Collecting By Engraver

Release Date: August 26 1966
Format: single
Face value 3s
Color violet blue
Perforation: 13.5x13
Printing Style: Recess engraved
Design: Otto Zeiler
Engraver: Georg Wimmer
Printed by: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei

Michel: 1215, Scott: 770, Yvert: 1245, SG: 1477

Issued to commerate the first international trade fair at Wels

Release Date: August 30 1947
Format: set of 6
Face value 1s +40g
Color brown
Perforation: 14x13.5
Printing Style: Engraved-recess printing
Design: Sepp Jahn
Engraver: Georg Wimmer
Printed by: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei

Michel: , Scott: B223, Yvert: , SG: 1068

This set of semi-postal stamps was released in 1947 with the surcharge to assist returning P.O.W.s in resettling.

Release Date: October 25 1957
Format: Definitive set
Face value 10s
Color Dark Black/Green
Perforation: 14x13.5
Size 22mm x 26mm
Printing Style: Recess Engraved
Design: H. Strohofer
Engraver: Georg Wimmer
Printed by: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei

Michel: 1038, Scott: 630, SG: 1322

A set of definitives issued between 1957 – 1961 featuring a popular views.
Issued in many denominations and printing methods.

Release Date: February 18 1948
Format: set 10
Face value 75g +35g, 1s +50g
Color dark violet brown, deep blue
Perforation: 14x13.5
Printing Style: recess engraved
Design: H. Blechner
Engraver: Georg Wimmer
Printed by: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei

Michel: 864/866, Scott: B231/B233, SG: 1094/1096

Austria finalized its Marshall Plan program in the end of 1947 and received the first tranche of Marshall Plan aid in March 1948. Austrian heavy industry (or what was left of it) concentrated around Linz, in the American zone, and in British-occupied Styria. Their products were in high demand in post-war Europe. Quite naturally, the administrators of the Marshall Plan channeled available financial aid into heavy industry controlled by the American and British forces. American military and political leaders made no secret of their intentions: Geoffrey Keyes said that "we cannot afford to let this key area (Austria) fall under exclusive influence of the Soviet Union. Marshall Plan was deployed primarily against the Soviet zone but it was not completely excluded: it received 8% of Marshall plan investments (compared to 25% of food and other physical commodities). Austrian government regarded financial aid to the Soviet zone as a lifeline holding the country together. This was the only case when Marshall Plan funds were distributed in Soviet-occupied territories

Release Date: March 26 1962
Format: set of 6
Face value 1s, 1.50s, 1.80s, 3s, 4s, 6.40s
Color violet blue, red lilac, green, brown, rose red, grey
Perforation: 13.5x14
Printing Style: recess engraved
Design: A. Pilch
Engraver: Georg Wimmer (1s, 6.40s R. Toth)
Printed by: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei

Michel: 1103-1108, Scott: 676-681, SG: 1380-1385

Verstaatlichte Industrie – Nationalised industry 15th Anniversary
The Nationalisation Act of 26 July, 1946, provided the legal basis for the nationalisation of 3 Austrian joint stock banks (Creditanstalt-Bankverein, Länderbank, Österreichisches Credit-Institut), of the entire coal mining industry and of the iron ore, lead ore, copper ore and antimony mining industries, oil production and refineries, the entire metallurgical industry, aluminium production, enterprises in the electrical and chemicals industry and the DDSG shipping company. Initially, nationalisation was only partial, since plants under the administration of USIA could only be integrated after the year 1955.

Release Date: February 3 1967
Format: single
Face value 1.00 s
Color blue
Perforation: 14 * 13.5
Printing Style: Engraved-recess printing
Design: Adalbert Pilch
Engraver: Georg Wimmer
Printed by: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei

Michel: 1231, Scott: 785, Yvert: 1066, SG: 1493

The Vienna Ice Skating Club (Wiener Eislaufverein - WEV) celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1967.

A few Canadian engraved dummy stamps.

The two children are known as "the baby sisters" design and were printed by Canadian Bank Note.

The Bell and Leonardo designs are printed by British American Bank Note Co (BABNC).

The other two are identified on the actual dummy stamps. There invariably are other colours, but I am showing just an example of each design.

GLENN MORGAN

The French state printers (who were ITVF, but are now known as phil@poste) are excellent at attending stamp exhibitions. They invariably bring along an intaglio press and print souvenirs on-site. More recently these print samples have not been issued to visitors but destroyed post-show!

Two shows that resulted in engraved exhibition labels that were given away are shown below. The 1989 one is also depicted being printed, while the 2008 design is having surplus rubber on its inking blanket cut away with a scalpel.

There are some relevant images and videos that I have taken relating to engraving and general stamp production that might interest some at www.flickr.com/photos/glennmorganuk/sets/ Simply choose the folder that is of interest, most of which are on page two under the letter "S".

GLENN MORGAN



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GLENN MORGAN

Max Müller is a Swiss graphic artist and engraver from Bern. Here are five examples of Müller's engraving (and, in one instance, also his design) work.

- nethryk

Two stamps from a set of five showing historic writings, designed by Swiss artist Klaus Oberli, combined engraved and photogravure, and issued by Faroe Islands on October 19, 1981:

Rune stones, 800-1000 AD, Scott No. 65, Facit No. 65.


Ram seal and text, 1533, Scott No. 68, Facit No. 70.


Viking house and foundation, designed by Max Müller, and issued by Faroe Islands on March 15, 1982, Scott No. 82.


Mail coach, 1735, designed by Klaus Oberli, combined engraved and photogravure, and issued by Switzerland on March 10, 1987, Scott No. 783.


House cats, designed by Swiss graphic artist Celestino Piatti (1922-2007), combined engraved and lithography, and issued by Switzerland on March 6, 1990, Scott No. 871.

Anthony that is a great tribute to Georg Wimmer who IMO
was probably the best Austrian engraver post war up to middle
sixties. After that of course Rudolf Toth was the main man
for the Österreichische Staatsdruckerei again that is my
personal preference in engraving styles and what is pleasing to my eye.

All those technical details are similar to what was on the new issue
announcements from Austria Post, some of which I have.



Great stuff Anthony. Do you have more Wimmer?

Glenn, thanks for showing those Canadian dummies, I really enjoy
seeing these items for the first time.

On the second French sample stamp, bottom right margin is
printed ANDREOTTO (I believe).
Who is this referring to?

My favourite stamp engraved by Georg Wimmer is this Austrian
one issued in 1959 as part of a set of 4 for the Congress of
the International Hunting Council.

Wimmer and Toth each engraved two in the set.

These are some of the best examples of the art of stamp engraving,
like they say it doesn't get much better than this.
Pity that for the most part this art is all gone.


Scott 642






Scott 640






Scott 641




Scott 643

lithograving - I believe that would be French stamp designer and engraver Claude Andréotto (1949- ). - nethryk

Thanks nethryk, I wasn't sure if it even was an engraver's name
since the French have had a habit of sticking the names of engravers and designers
anywhere and everywhere in the design without rhyme or reason..

On the first take I took it to be the Italian ANDREOTTI, Rotogravure Printing Press.