Agnes Miski was one of three engravers trained at a unique
project set up by the Swedish Post and the printers Tumba Bruk. In the late
1970s, an intensive training course was set up for eleven pupils, so as to
create a pool of experienced and talented designers and engravers, who could
work on the country’s future stamps and banknotes. In the end, Miski would only
create banknote engravings for Sweden, and no stamps.
In fact, she only engraved a single stamp ever: for a 1993
issue of St Pierre et Miquelon, depicting the Prefect’s Residence.
More
interestingly, she also engraved a number of stamp images for French philatelic
documents. These were for stamp issues which were not printed in recess and for
which, therefore, an engraved version had to be made for those documents. She
created those for the 1995 Audubon Birds set and the 1997 Crime Novel Heroes
set, plus two Red Cross Christmas stamps.
Miski has her own studio, works freelance and has engraved
many a banknote for various countries.