Collecting By Engraver

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Stamp Day 1996 had the letters M and T

BRIEFMARKE PHILATELIE


Designer : Otto Stefferl

Engraver : Werner Pfeiler


Austria 1996
Scott B362

Stamp Day 1997 had the letters A and E

BRIEFMARKE PHILATELIE


Designer & Engraver : Otto Stefferl

Austria 1997
Scott 1725





Sorry about the missing corner. I was going to going to
"bin" it but it's the only copy I have.

Stamp Day 1998 had the letters R and L

BRIEFMARKE PHILATELIE

Designer & Engraver : Otto Stefferl


Austria 1998
Scott 1765




They were issued as a miniature sheet of eight.

lithograving...thanks for the info and link..i'm really enjoying contributing to this thread and forum....with recent acquistions and stamps I bought years ago because they were visually appealing to me and affordable.
Do you think we'll make it to 100??

I don't have the 1999 Stamp Day but here is the last one.




Stamp Day 2000 letters E and E

BRIEFMARKE PHILATELIE


Designer & Engraver : Otto Stefferl.I believe this was the last stamp
Stefferl created for the Austrian State Printer.

Austria 2000
Scott 1818

I think we have a good shot at getting there.

On May 30, 2000 same day as the above mentioned Scott 1818 was issued,
Austria Post also issued this one below for the 150th Anniversary
of the first Austrian postage stamps, Scott # 5.


Designer and Engraver : Werner Pfeiler

Austria 2000
Scott 1819

Kingdom of Morocco -17th Summer Olympics in Rome 1960

Scott 45-52 Albert Decaris

V+T #399
Issued 1938 engraved by Antoine Dezarrois

Reims Cathedral semi-postal

Bishop Remi (Saint Remigius, c. 437-533) baptizing Clovis I, King of the Franks (c. 466-511), in 496 AD, designed and engraved by Albert Decaris, and issued by France on November 5, 1966, Scott No. 1166, Y&T No. 1496.

- nethryk

Equatorial Africa France - Jungle Scene


Gandon eng.

Scott 169

Monaco 1955
From a series featuring designs from books by Jules Verne

The Floating House

Scott 341 Gandon eng.


The House of Vapors

Scott 342 J.Piel eng.

Republic of Malagsy - Butterflies 1960 - Rene Cottet eng.

Scott 306



Scott 307

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Posted by graphis 12/18/2012 12:52 pm, p. 91

florian..glad to have you back...i hope you can give me some info on the woman featured in this stamp..i've seen the similar image in other Czech stamps.....Is she an iconic figure like Lady Liberty (USA) Marianne (France)???


graphis - You do have an observant eye noticing things in your stamps.

Prof. Max Švabinský (1873 - 1962) of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, designer of these stamps, held the view that the postage stamp (as well as money) was a "visiting/calling card" of the country of issue and as such deserved the utmost care in its execution.

His garlanded women were either symbolic of
Republic (your stamp issued in 1958 for the 40th anniversary of the first Czechoslovak postage stamp),
Humanity (the 60-heller stamp issued in 1959 for Human Rights),
Peace (the 1 Kès stamp - of the same set - featuring Garlanded Woman with Dove of Peace) or
one of the Muses (the 1.60 Kès stamp issued in 1958 for Švabinský's own 85th Birthday, featuring his wood engraving of 1932 "The Poet and the Muse").

What drew your attention to these stamps might have been the fact that Prof. Švabinský's allegorical figures all bore the same features, being in fact those of his step-daughter Zuzana (b. 1912), who looked after him in his old age and posed for him when he was designing these stamps.

Prof. Švabinský's allegorical figures representing Republic originally wore a Phrygian cap, which is a symbol of Liberty (the set of stamps issued in 1938 for the 20th anniv. of the Czechoslovak Republic featuring Republic holding olive branch in one hand and Dove of Peace in the other, and the set of stamps issued in 1948 for the International Sokol Display in Prague featuring Sokols paying homage to Republic.

Note: The Sokol (=falcon) Physical Fitness Organisation (founded in 1865) was modelled on a similar patriotic organisation of German Turners (founded in 1848). See the U.S.A. Scott 1262 stamp issued in 1965 for the Centenary of the Sokol Physical Fitness Organisation in the U.S.A. and the U.S.A. Scott 979 stamp issued in 1948 for the Centenary of American Turners - Fathers of Physical Education and the set of two Czechoslovak stamps issued in 1938 for the 10th Sokol Winter Games depicting Falcon in Mountain Scenery.

The 1998 Austrian Christmas stamp showed a fresco from circa 1423 in the parish church of Tainach, Carinthia (Kärnten)

Engraver : Wolfgang Seidel

Austria 1998
Scott 1774