Collecting By Engraver

Here is the second part of the 1931-2 Belgian Congo;

- Musicians of Lake Leopold II (Today, lake Mai-Ndombe)
- Batetelas drummers
- Mangbetu Woman
- African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) in Elephant Domestication Center, Congo
- Mangbetu Chief - engraved by Pierre Munier

Here is the third and last part of the 1931-2 Belgian Congo:

- Village of Mondimbi
- Okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
- Canoes at Stanleyville
- Woman Preparing Cassava - engraved by Pierre Munier
- Baluba Chief
- Young woman of Irumu - engraved by Pierre Munier

Oh my goodness. Its been a while folks! Its incredible to come back and see this thread still going!
I am still collecting and hoarding and sorting and poring over lovely stamps!
Kids and stuff got in the way a lot!
Child number 1 has just turned 17 and has her own collection going, we share a love of beautiful engraving and her personal favourite country to collect at the moment is Czechoslovakia.

Art Treasures in Austria, designed by Adalbert Pilch and issued by Austria on March 22, 1971:

Bowl with lid, Florence 1580, engraved by Kurt Leitgeb:

Joseph I (1678 – 1711), Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711, Statue by Matthias Steinle, 1693, engraved by Werner Pfeiler:

The Cellini Salt Cellar (Saliera cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571). It was completed in 1543 for Francis I of France. The Cellini Salt Cellar shows god Neptune (Poseidon) representing the Sea and Tellus representing the Earth. A small vessel for salt and a temple-shaped box for pepper are placed near Neptune and Tellus figures, respectively, engraved by Alfred Nefe:

During years 1986-2000, Poland issued a very long series of engraved stamps, designed by Stefan Malecki (1924-2012), shows rulers of Poland based on famous paintings. The series contains 44 stamps issued in 15 different sets of 2-4 stamps each.

Here are 5 of them:

Henryk Brodaty (c. 1165/70 – 1238), engraved by Tomasz Ziotkowski:
Henryk Brodaty (Henry the Bearded), Duke of Silesia at Wroclaw from 1201, Duke of Krakow and High Duke of all Poland – internally divided – from 1232 until his death.

Leszek Czarny (1241 - 1288), engraved by Tomasz Zlotkowski:
Leszek Czarny (Leszek II the Black), a Polish prince of the House of Piast, Duke of Sieradz since 1261, Duke of Leczyca since 1267, Duke of Inowroclaw in the years 1273-1278, Duke of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland from 1279 until his death.

Przemysl II (1257 - 1296), engraved by Wanda Zajdel:
Przemysl II, Duke of Poznan from 1257–1279, of Greater Poland from 1279–1296, of Krakow from 1290–1291, and Gdansk Pomerania (Pomerelia) from 1294–1296, and then King of Poland from 1295 until his death.

Jadwiga (1373 or 1374 – 1399), engraved by Wanda Zajdel:
Jadwiga, also known as Hedwig, was the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, reigning from 16 October 1384 until her death.

Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk (1427 – 1492), engraved by Przemyslaw Krajewski:
Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk (Casimir IV Andrew Jagiellon) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447, until his death.

Five more stamps from the series of Polish rulers:

Konrad I Mazowiecki (ca. 1187/88 - 1247), engraved by Jan Maciej Kopecki:
Konrad I Mazowiecki (Konrad I of Masovia), from the Polish Piast dynasty, the sixth Duke of Masovia and Kuyavia from 1194 until his death as well as High Duke of Poland from 1229 to 1232 and again from 1241 to 1243.

Wladysiaw I Lokietek (1260/1 – 1333), engraved by Jan Maciej Kopecki:
Wladyslaw I Lokietek (Ladislaus the Short), King of Poland from 1320 to 1333, and duke of several of the provinces and principalities in the preceding years.

Ludwik Wegierski (1326 – 1382), engraved by Wanda Zajdel:
Ludwik Wegierski (Louis I, also Louis the Great or Louis the Hungarian), King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370.

Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk (1424 – 1444), engraved by Przemyslaw Krajewski:
Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk (Wladyslaw of Varna), was King of Poland and the Supreme Duke (Supremus Dux) of Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1434 and King of Hungary and Croatia from 1440 until his death at the Battle of Varna.

Anna Jagiellonka (1523 -1596), engraved by Przemyslaw Krajewski:
Anna Jagiellonka (Anna Jagiellon) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587.

2005 The 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), designed by Mette & Eric Mourier, engraved by Lars Sjooblom and issued by Denmark on March 2, 2005. Design based on portrait of Andersen in 1869.

The 250th birth anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), designed and engraved by Pierre Albuisson and issued by Monaco on June 17, 2006:

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 – 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. Here is a stamp designed and engraved by Gabriel Antoine Barlangue and issued by France on November 14, 1949:

"The Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet" is an encyclopedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804, initially by the Comte de Buffon. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time, including what would now be called material science, physics, chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals.

Illustrations from Buffon's Natural History, designed by Roger Druet, engraved by Claude Haley and issued by France on June 18, 1988. Illustrations show Eurasian otter, Red deer, Red fox and European badger.

The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"), known in English as the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saints are buried there. Many follow its routes as a form of spiritual path or retreat for their spiritual growth

During year 1971 Spain issued a set of 21 stamps in three parts shows different sites from the Camino de Santiago from all parts of Europe, especially Spain. Here is the first set issued on January 4, 1971:

Map of the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James). The description on the stamp reads "Rutas Jacobeas", the Hebrew name of St. James: Jacob Ben Zebedee:

Statue of Bridget of Sweden in Vadstena Abbey. Work by sculptor Johannes Junge in 1425:
Bridget of Sweden (c. 1303 – 1373) or Saint Birgitta, a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years.

Statue of St. James, Cathedral of Pistoia, Italy:

St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, county of Pembrokeshire, near the most westerly point of Wales, GB:

Casket of Karl the Great, Aachen Cathedral, Germany:

St. Jacques (the French name of St. James), France:

Gutenberg Castle is an intact castle in the town of Balzers, Liechtenstein, in the centre of the municipality of Balzers, the southern-most municipality in the country. Gutenberg is one of the five castles of the principality and one of two that have survived intact until the present day.

Gutenberg Castle, designed by Otto Zeiller, combined photogravure and engraved by Wolfgang Seidel and issued by Liechtenstein on September 7, 1981:

Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, designed and engraved by Claude Durrens and issued by Niger on November 23, 1972:

- The Fox and the Crow:
- The Lion and the Rat:
- The Monkey and the Leopard:

European Gothic Cathedrals, designed by Ercole Arseni and issued by San Marino on September 21, 1967.

- Notre Dame Cathedral in Amiens, France, engraved by Tullio Mele
- Cathedral of Siena, Italy, engraved by Silvestro Vana
- Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, engraved by Mario Colombati
- Cathedral of Salisbury, UK, engraved by Vittorio Nicastro
- Cathedral of Cologne, Germany, engraved by Eros Donnini

Frescoes, by the Italian artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348) in the Town Hall of Siena. The frescoes show female allegorical figures from the 14th century, issued by San Marino on February 13, 1969:

- "Peace", engraved by Alceo Quieti
- "Justice", engraved by Eros Donnini
- "Temperance", engraved by Alceo Quieti
- Town Hall of Siena, engraved by R. Di Giuseppe

The Devine Comedy - Dante Alighieri


The 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, scenes from the Devine Comedy, designed by Pierrette Lambert and issued by Monaco on February 1, 1965:

Dante Alighieri, engraved by René Cottet:

Dante in the Forest of Horrors, engraved by Michel Monvoisin:

Dante and Virgil in Hell, engraved by Georges Bétemps:

Purgatory, engraved by Claude Durrens:

Paradise, engraved by Michel Monvoisin: