Collecting By Engraver

Wish you a Merry Christmas!!!

Angels and Madonna, paintings by Gregorio Sciltian (1900-1985), engraved by
Werner Pfeiler and issued for the Christmas by San Marino on December 15, 1982:

Bratislava, designed by Albín Brunovský, engraved by Bedrich Housa and issued on February 13, 1967 to publicize the International Tourism Year:

I continue with my project of scanning all stamps 1951-1970. Here are another four. The engravers of them are unknown to me:

Entrance and Eastern Gate of Angkor Thom Temple, Angkor, 1954:


First anniversary of the coronation of King Suramarit and Queen Kossamak, 1956:


Air Mail Stamp: Garuda, 1957:

Art stamps, issued by the Czech Republic on November 14, 2018:

Diego Felípez de Guzmán, 1st Marquess of Leganés (1580–1655), a Spanish politician and army commander, engraving by Paulus Pontius (1603-1658), after Anthony Van Dyk, designed and engraved by Martin Srb:

Birds on Stage, by Vladimír Komarek (1928-2002), designed and engraved by Milos Ondracek:

Biblical figures from the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo (1475 - 1564), a set of 19 definitive stamps issued by Italy on March 6, 1961. The four high values are engraved. Here they are:

The Ignudi, engraved by Eros Donnini:

Adam, engraved by Mario Colombati:

Eve, engraved by Vittorio Nicastro:

One of the stamps shows portrait of Michelangelo by the Italian painter Daniele da Volterra (1509 – 1566), engraved by Alceo Quieti:


The rest of the stamps in the set are not engraved:

I rarely posting engraved stamps of the British colonies, not because I don't like them, many of them are great works of art and beautifully engraved, but simply because I don't collect them. One exceptional is a collection of Gilbert and Ellice stamps I have since it was included in a lot of SEA stamps I bought in an auction. Here is one set from the collection, a set of twelve KGVI definitive stamps depicting landscapes of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, issued on January 14, 1939 for use in the colony.

Here are the first six of them:

-Great Frigate (Fregata magnificus)
- Pandanus Tree (Palm-like tree)
- Canoe on Reef
- House and Canoe
- Native House
- Atoll Shore

...and the rest six:

Ellice Islands Canoe
Coconut Trees
Phosphate Jetty
Royal Colony Ship "Nimanoa"
Gilbert Islands Canoe
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Coat of Arms

Ive recently read in September's American Philatelist, articles on 2 engravers - Pierre Gandon & Martin Mörck. That led me to stamp engravers.blogspot.com, https://stampengravers.blogspot.com...-pierre.html then the reference at the bottom of that - to here!

Anyhow, the articles gave me an idea to look for books on the 2 engravers & their works. So far I've struck out, but was wondering if anyone here would have any ideas where I might look? A brief googling and no luck. Thinking of doing a little collection of their works.

Tks for any tips.

Hi,

Pierre Gandon is one of my favorite engravers and I think among the best of them. I don't know about a book summarizes his work, but these 15 pages show most of his work and can give you idea what to look for:
https://www.lastdodo.com/en/areas/1...re-1899-1990

About Martin Mörck, he is still very active and has Facebook and Instagram accounts so I believe you can contact him directly.

These 9 pages show most of his works:
https://www.lastdodo.com/en/areas/2...-martin-1955

Very nice - thank you.

Stamp4Life,

While I posted many stamps designed or engraved by Gandon in this thread or in others (like the birds thread), I posted little from Martin Mörck. So here is a set engraved by Mörck, shows winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine and their contributions, designed by Urban Frank or Nils Peterson as indicated on the stamps, and issued by Sweden on November 29, 1984:

Georg von Békésy (1899-1972), Hungary, Noble Prize in 1961 for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the inner ear.

Stamp shows a diagram of the inner ear:


Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997), Australia, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998), UK, and Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012), UK, Noble Prize in 1961 for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition of the nerve cell membrane causing electric transmission.

Stamp shows nerve cell and arrows representing influx of Na+ and H+ ions through ionic channels:


Sir Bernard Katz (1911-2003), UK, Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), USA, and Ulf Svante von Euler (1905-1983), Sweden, Noble Prize in 1970 for their discoveries concerning the neurotransmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation:

Stamp shows (left) cross section of a nerve cell shows the nucleus and the mitochondria and (right) activation of muscle cell by neurotransmitters released by nerve cell to the nerve-muscle junction (synapse):


Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913-1994), USA, Noble Prize in 1981 for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres.

Stamp shows the brain hemispheres and their activities:


David Hunter Hubel (1926-2013), Canada, and Torsten Nils Wiesel (1924- ), Sweden, Noble Prize in 1981 for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.

Stamp shows cross section of the eye on the background of optic nerves:


Issued as a mini-sheet in a booklet:

A follow up... I found the below book online....



https://www.nordfrim.com/book-by-mo...n-nordstroem

Stamps4Life

Glad for you and sure will be interesting reading. I will bring more of Mörck in the future. Meanwhile, enjoy this attractive set of stamps, designed by designed by Max Svabinsky, engraved by Jindra Schmidt and issued by Czechoslovakia on March 23, 1959 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights:

I don't collect sport and Olympic stamps and I don't remember I ever posted sport stamps in this thread, but I find many of the engraved sport stamps very attractive and well designed and engraved and I keep few sets in my album.

One of the countries issued attractive sport stamps is Monaco. Here is a set issued on February 23, 1952 to publicize the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. The stamps were designed by Bernard Minne. Several French engravers were involved in engraving this set as indicated:

Engraved by René Cottet:

Engraved by Gabriel-Antoine Barlangue:

Engraved by Raoul Serres:

Engraved by Charles-Paul Dufresne:

Engraved by Pierre Gandon:

Engraved by Raoul Serres:

Two paintings by the French painter Alexandre Debelle (1805 – 1897), designed and engraved by Georges Bétemps and issued by France on June 18, 1988 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution:

The Day of the Tiles (French: Journée des Tuiles) was an event that took place in the French town of Grenoble on 7 June in 1788. It was one of the first disturbances which preceded the French Revolution, and is credited by a few historians as its start:


The Assembly of Vizille, 1788, (French: Assemblée de Vizille) or Estates General of Dauphiné (Réunion des états généraux du Dauphiné) was the result of a meeting of various representatives in Grenoble. Its purpose was to discuss the events of The Day of the Tiles, one of the first revolts preceding the French Revolution:


Issued as a se-tenant with middle tab: