tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81888165029785338162024-03-19T04:42:55.131+00:00Stamp EngraversA database of stamp engravers all over the world and their work.Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comBlogger1609125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-3439756217547471152021-10-22T01:24:00.002+01:002021-10-22T01:24:00.247+01:00The Two MastersI have felt for some time, in fact ever since the Czech Republic abandoned the idea of high quality engraved stamps, that my interest in stamp engravings and engravers has sort of run its course. The vast majority of new issues may have some hand-engraving at the core, but the actual stamps are really just computer generated, and only by collecting die proofs can one still hold a piece of Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-31425402479950185642021-10-15T11:08:00.000+01:002021-10-15T11:08:00.268+01:00Bertil Skov Jørgensen: Denmark’s Swan Song (part 5 of 5)Skov Jørgensen is also satisfied with two of his miniature
sheets: the Niebuhr issue of 2011 and the Dybbøl sheetlet of 2014. The Niebuhr
sheet was based on
engravings by Georg Wilhelm Baurenfeind, the engraver who accompanied the
cartographer Carsten Niebuhr on his expedition to Arabia, the subject of the
miniature sheet. The three engravings depicted Niebuhr in Arab costume, a
horse-drivenAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-9181128245148746412021-10-08T11:02:00.000+01:002021-10-08T11:02:00.297+01:00Bertil Skov Jørgensen: Denmark’s Swan Song (part 4 of 5)In 2013, Skov Jørgensen finally got the opportunity to
engrave a portrait stamp. Both Denmark and the Faröe Islands issued a single
stamp to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sören Aabye Kierkegaard, the famous Danish philosopher.
The portrait which was used on the stamp was based on an original made in a
combination of pencil and charcoal. Even though Skov Jørgensen was very much in
Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-12579482288085236042021-10-01T10:59:00.000+01:002021-10-01T10:59:00.224+01:00Bertil Skov Jørgensen: Denmark’s Swan Song (part 3 of 5)After Skov Jørgensen had been practising for a while to
become a stamp engraver, he felt he finally made a breakthrough with his ‘spark
plug’ practice piece, created
in 2007. The image has a minute caption reading ‘600%’, and when Skov Jørgensen
finally managed to represent the % sign with actual circles rather than mere dots,
he realised he was ready for the smaller parts of an engraving Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-17726017834862102092021-09-24T10:54:00.000+01:002021-09-24T10:54:00.248+01:00Bertil Skov Jørgensen: Denmark’s Swan Song (part 2 of 5)Although never a real stamp collector himself, Skov
Jørgensen had always wanted to design a stamp. He admired the crystalline
clarity of banknote and stamp engravings, and wondered at the possibilities to
cram a whole universe of imagery onto such a small format. What also attracted
him was that the art of a stamp or banknote engraver was available to be
appreciated by a large audience, Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-64565189022424496102021-09-17T10:50:00.000+01:002021-09-17T10:50:00.273+01:00Bertil Skov Jørgensen: Denmark’s Swan Song (part 1 of 5)For many decades, the Nordic Countries had been proud
suppliers of hand-engraved stamps, but one by one they abandoned this tradition
of quality and artistic splendour, in favour of more cheaply produced products.
Denmark was no exception, and the country which once kept engravers such as
Britze, Jacobsen, Slania and Kühlmann busy hasn’t issued a single engraved
stamp since 2016. One by one, the Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-43064886448408322322021-09-14T09:30:00.001+01:002021-09-14T09:30:00.289+01:00GALLERY: Hendrik Seegers1927Netherlands60th Anniversary of the Dutch Red CrossEngraving of unaccepted design portraying Queen WilhelminaAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-76955177019682833072021-09-04T09:24:00.001+01:002021-09-04T09:24:00.260+01:00GALLERY: Johannes Josephus Aarts1927Netherlands60th Anniversary of the Dutch Red CrossEngraving of unaccepted design portraying Queen WilhelminaAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-65698400782757087222021-07-24T10:13:00.001+01:002021-07-24T10:13:00.263+01:00GALLERY: Philip Goodwyn Hall1940New ZealandCentenary of Proclamation of British SovereigntyMaori CouncilHall working on his engraving of the design used for the 7d and 8dAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-63726502237320279122021-07-14T09:24:00.004+01:002021-07-14T09:39:56.615+01:00VIDEO: Louis BoursierIt's le quatorze juillet today, so why not celebrate with a short video on one of France's current stamp engravers: Louis Boursier!Featuring in the video is his 2013 History of France sheetlet, one of the first ones of this long-running series, which have regularly been awarded the Grand Prix de l'Art Philatélique. Enjoy!Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-69823391499272972882021-07-04T09:32:00.001+01:002021-07-04T09:32:00.234+01:00VIDEO: Czeslaw SlaniaHere's another video for you to enjoy! Too big to be included here in the blog, but you'll find it HERE. This is unusual footage of Slania visiting an exhibition of his work in 1994.It is completely in Polish so anyone speaking Polish should pay extra attention and tell me afterwards if anything extra special was said, or whether it was just the usual. I like how the crowd had to endure a sessionAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-84878271930421722412021-06-24T09:28:00.002+01:002021-06-24T09:28:00.255+01:00GALLERY: Sophie Beaujard2021FranceBicentenary of Napoleon's deathProgressive die proof (phase 3)Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-5046383856884914252021-06-21T09:15:00.000+01:002021-06-21T09:15:20.341+01:00VIDEO: Georges BétempsSomeone sent me a video of a Georges Bétemps exhibit which was on show during the 76th annual stamp exhibition of the North Toronto Stamp Club in Canada (it doesn't say which year). The exhibit is put together by Daniel Marz and is a thing of beauty. There are quite a few frames and the material is presented very well indeed, so if nothing else it is a showcase in how to set up and present aAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-26543095792005309122021-06-02T10:25:00.002+01:002021-07-09T22:56:56.412+01:00DATABASE: Louis GentySTAMPS
2021Andorra (Fr), Napoleon IAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-68340866918304345202021-05-05T09:35:00.001+01:002021-05-05T09:35:00.259+01:00BIOGRAPHY: Arild YttriArild Yttri (born 1958) received his initial training in the art of line engraving at the National School of Fine Arts in Bergen, Norway, where he studied from 1979 to 1986. At some stage, a teacher of his alerted him to a vacancy at the Bank of Norway, where Yttri would be accepted and received further training in the art of steel engraving. He would stay with the bank until it discontinued the Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-42112162401028606242021-04-28T09:35:00.000+01:002021-04-28T09:35:07.109+01:00_ _ _ . . _ _ . _It's funny how you sometimes think you've studied a stamp quite exhaustively, only to find out there's so much more to learn about it! That's what happened to me the other day when I read a blog post on the Dutch Postzegelblog, by Cees Janssen. The post is about the 1947 Austrian stamp to mark the centenary of the Austrian Telegraph, a stamp engraved by Herbert Toni Schimek. Now it is quite Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-60672736491709764522021-04-07T09:54:00.032+01:002021-04-07T09:54:00.673+01:00BIOGRAPHY: H. E. ColeH. E. Cole was born in London, England, in 1904. He attended the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts Institute before becoming an apprentice at Waterlow & Sons, where he would stay for a whole decade.Cole would later come to work for Bradbury Wilkinson, as a letter engraver. He stayed fifteen years at BW. During that time he engraved the frames of the 1952 'National Coach Museum' set Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-26449254190763455802021-04-04T10:47:00.000+01:002021-04-04T10:47:00.314+01:00BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Lawrence Keen
“Accepting a position with a
security company is like entering a monastery and surrendering one’s identity
as the iron doors clang behind you.”
This quote from the English
security engraver Joseph Lawrence (Joe) Keen (1919-2004) can be found in Gene
Hessler’s book The International Engraver’s Line. It is a telling
quote for, once again, when researching the stamp engravings of the Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-30054447556833913152021-04-02T09:14:00.001+01:002021-04-02T09:14:00.483+01:00GALLERY: Czeslaw Slania2000SwedenNobel Prize Winners for LiteratureThe Poet Wislawa SzymborskaEngraved by Czeslaw SlaniaAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-10475604910221536402021-03-31T11:01:00.004+01:002021-03-31T11:02:38.092+01:00GALLERY: Lars Sjööblom2005DenmarkBirth Bicentenary of Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian AndersenEngraved by Lars SjööblomAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-58711909753863664752021-03-24T10:07:00.002+00:002021-03-24T10:07:00.610+00:00BIOGRAPHY: Martin CinovskyMartin Cinovsky was born in 1953,
in Czechoslovakian Levoča, which is now in Slovakia. From a young age, his
schooling was aimed at the arts and from 1971 to 1977 he studied at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where the famous stamp designer Professor Albin
Brunovsky was his mentor.
Further education followed in
France, where he studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-69450526515405196062021-03-20T09:51:00.000+00:002021-03-20T09:51:02.010+00:00BIOGRAPHY: Allan Alexander CarswellAllan Alexander Carswell (born 1935 in Ontario, Canada) became an apprentice at the Canadian Bank Note Company in 1954. He started out studying letter engraving but three years later moved on to picture engraving. At this time, the stamp engraver Yves Baril would become his tutor.In 1962, Carswell's first stamp engraving was issued: it comprised the portrait of Lord Selkirk on a stamp marking theAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-84050317089309932452021-03-18T09:32:00.001+00:002021-03-18T09:32:03.309+00:00BIOGRAPHY: Clive CresserClive Cresser (1934-1994) was the son of banknote engraver Bert Cresser. Clive worked for Bradbury Wilkinson and also for De La Rue, but mainly as a banknote engraver. In fact, only one stamp is so far known to have been engraved by him, and that is the 1968 issue of Ireland marking the 800th anniversary of St Mary's Cathedral in Limerick. Cresser was known for his very precise engravings.You Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-23623175487949975462021-03-16T09:45:00.007+00:002021-04-08T11:00:55.753+01:00DATABASE: H. E. ColeSTAMPS1952Portugal, National Coach Museum, frames only (1)Notes:1) The International engraver's line - Gene HesslerYou will find H. E. Cole's biography HERE.Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188816502978533816.post-11937266165349819932021-03-14T09:41:00.001+00:002021-04-17T19:26:18.609+01:00BIOGRAPHY: Arne Kühlmann Hansen
Arne Kühlmann Hansen (1939-2017) received his training as an engraver in
England in the 1960s. The National Bank of Denmark was his sponsor and after
his studies, he came to work there, being involved in the nation’s banknote
design.
In 1974, Kühlmann Hansen engraved his first stamp: a single
value marking the centenary of the Tivoli Pantomime Theatre in Copenhagen. Even
though he has Adrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745769665637978663noreply@blogger.com