While it lasted, the Swedish Post had always been rather good in promoting their stamp engravers. Among the many brochures and booklets is this little gem called Våra Frimärksgravörer, or Our Stamp Engravers.
The booklet, with its Slania engraving on the front, counts sixteen pages in colour, which include tiny biographies of the engravers working for Sweden at the time (mid 1990s). There are five of them: Czeslaw Slania, Zlatko Jakus, Martin Mörck, Lars Sjööblom and Piotr Naszarkowski.
Although the information is limited, it is available in three languages (Swedish, English and German), and as a nice extra the brochure includes some actual stamps. Of those, the 1990 Jakus stamp is interesting in that it is a stamp which would normally be part-etched, but this one is completely engraved.
A bit of a mystery: the booklet ends with four illustrations of 'free engravings', but I've yet to find out whether these were originally part of the booklet or whether they were simply available from the Swedish post at the time.
(UPDATE: 25 May 2020: the engravings, so I've now been authoritatively told, were NOT part of the booklet)
Våra Frimärksgravörer
Posten Frimärken
Printed in Stockholm, Sweden
16 pages in full colour
The booklet, with its Slania engraving on the front, counts sixteen pages in colour, which include tiny biographies of the engravers working for Sweden at the time (mid 1990s). There are five of them: Czeslaw Slania, Zlatko Jakus, Martin Mörck, Lars Sjööblom and Piotr Naszarkowski.
Although the information is limited, it is available in three languages (Swedish, English and German), and as a nice extra the brochure includes some actual stamps. Of those, the 1990 Jakus stamp is interesting in that it is a stamp which would normally be part-etched, but this one is completely engraved.
A bit of a mystery: the booklet ends with four illustrations of 'free engravings', but I've yet to find out whether these were originally part of the booklet or whether they were simply available from the Swedish post at the time.
(UPDATE: 25 May 2020: the engravings, so I've now been authoritatively told, were NOT part of the booklet)
Våra Frimärksgravörer
Posten Frimärken
Printed in Stockholm, Sweden
16 pages in full colour