Collecting By Engraver

I continue with more Swedish Slania.

Scott 1254 - 1256 1978

100th Birthday of 3 Swedish painters .

The 4.50 Kr with Ivar Arosenius' self portrait is
one of the best Slania has ever done I believe.

The painter represented himself as Christ with a flower garland
replacing the Crown of Thorns

The first stamp was not engraved by Slania but
by an engraver of the printer listed below.


Printer : The Bank of Finland Security Printing House

Printing process : Multicolour recess







Scott 1258

Royal coach built in 1699, issued in 1978

The purple engraving really stands from the coloured paper.

The Uppsala Cathedral definitive Scott 721 (1967) was printed in various colours and in multicolour
as test stamps.
These booklets were distributed free to collectors.

All stamps below were engraved by Czeslaw Slania



Test Booklet





Scott 852, 852 (1970)





Scott 741 - 742 (1971)




Scott 935 (1972)

Engraver : Czeslaw Slania

Scott 747A




Scott 1050





Scott 1140

AnthonyUK - Thanks. I have spent many pleasant hours admiring those two Monaco beauties. and of course many other fine stamps engraved by Czeslaw Slania; somehow his work never seems to get old.

Much of the postage stamp-related work done by Romanian artist Serban Zainea (1907-1990) was in their design, but Zainea also performed some stamp engraving work. Here are images of four stamps from a set Zainea produced for Romania that was issued on November 15, 1958 for the centenary of Romanian stamps, Scott Nos. 1252-55.

- nethryk

Printer and hand press


Scissors cutting stamps


Postilion and mail coach (and whips!)


Postilion sounding horn and courier on horseback

This Austrian Physicians semi - postal set was issued on December 5, 1937.

Scott B156 - B164


Designer : Wilhelm Dachauer

Engravers : Ferdinand Lorber 5, 24,30, 40, 60, 64(groschen) Arthur Schuricht 8,12,20 (groschen)


Arthur Schuricht , born in 1882 in Leipzig, died in 1945 in Vienna. Creator of Hammerschrift (or Hammer Unziale)

Hubert Woyty-Wimmer was another Austrian engraver we
haven't mentioned before I believe.





The stamp was designed by Josef Seger who produced
many stamp design including the 1948/51 costume series.

The unframed, borderless design really stands out.


Scott 564 1949

Spanish Kings from the 1961 set commemorating the 1200th
anniversary of the founding of Oviedo, capital of Asturia.

Scott 1034

King Fruela (died 768) , founder of Oviedo

Engraver : D. Carande






Scott 1036

King Alfonso II (770-842)

Engraver : A. Manso





Scott 1037

King Alfonso III (848 - 912)

Engraver : G. Martin Orbe

Beautiful scans lithograving!

Just one from me today. I got it yesterday in the mail - the start of the Slania stamps for my "Collecting by engraver"
collection

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That NZ $20 is a great looking stamp Perf.
I've seen pics of it before on another site but didn't
know that the engraver was Slania.

Do you know who the printer was?

Sure thing:




more information here:

http://www.slaniastamps-heindorffhu...wZealand.htm

cheers

alex

Removed 2nd posting, again

cheers

alex

Thanks Perf.

I wasn't aware that Leigh-Mardon Pty. had recess capabilities,
I thought that they were strictly a litho/offset printer.

But checking back on the few Canadian stamps Leigh-Mardon printed
I found that the 1994 high value definitives by L&M were also combination
print, recess & lithography .

lithograving - Great images of the three Spanish kings!

Here are images of five stamps designed and engraved by the award-winning French artist Claude Andreotto (1949- ), who has produced many attractive stamps over the past several decades.

- nethryk

Mounted Guardsman, issued by France on November 24, 1980, Scott No. 1717, Y&T No. 2115.


Three Mirage 2000s in flight, airmail stamp issued by France on June 6, 1981, Scott No. C53, Y&T No. PA54.


Pouembout Rodeo, issued for use in New Caledonia on October 27, 1979, Scott No. 450.


Les Grandes Archeologues, after a painting by Italian Surrealist artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), issued by Monaco on October 20, 1988, Scott No. 1647.


Storm petrels, issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on January 1, 1997, Scott No. 223.

A couple of Slania's minisheets that hit my mailbox just yesterday:

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When I received the Otto Bache SS from the Danish Philatelic
center I was stunned by it's beauty.
IMO one of the best examples of multicolour engraving ever
produced.


Spain Personalities. Perhaps nethryk could help
me out with the engravers.


Scott 1344

Admiral Alvaro de Bazan, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz
who took part in the famous Battle of Lepanto.




Scott 1461

Averroes (Ibn Rushd) Moorish philosopher,physician, astronomer etc




Scott 1462

Jose de Acosta, Jesuit historian & poet





Scott 1463

Maimonides (Moses ben-Maimon), a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher & physician





Scott 1464


Andress Laguna, 16th Century physician