Collecting By Engraver

Yes, he is the same engraver.
Velamazán is his first surname (father's surname) and Pérez is his second surname (mother's surname).

This stamp with Don Quixote (Stamp Day 1947) was engraved by Carlos Velamazán Pérez too:



In this case with secret mark "V":

And do you know if he's related to Eduardo Velamazán Perez who also engraved two values of the navy set?
Love the secret mark, thanks for showing it!

Yes, he is his brother.

Eduardo Velamazán Pérez (1914-1999)
He joined FNMT in 1947 and retired in 1982

Their full names were...

Eustaquio Carlos Velamazán Pérez
Cipriano Eduardo Velamazán Pérez

Both brothers used their middle names as if it was the first name.
I guess they considered them more "cool".
Eustaquio and Cipriano are very outdated names, almost ridiculous.

The cinderellas shown on the previous page are a genteel lot mostly but one stands out as being different.



I didn't know the story behind this one so I went looking. I only needed to get as far as Wikipedia to find what I wanted.

The stamp is based on an earlier engraving and is very similar.



Victor Hugo was a Romantic and his play was seen as attacking the opposing Classicists. Both sides turned up in force for the premiere and in the interval, the fight broke out.

Sort of like an early version of Mods and Rockers when I was a kid. No doubt there is a modern equivalent. Read the whole story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernani_(drama)

jjarmstrong47 - Those French cinderellas are gorgeous!

Ecuador - 1939

Ecuadorean victories at the First Bolivarian Games, held in Colombia in 1938.
Colonel Miguel Angel Ayala Carrión and his horse "Coralito".
He won Gold Medal in Equestrian Jumping

Printed by American Bank Note Co.

Vignette engraved by Joseph Keller (1903-1987)



(Die proof)

Thanks jorgesurcl, you've made my day. That is the first Ecuador stamp I've been able to attribute to an engraver.

Ecuador engraved stamps are beautiful but finding out any details has proved almost impossible.

This is probably somewhere earlier in the thread, but my fingers got too tired clicking through all of these wonderful items. Here is French Polynesia, Scott C220 (SG 489), designed and engraved by P. Forget. The entire Souvenir sheet is just beautiful.

Colombia - 1935

Gold Mining

Printed by American Bank Note Co.

Vignette engraved by Sydney F. Smith (1901-1942)



"Electric Generation"

American Bank Note Co.
Designed by Alonzo Earl Foringer
Used in Stock Certif., Registered Bonds, Coupon Bonds, etc.

Engraved by Sydney F. Smith in 1931




President Woodrow Wilson
American Bank Note Co.

Engraved by Sydney F. Smith in 1933

Delnoce family

Luigi (Lewis) Delnoce (1822-1890)

Peru - 1866-67
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignettes engraved by Luigi Delnoce




Stars and Stripes - Engraved by Luigi Delnoce - (Bureau of Engraving and Printing-1875)




Angelo Delnoce - (1850 - ?)

Treasury Building in Washington D.C.
Engraved by Angelo Delnoce (American Bank Note Co. 1888)



The Philatelic Truck Souvenir Sheet - 1939
Printed by BEP.
Vignette : earlier engraving of the White House engraved in 1889 by Angelo Delnoce.
Frame and lettering engraved by William B. Wells (1874-1942)




Louis. A. O. Delnoce Jr. - (1872-1943)
(Louis Amadeo Ostenello Delnoce Jr.)

Canada - 1938 - Vancouver Harbour
Printed by Canadian Bank Note Co. Ltd.
Vignette engraved by Louis Delnoce Jr.
Frame/Ornaments engraved by Carroll S. Mabie - (1895-1944)
Lettering engraved by John S. Edmondson - (1901 - ?)

Jorgesurcl, you have made my day once again. I have had that sheet from the "Philatelic Truck" for some time and not been able to find the engravers. I think it is amazing that they used a forty year old engraving for the vignette though perhaps that was cheaper than having a new one done.

The truck was the idea of President Roosevelt, himself a philatelist, and it toured America as part of a travelling philatelic exhibition. Amazingly, the sheets were printed at each town they visited but I have never seen any way of identifying which town was the source of individual sheets. The engraving is superb and shows what can be achieved when quality is more important than price.

jjarmstrong47 - The engraver was William F. Ford

Thanks jorgesurcl. Those index cards are a great resource.

It was a fairly sombre night at my stamp club last night due to us all having attended the funeral of our secretary/treasurer the day before who had died suddenly.

Nevertheless, by the end of the night I'd managed to find a few gems on the exchange sheets, some of which will have been shown before but all are worth another airing. I haven't researched them all yet so details will be scanty but here they are.

The first is one I have been seeking for some time and is the Monaco stamp depicting the "three graces". I was surprised at how large a stamp it is, at least four times the size of the similar United States stamp, but for me, this was the prize of the night.


The Three Graces engraved by Pierre Albuisson.

Some fine stamps from Greenland, the first by Arne Kuhlmann.



more to come...

More club finds.

The other Greenlanders are from Martin Morck.

And finally..

A beauty from Finland



A fine portrait from Iceland



One from Malta that was certainly worth the ten cents it cost me.



And finally, this beauty from Hungary designed and engraved by Gyorgy Lengyel