Collecting By Engraver

More...Chile 1910.
Printed by American Bank Note Co.

20cts. - Resignation of Gral. O'Higgins
Vignette engraved by Harry P. Dawson
Frame & lettering engraved by George H. Seymour
Modification of face value : engraved by Elmer Farrington




25cts. - First National Congress
Vignette engraved by Edwin Gunn (1876-1940)
Frame & lettering engraved by George H. Seymour

Beautiful stamps, jorgesurcl. Thanks for adding them...

Agreed! It is a longer set than I realised.

It's a set of 15 stamps!
A few more...

3cts. - Battle of El Roble
Vignette engraved by Robert Savage (1868-1943)
Frame & lettering engraved by George H. Seymour




$2 - Gral. Manuel Blanco E.
Vignette engraved by Charles Schlecht (1843-1932)
Frame & lettering engraved by George H. Seymour

...Last one and end of this series...

2cts. - Battle of Chacabuco
Vignette engraved by Charles Skinner (1841-1932)
Frame & lettering engraved by George H. Seymour

These Belgian Railway parcel stamps were released from 1950-52 but Gibbons does not list an engraver. Both Leon Janssen and Jean De Bast were the only ones working at that time as far as I can see. Does anyone have details of which (or who)engraved these?

Others from 1951 are listed as Institut de Gravure. Was this a training institution and could these have been the work of students? The quality is certainly not up to De Bast or Janssen normal standards.

All these railways parcel stamps may exist in two perforations: 24 or 25 teeth at the top/bottom! The 17F has 24, the two other 25!

I've been sorting through the "one day" boxes and I came across this rather nice cover. I can't remember buying it but I think it was with a lot of covers I got at a club auction. The stamps are rather nice but I don't have any details on these. Perhaps someone else can help.

Jorgesurcl, those were absolutely stunning stamps you showed, thanks for that! Looking forward to reading your article on the ABNC engravers when it comes online. Do let us know!

jjarmstrong47; the Belgian catalogue OBP states these are printed in photogravure, so that might explain the lack of engraver's info and quality of design.

jjarmstrong47: these are all TransjordAn stamps, not Oman stamps! The Emir Abdullah stamp is printed either by Perkins Bacon (perf 14, issued in 1930-39) or De La Rue (perf 12, issued in 1943-46), in recess, no engraver known (by me anyway). The other stamps are from the 1947 Obligatory Tax series, printed in recess by De La Rue, again no engraver known by me.

By the way (sorry, me again), had you ever noticed there were two types of the Marianne de Lamouche stamps?



You can read about those in my latest blog entry, which you'll find by googling a bit for stampengravers....

jjarmstrong47 / Galeoptix / AKPhilately: I was unable to believe my eyes when I consulted my old copy of the LIPSIA Briefmarken Katalog Europa 1954/55 and read that the 1950-52 Belgian Railway parcel stamps were printed by photogravure ("Rastertiefdruck").

I considered this info an obvious mistake, not worth bringing it up, especially because Rein, commenting on their perforations only, had nothing to say in this respect after what he had explained in Difference between "Intaglio" & "Photogravure" Printings on the Stamp Production Process Forum where this discussion rightly belongs.

Adrian, thank you for mentioning what you found in the Belgian catalogue OBP.

Rein, would you please comment? Mistakes or not?

Hello Florian. Gibbons catalogue definitely lists them as recess printed and looking at them, the ink is certainly raised so I think Gibbons are right. I still don't think they were De Bast or Janssens though.

Re the Belgian stamps: I just remembered I have a Michel catalogue for Belgium and they too state the stamps are recess-printed. No info on engraver(s) though. Weird!

Also: Forgot to say that the above Marianne de Lamouche (as so many other Mariannes) was engraved by Claude Jumelet.

And I think it's high time for another Gem of the Day:



France, 1966, Battle of Hastings issue, engraved by Claude Haley.