Collecting By Engraver

Sad news; Arne Kühlmann Hansen passes on in 2017; there are 2 others to report later. Ever dwindling numbers of engravers is sad.
cNA

The Final Journey. RIP Arne

Thank you canadian for letting us know about the passing of Arne Kühlmann.
Do you have his birth date by chance ?
He was an excellent engraver and in my opinion many of his Danish stamps were as good and some even better than the ones Slania engraved for Denmark.

Kühlmann's first stamp was Denmark Scott 552 Tivoli pantomime theater issued in 1974.



The Danish Post Ofice PFA Journal 1989 had an article about Arne Kühlmann and his latest engraving, the Danish Agricultural Museum

Scott 873

Great posting lithographing!

I am curious about the arcing line in the lower left quadrant of the test stamps. It seems to serve as a defacing or demonetizing mark. Is this done commonly in Denmark and other places?

Hi Bob

The coloured stamp images in the Danish PFC-Journalen
are all defaced with an arc, at least from the journal copies I have
which stretches from the late 1970s to early 1990s.




I have new issue announcements from Sweden and Norway where the
coloured images of stamps are also defaced via an arc but
not always in the lower left quadrant.

Canada Post also defaced (not consistently) the stamp images in their new issue pamphlets/announcements with either an arc or a stroke but now they don't bother with that anymore in the Details magazine.

Thanks lithographing. If my memory is correct, Scott publishing did somewhat similar defacing many years ago.

Costa Rica - 1934
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by Elie Timothée Loizeaux (1873-1956)



Belgian Congo - 1948
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Native head engraved by Elie Timothée Loizeaux

jorgesurcl

Where do you find the information on which engraver, engraved a particular stamp, such as the Costa Rica stamp you just posted above?

Bacchus

Bacchus

Mainly in the Index Copy Cards (ABNCo. files cards), signed proofs, and also in interviews published many years ago.

Panama - 1921
Cervantes - Monument
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by Edwin Gunn (1876-1940)
Frame engraved by Struve




Greece - 1922
500 dracma - P68
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by Edwin Gunn

Thanks jorgesurcl. I didn't have information on either of those stamps.

They're often also indicated in the catalogue, although Gibbons's approach is inconsistent - I suspect that it depends upon how easily the information can be obtained.

jorgesurcl

Thank you. Finding the engraver's name is often a challenge. I have both The Engraver's Line and The International Engraver's Line by Gene Hessler. While both are are of great help. The International Engraver's Line can not cover every International stamp. Mr. Hessler would still be writing the book.

I was hoping there was an internet accessible list of Engravers and their work for the ABN. I have searched but so far not found such a list.

Again Thank you

Bacchus

Colombia - 1941
Legend of "El Dorado"
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by Joseph Keller (1903-1987)



Brazil - 1954
2 Cruzeiros - P151
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Back : Military School of Rezende
Engraved by Joseph Keller

Yugoslavia - 1921
King Alexander
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by Robert Savage (1868-1943)



Greece - 1922
1000 dracma - P69
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by Robert Savage

Costa Rica - 1887
President Bernardo Soto Alfaro

Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Vignette engraved by G.F.C. Smillie (1854-1924)(George Frederick Cumming Smillie)



Bolivia - 1887
Banco Potosi - PS221
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Portrait of President Adolfo Ballivian engraved by G.F.C. Smillie




(Similar stamps were issued in 1889 printed by Waterlow in London with new dies)