Collecting By Engraver

This Austrian SS was issued in 2005 shows the Sattler-Panorama
a painting of Salzburg in 360°, it is 4.86m high and 25.8m long.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann...hael_Sattler

Engraver : Wolfgang Seidel (1946- )

Printing : combination multicolour photogravure & 1 colour engraving

I don't have Scott numbers for this
Austria Netto Katalog 2591 - 2592

Sorry I can't afford Scott catalogs and Volume 1 in the library
was out.

Lithograving..i've been lucky getting stuff off ebay and just got a nice packet of french stuff off Denali..great prices and service.
I guess things taper off a bit before the Santa season. Nevertheless
i'm pleased to be part of this motley group of stamp aficionados..don't care for the word "philatelist" I don't collect stamps pere se..i collect images..whether it be on stamps, stock certificates, bank notes..etc etc.

I have a lot of pages to get through. It's been a while. Amazing stuff as always. Gonna try to stick around is time.

I moved from Lisbon, Portugal to Barcelona, Spain recently so life has been crazy but I am settled in now so time to get back to stuff I enjoyed doing and seeing!

@ graphis, I've also always bought stamps purely because they pleased my eye.
Sometimes I liked the type of stamps (design wise or engravings) issued by a particular country such as Italy, Spain, Denmark , Sweden.

I never ever collected with the almighty $ value in mind.

And I have enjoyed every minute with my stamps.

Well actually I do hate soaking stamps, it's tedious.

Andrew, it's great to see you back, you're contributions were missed.

I look forward to seeing you post interesting stuff in the future.

lithograving - When I tried to open this thread last Monday Nov. 26, I was unable to do so due to a glitch affecting my SCF access but the next day I was glad to see Ryan had explained the Lipsia catalogue matters, you and nethryk had again posted some more of your wonderful images, and, moreover, graphis had joined in understanding fully what makes us tick collecting particular engraved stamps.

Adding little by little to my collection once in a while, by a strange coincidence, it's Majvor Francén's post bus stamp (Sweden Scott 991 1973) I have recently acquired, enjoying its colour scheme, her unusual style of engraving as well as the printers' job.

Now I am admiring graphis' images of the Expo Paris 1937 stamps bringing back memories of my visits to Paris and to places decorated with sculptures of the period that witnessed the event.

Myself a lame duck in a way, unable to post images, I do enjoy and am most grateful for what all of you post. Thanks a lot.

More ladies...

Antoine Delzers
Scott 112



Achille Ouvre
Scott 217



Pierre Gandon
Scott B132

A couple of interesting stamps from Nicaragua in homage to Will Rogers.From about 1925 to 1928, Rogers traveled the length and breadth of the United States, on a "lecture tour". (He began his lectures by pointing out that "A humorist entertains, and a lecturer annoys.") During this time he became the first civilian to fly from coast to coast with pilots flying the mail in early air mail flights.

Scott C240


Scott C237

graphis - Regarding the image you posted of the Sarah Bernhardt birth centenary semi-postal issued by France, Scott No. B191, this stamp was actually designed (after a tableau by French Naturalist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848-1884) and engraved by Pierre Gandon. However, at the time of the stamp's issuance on May 16, 1945, less than a year after the Liberation of Paris, Gandon was in official disgrace for some stamps he engraved in 1942 glorifying the Vichy government's légion tricolore (French Volunteers Against Bolshevism), which was eventually integrated into the Wehrmacht during World War II. So Gandon's colleague and friend, Charles Mazelin, signed the Bernhardt stamp instead. Fortunately for us, the dark cloud soon passed over, and Pierre Gandon went on to produce some of the world's finest engraved stamps.

- nethryk

Decaris December: I wish to help achieve lithograving's ambitious goal of attaining 100,000 views of this thread by year end. Therefore, all this month I will be posting images here of previously unposted (at least, by me) stamps designed and/or engraved by the great French artist and engraver Albert Decaris (May 6, 1901- January 1, 1988).

Here is my first "Decaris du jour," which also happens to be one of the last stamps Decaris produced for France.

- nethryk

Allegorical figure of "France" mourning her dead, and the Eternal Flame, designed and engraved by Albert Decaris, and issued by France on November 2, 1985 to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the inhumation of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe, Scott No. 1988, Yvert & Tellier No. 2389.

graphis, too bad we don't have the engraver for those
Nicaraguan Will Rogers stamps.

Seems like for the American bank Note Co as for many of
the English printers there is no info about who engraved their
stamps.

nethryk, that will be a great endeavour to have a Decaris December month.

And since it's that time of year I will try and post daily
an engraved Christmas stamp.

These were the first Canadian Christmas stamps.

NO not this one





but these two issued in 1964

Scott/ Unitrade 434, 435

3c for unsealed Christmas greeting cards



5c for first class letter mail





Designer : Harvey Prosser

Engraver : Allen Carswell (vignette) Gordon Mash (lettering)

Printer : Canadian Bank Note Co. Ottawa


I remember when they were first announced I was quite excited since not too many countries had issued Christmas stamps by the early sixties therefore there was a novelty about them still.
I was kind of disappointed in the design and the engraving wasn't exactly great but Canada issued only a few stamps a year then so I was really looking forward to every stamp coming out.

Pair of Swedish stamps issued in 1971 for the joint northern benefit of refugees.
They depict Terns in Flight, representing I suppose those poor
refugees fleeing from their oppressed and economically backward
countries to the rich Scandinavian welfare democracies.

Engraver :Czeslaw Slania

Scott 886, 887

Pair of Swedish stamps issued in 1973 for the 75th anniversary
of the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions.

Scott 999,1000

Engraver :Czeslaw Slania





Excellent engraving by Slania, just look at the veins popping
on the worker's arms.