Collecting By Engraver

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There was also a nice Japanese Occupation of the Philippines stamp from 1943.

Poland-1947-The French Connection.
(Most likely been posted before on SCF...but worth another look)

Design:Stefan Zechowski
Engraver:Gabriel-Antonie Barlangue
Scott 139



Design:René Cottet
Engraver:Stefan #379;echowski
Scott 140



Design: Mieczyslaw Watorski
Engraver:Charles-Paul Dufresne
Scott 141







Design:Stefan Zechowski
Engraver:Charles Mazelin
Scott 142

Another envelope held some nice Spanish stamps which I will show later but I also found this rather worn 1942 General Franco stamp.



I had thought that there were no engraved Franco stamps, though if I'd used Scott instead of Gibbons I would have known about this one. Gibbons simply says it was designed by Delhom.

Now Camilo Delhom Rodriguez was mainly known as an engraver, as far as I know but after discussing this with AKPhilately, we can't find any engraver listed for this stamp.

This means that no matter how strongly I am guessing that Delhom also engraved this stamp, without confirmation of some sort, it will have to go into the database as engraver: unknown.

A couple from Poland:

This stamp shows the coat of arms of Poland, the eagle, with inscription ZWYKLA was used for regular official mail.It was issued for the 10th anniversary of the people's republic (see the Roman X displayed below the Polish eagle).

(info source: http://www.stampspoland.nl/)

Issued 1954
Designer: W.Falkowski
Engraver: B.Brandt



Postage Due 1950
Designer:R.Kleczewski
Engraver:S.Lukaszewski

I love that Polish set. After WW2, Poland seems to have lost the means to print engraved stamps and for the first two years only issued photo stamps. This set had Polish designers but were engraved and printed in Paris. The great Polish engravers like Polak, Lukaszewski and Brandt didn't make it back on the scene until the 1949 issues. It makes you wonder what they did to survive for those years but they may have been busy producing banknotes. It would be great to read about how the different countries recovered their stamp production after so much infrastructure damage during the war.

Monaco...Tribute to Sir Rowland Hill

Issued 1979
Engraver: Eugene Lacaque
Scott 1193



Issued 1990
Engraver: Jacky Larriviere
Scott 1705

Stipple Engraving:

Posted by 'graphis' on 05/04/2016 (page 186); Monaco's tribute to to Sir Rowland Hill; Issued 1990; Engraver: Jacky Larriviere; Scott 1705;

Posted by 'lithograving' on 05/19/2011 (page 12); George Vanier, Governor-General; Issued 1967; Scott 474; Engraver: Yves Baril

Both are good examples of stipple engraving; to the background of Sir Rowland (page 186) and the face of Georges-Philéas Vanier (page 12); image culled and combined from both postings. Using stipple to engrave a portrait is more difficult than background.

If this type of posting is too technical for this forum, please tell me.
cNA

graphis and jjarmstrong47 thanks for all those
Chinese, Polish and etc engraved stamps, most haven't been
shown yet I believe.

The Polish State Printers in Warsaw [PWPW] were only back in business in late 1949 - provisional printings were made in Kraków [Drukarnia Narodowa] mainly. Everything about the first years after WWII was extensively described in a leaflet issued for the 75th anniversary of the PWPW! Of course in Polish only! I do have the leaflet so any specific question may be answered!

@canadian

Thanks for pointing out this stipple engraving
technique.
Reminds me of Pointillismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism.

On the other hand isn't engraving all about dots and dashes?

Look at these Austrian engraved stamps which I
posted sometime ago.








Just a bunch of dots & dashes lol

Karl Bickel would also use the various mosaics of his Paxmal monument as the subject of a series of private engravings, such as this 1923 copper engraving of 'Der Erwachender' (The Awakening).

Adrian: I have not seen the 1923 copper engraving of 'Der Erwachender' (The Awakening) by Karl before. What a master piece it is. The Awakening has a mystic connotation here, as I see it, with the sweeping lines; I remember Yves Baril admired Karl and his engravings. This is a beauty. Please email me a scan in higher resolution for me to get comments.
cNA

canadian: consider it done!
Yes, it's quite a beauty, isn't it?! A little googling on the paxmal symbolism shows that you're not far off with the mystic connotations.
Yves Baril admiring Bickel's work! Takes one to know one,I suppose.

During his long career, Karl Bickel would only engrave the odd Swiss commemorative stanmp, such as this one from 1950, part of the National Fête issue.

It was Karl Bickel's engravings for the 1932 Swiss commemorative set marking the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the St Gotthard Railway which cemented his career as a portrait engraver.