Stamp Engravers
DATABASE: Lars Sjööblom
Sweden, Europa
Sweden, Printing
Sweden, Postal savings
Sweden, Mountain world
Sweden, Christmas
Sweden, Nature
Sweden, Table tennis championships
Sweden, Stockholmia 86
United States, Stamp collecting, magnifying glass stamp only
Sweden, Threatened species
Sweden, Gripsholm castle
Finland, Founding of New Sweden
Sweden, New Sweden
Sweden, Coastal wildlife
Sweden, Swift
Sweden, Animals in threatened habitats
Sweden, Labour movement
Sweden, Eagle owl
Sweden, National parks
Sweden, Safety inspectorate
Sweden, Equestrian games
Sweden, Pulp and paper industry
Sweden, Fishes
Sweden, Postal co-operation
Sweden, Nobel prize winners
Estonia, Baltic birds
Latvia, Baltic birds
Lithuania, Baltic birds
Sweden, Wildlife
Sweden, Olympic medallists
Sweden, Museum of fine arts
Sweden, Baltic birds
Sweden, Sports championships
Sweden, Sea birds
Sweden, Toni Morrison
Sweden, Domestic animals
Sweden, Football championship
Sweden, College of arts
Sweden, Domestic animals (2 issues)
Sweden, Berries
Sweden, Ice hockey championship
Sweden, UNO
Sweden, Motion pictures
Sweden, Fritiof Nilsson
Sweden, Mail sorting
Sweden, Golf
Sweden, Fungi
Sweden, Four decades of youth
Sweden, Art
Sweden, Wildlife (3 issues)
Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustav
Sweden, Cars
Sweden, Confederation of trade unions
Sweden, Peace of Westphalia
Sweden, Stockholm
Sweden, 20th century
Sweden, Nobel literature prize
Sweden, Bicycles
Sweden, Zodiac signs
Sweden, Dance bands
Sweden, New millennium
Denmark, Oresund link
Sweden, King's pocket watch
Sweden, Oresund link
Sweden, Royal definitives
Sweden, Children's toys
Sweden, Birds
Sweden, Daniel Solander
Sweden, Aviation
Denmark, Postal co-operation
Denmark, Postal vehicles
New Zealand, Artistic crafts (2)
Sweden, World heritage sites
Sweden, Artistic crafts
Sweden, Motorcycle sports
Denmark, Insects
Denmark, Europa
Greenland, Sled dogs
Sweden, Provincial houses
Sweden, St Bridget
Sweden, Anna Lindh
Denmark, Frederiksberg palace
Denmark, Birds of prey
Ireland, Irish nobel prize winners (2)
Sweden, Woodworking tools
Sweden, Nordic mythology
Sweden, Pigeon society
Sweden, Irish nobel prize winners
Sweden, Winter birds
Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen
Denmark, August Bournonville
Greenland, Geological mapping
Greenland, Ikka Fjord
Greenland, Limnognathia Maerski
Norway, Dissolution of union, 6k only (3)
Sweden, Design
Sweden, Royal coil stamps
Sweden, Golden oriole
Sweden, Svinesund bridge
Sweden, Greta Garbo
Sweden, Mopeds
Sweden, Angel sculptures
Denmark, Spring flowers
Denmark, Rosenborg castle
Germany, Hanseatic league (2)
Greenland, Scientific sites
Sweden, Railways
Sweden, King's birthday
Sweden, Hanseatic league
Sweden, Children's TV programmes
Denmark, Royal family
Denmark, National museum
Denmark, Personalities
Sweden, Large blue butterfly
Sweden, Carl von Linné
Sweden, Swallowtail butterfly
Sweden, Fashion design
Sweden, Astrid Lindgren
Aland Islands, Lighthouses
Denmark, Winter flora
Sweden, Insects
Sweden, Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, Winged butterflies
Sweden, Comic strips
Sweden, Winter games
Denmark, COP15
Sweden, Kissing mouth
Sweden, Birds of prey
Sweden, Albertus Pictor
Sweden, Spices and herbs
Sweden, Journey into space
Canada, Marine Life
Sweden, Castles and palaces
Sweden, King and Queen
Sweden, Marine life
Sweden, Royal pair
Sweden, Crime novels
Sweden, Art of engraving
Sweden, Snow crystals
Sweden, Fossils
Sweden, Bicycles and tricycles
Sweden, Industrial environments
Sweden, Wilhelm Struve
Sweden, Poppy seeds and cones
Sweden, Equestrian sports
Sweden, Patterned
Aland Islands, The man at the wheel
Denmark, Johanne Heiberg
Sweden, Raoul Wallenberg
Sweden, Type fonts
Sweden, Textile art
Sweden, Masked Ball opera
Sweden, Geometry
Sweden, Folket Park
Sweden, Fishing
Sweden, Stockholm planning committee
Sweden, Time and space
Sweden, 40th anniversary of coronation
Sweden, Baby animals
Sweden, Tile stoves
Sweden, Tomas Tranströmer
Belgium, Antwerp Market (hand of statue)
Sweden, A Swedish classic
Sweden, Carl Michael Bellman
Sweden, Baltic hawker
Sweden, Church art
Sweden, Alice Tegnér
Sweden, Farmhouse wall decorations
Sweden, Ingrid Bergman
Sweden, Mushrooms
Sweden, Winter trees
Sweden, Iron meets silver
Sweden, White-tailed eagle
Sweden, Museum of natural history
Sweden, Vacation
Sweden, Bridges
OTHER PHILATELIC ENGRAVINGS
Sweden, The Postman label (1)
Non-postal label of Professor Per-Olof Astrand, portrait only (4)
Sweden, Astrid Lindgren engraving for Swedish post Xmas gift
Sweden, Golden Eagle for Swedish Post booklet
Grand Prix de l'Art Philatélique Européen for the Heiberg stamp for Denmark
1) The handbook of Stamp Production, Glenn H Morgan
2) Joint Stamp Issues, November 2006
3) Sverre Morken fra mikro til makro
4) The Engraving Art of Czeslaw Slania, Ed. Harold Ashby Short, 2008
You will find Lars Sjööblom's biography HERE.
Database Sjööblom
BOOK: The Engraving Art of Czeslaw Slania
It has since disbanded but the Czeslaw Slania Study Group was a major force in the field of Slania collecting for many years. Apart from their newsletters, they published works cataloguing everything by Slania. This continued until after the master's death in 2005, and the publication of today is their 2008 fifth revised edition of The Engraving Art of Czeslaw Slania , which may well be their latest edition of this work. For those who would like to have a complete-as-possible list of Slania items this is really a good book to hunt down. Not only does it list all stamps engraved by Slania (naturally!), it goes on to list his banknotes, his non-postal labels - the boxer labels taking pride of place among them - and his private art. But it goes on! Phone cards, stamp cards, postal cards, postmarks, bookplates, design sketches; basically anything and everything that is Slania related is to be found in here. Printed in black and white, these 124 pages are a treasure of in
DATABASE: Pierre Gandon
STAMPS 1939 French Morocco, Definitives 1940 Togo, Definitives Togo, Postage dues 1941 Dahomey, Definitives France, National Seamen's relief fund France, National relief fund 1942 France, Marshal Pétain France, Empire fortnight France, National relief fund France, Tricolour legion Monaco, Airmail Monaco, National relief fund 1943 France, Lake Lérie France, National Relief Fund 1944 France, Petain's birthday France, National relief fund France, Liberation France, Mobile POs Monaco, St Devote 1945 France, Marianne definitives France, Sarah Bernhardt French Morocco, Air 1946 France, Air France, Peace conference France, National relief fund Monaco, Child welfare fund 1947 France, Air France, Cannes France, UPU congress France, Conques abbey French Equatorial Africa, Definitives French Guiana, Definitives French Morocco, Definitives French West Africa, Definitives 1948 France, Air (2 issues) France, Transfer of ashes Frenc
GALLERY: Pierre Albuisson
2020 French Southern and Antarctic Territories Marine Life Octopus and squid Engraved by Pierre Albuisson
DATABASE: John Francis Eugene Prud'homme
STAMPS 1860 New Brunswick, 1c definitivem (3) Nova Scotia, Definitives 8.5c, 10c and 12.5c, retouching of portrait (2) 1863 Nova Scotia, Frame of definitives 1c to 5c (1) Notes: 1) Essay Proof Journal Vol 5 No 2 2) postagestampguide.com 3) stampsandcanada.com You will find John Francis Eugene Prud'homme's biography HERE .
BOOK: Cinquantenaire de l'imprimerie des timbres-poste des PTT 1930-1980
To mark 50 years of the Swiss PTT's printing works, they produced a very luxuriously executed book, clothed in linen, in 1980. The book is split into two major chapters: the first dealing with the history of the printing works and the second with the various printing processes used to produce the Swiss stamps. The book is beautifully illustrated in full colour, with many design essays, master dies and printing material being shown and as such a very interesting book, even if you do not master French very well or at all. (Yes, the text is in French only.) Bonus: the book includes the only photograph (that I have ever found at least) of the engraver Max Müller, working on the stamp marking that same 50th anniversary. Further bonus: the Swiss PTT also produced a souvenir sheet which features an unadopted stamp design from the early 1960s. The souvenir sheet was engraved by Karl Bickel Jr and it is included in the booklet, so if for nothing else, it would be great tryi
CHAT: Another one bites the dust
Oh dear, and it all started so innocently with me just wondering why the Czech Republic would honour one of its greatest engravers with a stamp printed in lithography. That's right. On 20 January of this year, the Czech Republic issued a stamp honouring their designer/engraver Bedrich Housa. Which is marvellous. But if you want to do justice to such a wonderful artist, you would think they would opt for a printing method which is traditionally seen as the most classy, beautiful and artistic; that's right: you would create a hand-engraved, recess-printed stamp. But no, offset it was and offset it would be. Which left me fuming a little. Little did I know it would get worse. 'Coz when I mentioned this to my stamp buddy in the Czech Republic, he replied with news which, to say the least, is rather devastating: the Czech Republic has stopped producing engraved, recess-printed stamps from 1 January 2020! I have hardly recovered from Scandinavia falling off the radar and
BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Ives Pease
Joseph Ives Pease was born in Norfolk, VA, in the United States, on 9 August 1809. He initially showed talent as an inventor but in the early 1830s he went to New York City to study drawing at the National Academy of Design. For many years after, Pease engrave portraits for the National Portrait Gallery. In 1858, Pease came to work for the American Bank Note Company. In 1865, Charles Jeens had submitted essays for the cod and seal definitives for Newfoundland, but eventually it was Joseph Pease who got to engrave the stamps. The 1870 'busts' definitives of the United States included a portrait of Franklin engraved by Pease. He had probably started work on a portrait in September 1869, but his first engraving was of a bust facing right. It was trialled with various frames but then Pease was asked to engrave another portrait, this time facing left. That portrait was eventually used on the 1c value. Joseph Pease passed away on 2 July 1883. You will find Joseph Ives Peas
BIOGRAPHY: Didier Guedron
Didier Guedron, born in 1950, was interested in drawing from an early age. After leaving his secondary education, he joined the engraving classes of the Ecole Estienne in Paris, where he was initially taught by René Cottet, and from 1968 by another stamp engraver, Pierre Forget. Guedron graduated in 1970 and went on to attend the School of Fine Arts in Paris, but he had to leave after a year, to join the French forces in Germany. There he met his wife. In 1973, Guedron was contacted by his former master Forget, who told him that there was a vacancy at the French stamp printing works after their engraver Jean Miermont had just retired, and whether he would be interested. Guedron was accepted and the couple moved back to France. Guedron's philatelic output started off impressively, with no less than six stamps in five designs being issued in 1973, for various former French territories. First of those, the 150k value from the Laos World Meteorological Organisation set, depicting
GALLERY: Joseph keller
1945 Surinam Definitive Gold mining company Die proof Engraved by Joseph Keller
BIOGRAPHY: Tassos (Anastasios Alevizos)
Anastasios Alevizos, better known simply as Tassos, was born on 25 March 1914 at Lefkochora in Greece. His artistic path started very early with painting classes and from the age of 16 he attended the Athens School of Fine Arts. Sculpture and painting took centre stage first, but print making took over as the main interest until his graduation in 1939. During World War II, Tassos developed his more militant side, being often involved in designing (illegal) propaganda material. After the war, Tassos immersed himself even more in the art scene, illustrating books, creating many woodcuts and, in the 1950s and 1960s, he became a rather prolific stamp designer as well, for both Greece and Cyprus. While most of his designs were executed either by letterpress or in lithography, there is the odd recess-printed issue as well. For only one of those, Tassos is credited with the engraving as well as the design. This is the 1965 Greek set marking the birth centenary of the statesman Veniz