Collecting By Engraver

lithograving - I checked and Stanley Gibbons confirms Michel that your rather strange-looking Liechtenstein stamps were indeed recess engraved by a print shop that I had never heard of before: Paulussen & Co., Vienna. I also found a related article about the Vaduz Castle issue on pp. 245-46 of the September 1983 number of "Tell," published by the American Helvetia Society: http://www.swiss-stamps.us/Tell/T099.pdf

- nethryk

PS Glad you enjoyed my background stories about the Brooks sculpture stamps. I am a fan of sculpture, and in most every medium.

PPS Outstanding images of the Zola and Beaumarchais stamps!

@ Sperati - I ditto lithograving, and if you think it might help, I would be happy to walk you through the process.

Thanks nethryk. Strange there is no mention of an engraver
either in Michel nor in that interesting article you found.

I searched online the name Professor L. Kasimir which Michel
states was the designer and found that LUIGI KASIMIR (Austrian, 1881-1962) was a painter, etcher, lithographer and
copper engraver.

http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/AE...rich_english

Therefore it's quite probable that he was the engraver
of that set.

Here are images of several more USA stamps from my collection which demonstrate the engraving skills of Charles A. Brooks.

- nethryk

Gardening Horticulture: "Bountiful Earth," an allegorical figure, designed by American artist Denver Laredo Gillen (1914-1975), and issued on March 15, 1958, Scott No. 1100. (Lettering: J.S. Edmondson)


Forest Conservation, designed by U.S. Forest Service employee Rudolph "Rudy" Andreas Michael Wendelin (1910–2000), and issued on October 27, 1958, Scott No. 1122. (Lettering: G.L. Huber)


Arctic Exploration: North Pole, dog sled, and USS Nautilus (SSN 571), designed by George Eurengy Samerjean (1915-2005), and issued on April 6, 1959, Scott No. 1128. (Lettering: Edmondson)


American Music, designed by American graphic designer Bradbury Thompson (1911–1995) and issued on October 15, 1964, Scott No. 1252. (Lettering: Kenneth C. Wiram)


Robert Fulton (1765-1815), American engineer and inventor, designed by John Maass after a bust by French neoclassical sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), and issued on August 19, 1965, Scott No. 1270. (Lettering: G.A. Payne)

lithograving - You're welcome! Yes, I suppose that it could have been Kasimir himself. But if I were the engraver of that particular Liechtenstein set, I'm not sure I would want to advertise the fact! ;) - nethryk

Lithograving - Thank you for your encouragement!

Nethryk - Any help you could offer would be very much appreciated. The upload monitor keeps telling me that there is something wrong with what I am trying to upload - seemingly both as to size and format.

Perhaps the real problem is that I am still a computer semi-literate.
Yes - there are STILL some of us out there!

Hi Sperati,
If you have the time and inclination these two threads may be of some help for you.
I'd love to see some more images too.

https://goscf.com/t/11977

https://goscf.com/t/10675

Sperati - I use and recommend Photobucket too. If you re-size your images there to 800x600 before pasting in the IMG links, you should have no problem uploading them here or on any other stamp collector website. - nethryk

I think I've done it!

Many thanks to all of you who offered advice and/or encouragement. As it happened, I cam to a successful conclusion by a somewhat different route - but successful nevertheless.
Now, all I have to do is replicate the procedure(s) - actually quite protracted.
Thanks again.

I think I've done it again - stumblingly!

Sperati, you're coming right along, doing great.

One thing though, you've got to add a bit of colour

I know the last stamp is engraved black but the other two I know
have a coloured border.

Perhaps your setting is Grey Scale instead of 48 - bit - Color ?

French Zone of post WWII occupied Germany

The following three were the high values of a definitive set issued in 1945/46
Portrayed are three giants of German literature.

Designed & engraved by Achilles Ouvré

Printed by State Printer, Paris



Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 - 1832)




Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)




Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

lithograving - Très bon! Yet another maître dessinateur et graveur de timbres françaises: Achille Ouvré (1872-1951). Here are images of several more stamps designed and engraved by Ouvré, and issued by France.

- nethryk

Statue of Liberty (à la française), semi-postal issued on February 25, 1936, Scott No. B45, Y&T No. 309.


Two stamps from a set of semi-postals issued on November 16, 1936, to raise funds for unemployed French intellectuals (if you can believe it!):

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French Romantic composer, Scott No. B50, Y&T No. 331.


Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France, Scott No. B51, Y&T No. 332.


Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), French artist and Post-Impressionist painter, after a self-portrait, issued on March 15, 1939, Scott No. 370, Y&T No. 421.


Porte Chaussée, Verdun, issued on June 23, 1939, Scott No. 392, Y&T No. 445.


Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881), French political activist, semi-postal issued on April 5, 1948, Scott No. B229, Y&T No. 800.

Thanks nethryk, I knew you would come through with
some more info & stamps from Achille Ouvré.


Here is an East German set issued in 1970
commemorating Lenin's 100th Birthday.

Combination print : engraved & photogravure.

Designed by Gerhard Stauf who also engraved the Souvenir Sheet.
The 20 Pf was engraved by Gerhard Faulwasser and the rest
by Margot Sachs - Bitzer.

Printed by the Wertpapierdruckerei Leipzig.

German Democratic Republic (DDR)

Scott 1188 - 1193

To give West Germany equal time here is a set issued
in 1970 for the upcoming (1972) Olympics in Munich.
It portrays various historic buildings in the city.

It was designed by a Herr Kern but I don't have the engraver.

Germany

Scott B459 - B462