Uruguay stamp, La Doma (The taming). Does anyone have information on this. Unfortunately after my last interstate move I could not find my South and Central American Catalogues.
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Can't help you with that one, jjarmstrong47, I checked both Stanley Gibbons and Michel and neither give any information about the engraver, I'm afraid.

jjarmstrong47 - Welcome to SCF!

Your Uruguay stamp depicting a gaucho breaking a horse was engraved and printed by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd. Unfortunately, since I have not yet discovered a comprehensive listing providing the engravers' names for each stamp produced by this London firm, I am unable to positively identify for you the individual(s) who engraved your stamp. And so the search for information continues...

- nethryk