Collecting By Engraver

Hi Florian

Thanks for that article about the Österreichische Staatsdruckerei Wien
and the many others you have posted here about print methods.
It's like music to my ears.

Pity there isn't much info about those excellent Austrian master
engravers neither on line or in print.

At least we have some details concerning many Czech engravers and also
many from the Scandinavian countries.
And of course lots out there about Slania.

I guess I'll join you guys again and post a few more examples
of the art of miniature engraving.

Switzerland issued a definitive set called Historical Motives & Architectural Monuments
Part one between 1960 - 1963, Scott 382 - 399B

The first four values were engraved by Heinrich Heusser.

I don't believe he has been mentioned here before and Anthony
if you're still upgrading the list then perhaps you could add
him.

Printer : PTT Stamp Printing Works, Bern
via single colour rotary line engraving


Scott 382



Scott 383d sheet stamp "dot on pike"





Scott 383b coil stamp "no dot on pike"




Scott 384




Scott 385d sheet stamp "10 dots in harness "






Scott 385e Coil stamp "9 dots in harness"

The rest of the set was engraved by Albert-Edgar Yersin 1905 - 1984.
nethryk has already shown some of his work previously.


Switzerland

Scott 386



Scott 387



Scott 388



Scott 389



tetebechepair



Scott 390




Scott 391



to be continued...

Switzerland continued


Scott 393





Scott 394





Scott 395




Scott 396



Scott 397




Scott 398




Scott 399




Scott 399B

Great to see you back Litho. I mentioned to Florian the lack of any info regarding Geor Wimmer available as I was creating a mini exhibit for our local stamp club.
I will have to spend a bit of time and update the index soon and upload some of the Wimmer items I used.

AnthonyUK, I found some info in the web :

Prof. Georg Wimmer, steel engraver and graphic designer, born on February 3, 1894 in Ober-Danneg (Grafenbach St. ValentinNiederösterreich), died on September 22, 1975 in Vienna.
Along with Ferdinand Lorber and Rudolf Toth, Georg Wimmer is one of the best Austrian master engravers.

Hi Lithograving,

I am so happy to see you back. I did miss you, the worldly wisdom of your commentaries and your splendid all-embracing postings.

With all my good wishes to you,

Florian

Many thanks Jorges.
I think we also need to thank Nethryk for all his great posts too.
I always look forward to them.

Heh Florian it's nice to be back and I will enjoy learning more technical details concerning stamp printing methods.

Hi Jorges, funny you mentioning Ferdinand Lorber in your last post since I was actually in the process of posting some of his work.

Ferdinand Lorber 1883 - 1957, engraved stamps for the pre-war first Austrian Republic, then for the Third Reich (Generalgouvernement- occupied Poland) and finally for the post war second Austrian Republic.
His forte appears to have been portraitures of famous Austrians and he was quite good at it.

The academic painter Wilhelm Dachauer 1881 - 1951 designed most of the stamps which Lorber then engraved. They were quite a team.

AUSTRIA

Scott 562 1949

Karl von Millöcker, composer




Scott 569 1950

Moritz Daffinger, painter





Scott 570 1950

Andreas Hofer, national partisan hero who was executed by the French in Mantua while fighting Napoleon.






Scott 571 1950

Josef Madersperger, inventor of the sewing machine






Scott 568 1950

Alexander Girardi, actor

Hello Anthony, I'm looking forward to seeing your exhibit of Georg Wimmer, he was one of the best of so many engravers in post war Austria.
Hard to believe that stamp engraving is virtually a dying art now.



The Austrian Post sure got a lot of mileage out of one design/engraving by Ferdinand Lorber

The fact that his name is in the middle of the lower border/margin indicates that he was both the designer and engraver.
Most post WWII Austrian engraved stamps have the name of the engraver on the right lower border
and the designer on the left.

Karl Renner 1870 - 1950 of the Social Democratic Party was the first president of the First Austrian Republic (post WWI) and again the first president of the Second Austrian Republic (post WW II)



Scott 557 1948

Issued for the 30th anniversary of the Austrian Republic





Scott 574 1951


In memory of President Karl Renner





Scott 636 1958

Issued for the 40th anniversary of the Austrian Republic

those Swiss definitives are nice! Off to see if I can hunt some up on the auction sites ...

a nice stamp from the Saar, SG 261 (haven't lookd up the Scott # yet ... to be honest I glanced through the Germany section and didn't immediately see the Saar ... does it have it's own listing??). Anyway, the engraver's enscription says Mees; I went hunting and came up with:

Fokko Mees, (1887-1968), Dutch graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor, engraver, illustrator and book cover designer.

Hi clifhiker,

Saar is listed separately in Scott Volume 5.

Yours is Saar Scott 203. BTW it was printed via photogravure
not recess engraving, therefore in this instance Fokko Mees
was the designer not engraver.

As I mentioned before Lorber's work was composed mainly of "human" portraitures.

This set to commemorate the Austria Prize race, Vienna 1946
was the exception.

Designer : Carl Franz Bauer (1879-1954

Engraver : Ferdinand Lorber


Scott B179 - B183

thanks litho... figures I'd get it wrong, woulda known if I'd bothered to go look ... at least I got the right guy. Who's the other name then, M.M. Pers (I think)?