Collecting By Engraver

jjarmstrong....Many thanks for the extra details on the Japanese engraved stamps...much appreciated.

Ahem, I refer the right honourable gentlemen to my answer given before, just below the original post.
:-)

Some recent acquistions....

Cameroun-1942....Native Children's Welfare
Engraver:Charles Mazelin

Scott CB3-According to Scott the stamp was issued by the Vichy Govt.
in France, but was not placed on sale in Cameroun.



Cameroun-1942
Design:Jules Douy
Engraver: Jules Piel

Scott??



Algeria-1954-Citrus Fruit Congress

Scott 253
Designer: Benjamin Sarraillon
Engraver: Jean Pheulpin

"Ahem, I refer the right honourable gentlemen to my answer given before, just below the original post."

I admit it! I hadn't made the connection. So that source just adds to the mystery yet if that is put out by the postal museum, you would think they would know.

On another note, I doubt if I would have been a fan of the Vichy government if I'd been alive back then but they put out some great stamps. It seems a shame that beauty from Cameroun was never used. Mazelin was an engraver that you don't really hear people calling their favourite but he engraved some wonderful stamps.

More from Cameroun...
Cameroun-1954...Yes, we have bananas
Engraver:Robert Cami
Scott 324



Cameroun-1946-Tikar Women
Engraver:Gabriel Barlangue
Scott 307



Cameroun-1946-Bowman
Engraver:Albert Decaris
Scott 313

"Mazelin was an engraver that you don't really hear people calling their favourite but he engraved some wonderful stamps."

Hear, hear, and his stamp-related work (loads of cinderella labels) is fascinating too. Truly the dark horse among French engravers.

I absolutely love that Algerian Pheulpin stamp, though, that's my favourite of this lot and so is he.

More Albert Decaris from the Ivory Coast-1970

Scott 291-Production of Matches


Scott 292-Textile Industry



Scott 293- Shipbuilding

graphis,thanks for showing those scans from the Master Decaris.

I tried with the white background but it just hasn't worked
for me so far.

When I see any of these IMPRIMERIE DES TIMBRES-POSTE - PARIS
printed stamps produced for the colonies and then ex-colonies
they are usually in 3 colours from the early sixties to seventies.

I always wonder how they decided what 3 colours to use.
Many times the combinations worked but sometimes the colours
clashed and/or were kinda garish.
Seems almost like the boss said " OK we've got 3 colours, lets use
them whether we need them or not"
At least that's my opinion.

Monaco-1966- Views of the Palace thru the centuries.
Scott 618-623

Engraver: Claude Durrens


Design:Raoul Serres
Engraver: Jules Piel



Engraver: Charles Mazelin


Design:Andre Spitz
Engraver: Jules Piel




Design:Raoul Serres
Engraver: A.Freres


Engraver: Charles Mazelin

lithograving...thanks for your comments...more Decaris to come!

On the Monaco ones the colour combinations really
works and the different engravers all produced very fine
detailed stamps compared to the coarser engravings
for the Ivory coast.

Ivory Coast-Abidjan Games 1961
Engraver: Albert Decaris

Scott 193-195

lithograving wrote:


There were usually loads of different colour proofs made, with various combinations trialled in various sheets. So it must have been a matter of the deciding person having very bad taste!



The scan doesn't make it clear but they are all different shades (of gooseberry green, as Royal Mail would probably call it).

graphis - Ivory Coast - Abidjan Games 1961: Just what admirable verve full of drama did Decaris capture the figures with! Great stamps!

The Swiss PTT produced a special presentation booklet for the 1932 Gotthard Railway issue which, besides both mint and used blocks of the stamps, included three die proofs of Karl Bickel's engravings. The booklets, of which only 800 were made, were handed out to high-ranked officials and guests of the jubilee festivities.