Collecting By Engraver

Just came back from Orapex...a large national stamp show held in Ottawa, Canada with a nice haul of engraved stamps...will post as I sort.
Here are a few non-postal issues...charity and cinderellas.
Any info to add..most welcome.


Federation of French Philatelics
Engraver:Pierre Munier


A religious themed cinderella
Engraver: Decaris???


Charity Stamp for the Victims of War
Engraver:Henry Cheffer


Charity Stamp for the Victims of War
Engraver:Raoul Serres


American Olympic Committee-1940
Engraved source: American Bank Note

Sweden 1987...part of a series honoring Swedes in the service of mankind.
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He is widely celebrated for saving tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust.

Engraver:Martin Morck

Scott 1643

Just added a few Hungarian engraved stamps to my collection
Issued in 1952
Scott 1019-1024
Designer and Engravers: Zoltan Nagy and Mihaly Fule

Thanks, graphis, for showing those! Some seriously beautiful Hungarian stamps and I love the French ones! Never seen these before so my want list has just grown a bit (yet again)...

Monaco-1995-Winner of the 4th World Cup of Stamps.
This is a large stamp...3X4 inches approx.(10.1 X 7.6 cm)
Scott 1986a
Engraver:Pierre Albbuison after a painting by Sandro Botticelli

Monaco-1947...Part of Monaco's participation in the Centenary Intl.
Philatelic Exhibition, New York City in May of '47.
Stamps feature images of NYC Liberty and Skyline etc...Prince Louis II and Fortitication & Harbor of Monaco.


Designers/Engravers: Gandon,Piel,De Laszlo,Dufresne and Mazelin.

Scott C17-203-C19



The last stamp may look familiar...ca 1932
Scott 121

Fountains of Italy...issued in the 1970's
Photogravure and engraved: Eros Donnini















Probably the most famous in Rome...thanks to Anita Ekberg in Fellini's film classic from 1960 "La Dolce Vita"

graphis, you sure got some good stuff at Orapex,
lots of variety. Must have been a great show.
Congrats.

I like those Hungarian stamps and your sharp scans
show every detail.

Thanks for showing them as well as the others.

I have been looking at Polish stamps engraved by Edward Konecki and this one has a question mark. My catalogue tells me that it was designed by T (Tadeusz) Michaluk and he is the only Michaluk that I can find who designed stamps for Poland. Why then is he named on the stamp as Z. Michaluk? Was there another Michaluk who designed at the time? I'm hoping someone with a better reference for Poland than my Gibbons can shed some light on this.


Poland: 20th anniversary of Liberation of Warsaw. SG 1548, Scott 1298

The Polish Government in exile stamps shown above are so good, I went looking and found some of them. They remind me of the type of graphic that was found in boy's comics in the 1950s. The two shown by graphis are from a set designed by Arthur Horowicz who did indeed do book illustrations as well as painting.

Unfortunately, the saboteurs engraver is not listed but the underground press stamp was engraved by A. B. Hill.

Edit: Gibbons lists Robert Godbehear as having engraved a 12g stamp in this set. There is no 12g in this set and the only other stamp not credited is the 1z saboteur stamp. I read this to mean that this stamp was probably engraved by Godbehear.

On page 182 I mentioned Karl Bickel's Paxmal philosophy and how it shone through in his stamp engravings. But Bickel would go further: his contribution to the 1945 Peace set included not only direct references to his own peace monument (see the 3fr value) but actually depicted scenes taken from it.



The man and woman, seen on the 10fr value, form the centre piece of the monument, representing an elderly couple looking back with fulfilment and inner peace on their past achievements.



The lady's hands, resting peacefully in her lap, are shown on the 5fr value.

jjarmstrong47...thanks for the extra info on the Poland In Exile stamps...being of Polish descent I was quite interested in those issues.
There was an interesting article on those stamps in Stamp Magazine awhile back..if you'd like a photocopy of the article just email me
and i'd be glad to pop it in the mail to you.

Strider asked on 04/24/2016:
........ I think. But does anyone know of any stamps he may have engraved earlier in his career? He was originally Mexican, worked as an engraver of Mexican banknotes for many years before he moved to Canada in 1995 or so. Are there any stamps from the pre Canada period??

I have asked Jorge Peral (pronounced Hôrhay Perâl) about his stamp work other than for Canada; his reply is, save all the Canadian and the France/Canada joint issue, he did not design or engrave any postage stamps for Mexico or any other country. He did many portraits for the bank notes of Mexico, Canada and the latest award winning New Zealand notes of $5, $10 and $20. Disappointing isn't it? Had he done some stamps, we would have nice additions to our collections!
cNA

AKPhilately...thanks for posting those PAX stamps...simple yet exquisite in design.

I think Christmas has come early, or maybe it is because I'm in Australia where the seasons are reversed to the Northern Hemisphere.

Last night at our stamp club auction someone had put in an old wooden wine box full of junk. It looked like it had been in someone's shed for years and indeed most of the letters in it were from 1960. It had a couple of Polish covers that I thought were interesting. The reserve was three dollars but most of the members thought the box was worth more than the contents. It cost me the grand sum of seven dollars. Indeed, the only other member who bid only wanted the box, which I didn't really want so I sold it to him for a dollar and reduced my outlay even further.

I've been happily sorting through it tonight for several hours and it really is like Christmas, there have been so many surprises. I am trying to find the complete set of German famous women, there are about thirty seven, and in thrown in with the box was a small plastic tub of mostly engraved stamps including some of these. One of them is (was) on my watch list on ebay at the moment and with postage would have cost me six-fifty if nobody else bids on it.

The nicest surprise was an envelope of chinese stamps including some very fine engraved ones and that is what I thought I'd share. I know little about China but I do know quality engraving when I see it. I doubt if they are valuable in a monetary sense but as works of art they are priceless so here are a few of them to share.