Collecting By Engraver

Just arrived in the mail..a bunch of Polish stamps.

Slania-2002-Souvenir Sheet

Scott 3653

Polish Air Mail 1952 issues

Scott C28-31

A couple of Polish Patriotic issues..

Marshal Pilsudski Reviewing Troops( December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman—Chief of State (1918–22), "First Marshal" (from 1920), and leader (1926–35) of the Second Polish Republic. From mid-World War I he had a major influence in Poland's politics, and was an important figure on the European political scene. He is considered largely responsible for the creation of the Second Republic of Poland in 1918

Scott 340-1939






80th anniv. of the Insurrection of Paris and
the death of Gen. Jaroslaw Dabrowski
Dabrowski is remembered in the history of Poland as the organiser of Polish Legions in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. He began his work in 1796, when he was summoned to Paris by Napoleon Bonaparte, and was authorised by the Cisalpine Republic to create Polish legions, which would be part of the army of the newly created Republic of Lombardy. This was a year after the 3rd Partition of Poland between Russia, Prussia and Austria. Poland disappeared from the map of Europe, but Polish military formations gave the country a chance to re-enter international affairs with support of France in the Polish independence efforts. Thus, the creation of a Polish army in Italy, at a time when the Italians refused to fight under the French banner, was beneficial to both the French and the Poles. He is featured in the lyrics of the Polish National Anthem

"Poland has not yet perished,
So long as we still live.
What the alien force has taken from us,
We shall retrieve with a sabre.

March, march, Dabrowski,
From the Italian land to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation."


Scott 499 - 1951

More from my recent Polish acquistions...


Natl. Philatelic Exhibition, Walbrzych, of 1997
Ceslaw Slania's 1001st stamp design


Scott 3476

It's ironic that this souvenir sheet from Norway celebrating Stamp Day and the art of stamp engraving...is a litho!

Scott 998

Graphis, nice sharp scans on those Swedish ones I have those too.
It was those single colour engraved stamps of the late sixties and early seventies which first made me notice Swedish stamps.

The engraved stamps just looked different than the ones I had seen from other countries and for that reason I subscribed to the PFA for a number of years.

At that time I just noticed the engraving, I had no interest or knowledge as to who the engravers were.
I had never heard of Slania or any of the other "famous" engravers and I really didn't care.

All I knew was that I really liked those engraved stamps.

Here are a couple engraved by Rudolf Toth who was not as "famous"
as the great Slania but no slouch either.

Austria 1985
Scott 1300

100th Anniverassry of the birth of Lorenz Böhler, surgeon and
sometimes refered to as the creator of modern accident surgery.



Austria 1985
Scott 1326

Adam Politzer was a physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology.

For the Christams theme today we have a Nativity crib (creche)
in front of the Vienna City Hall.

Engraver : Wolfgang Seidel

Printing : 1 colour (black) engraved , multicolour photogravure

Even though the engraved portion on most of these
combination printings is minimal it still sharpens the details.
Many stamps showing paintings and printed solely via photogravure or offset/litho
are just blobs of colour running together.

Austria 1996
Scott 1713

This one by Slania has I don't think been posted before, at least by me.
Looks like I'm running out of Slanias

Printing : 3 colour recess engraving


The Strömkarlen (water spirit) was the best work of
Ernst Josephson ( 1851 -1906 ) who is reputed to have said at the age of 20,
"I will become Sweden's Rembrandt or die."

He also had religious hallucinations and believed that he was God and Christ. Quoted from Wikipedia.


Sweden 1980
Scott 1340

Continuing from page 89 with the Stamp Day letters here are the
letters E and L

BRIEFMARKE PHILATELIE

Engraver : Werner Pfeiler (born 1941)

Austria 1994
Scott B360

Stamp Day 1995 had the letters F and A

BRIEFMARKE PHILATELIE


Designer & Engraver : Otto Stefferl (1931 -)

Austria 1995
Scott B361

The Slania engraving showing the weaver has always fascinated me - so few lines, but such an accurate representation of shading. It also interests me from the weaving standpoint - I know of the Japanese forms of the craft, but nothing of the European equivalents. Here's a brief video example showing one of the methods of Japanese kumihimo braiding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWeYCJiCG_I

Ryan

LITHOGRAVING, the SLANIA DWORY scan commemorates Dwory's ISO (International Standards Organisation) 14001 certification.

Wikipedia states that ISO 14000 is a family of standards related to environmental management that exists to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b) comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements, and (c) continually improve in the above. The label was printed in sheets of 14 labels (7 rows of 2).

A block of four is currently on ebay at http://www.ebay.com/itm/SLANIA-ENGR...em337e53f25a

See also a scan done by Slania for the company at http://www.slaniastamps-heindorffhu...ateDwory.htm Also a perforated MS at http://www.ebay.com/itm/SLANIA-POLA...390394231981

I met the great man more than once and always enjoyed our discussions on engraving (through an interpretor).

GLENN MORGAN

Some more Slania to help to get to the 100 page mark.
SG 609

SG 689