American Bank Note Company Stamp Engravers

Jorge, I don't think you've shown this one before.

Ecuador Scott 368
Quite a colourful stamp for 1938



I have no idea of who the engraver was.

lithograving I have no information about the engravers of that stamp. But I do know something about the other one that was part of that commemoration (150th anniversary of the United States Constitution):

Engravers:
Robert Savage (1868-1943)
Arthur Christian Vogel (1896-1959)
Savage worked on the central image and Vogel on the frame and decorations except the letters

The black color was printed in engraving. Blue, red and yellow printed in offset-litho

In my old Michel Übersee it is noted that the American Bank Note Co.
printed four of the United Nations issues of 1958.
No engravers are mentioned but I'm sure jorgesurcl would have that.

UNITED NATIONS 1958
Scott 59-60

UNITED NATIONS 1958
Scott 61-62




Scott 65-66

lithograving :

The first ones (International Atomic Energy Agency) were engraved by :
John Hay (1908-1989).

I have no information about the others.

PANAMA - 1936
National Suit "La Pollera"
Printed by American Bank Note Co.

Engravers:
Vignette: Edwin H. Gunn (1876-1940)
Scroll: Joseph Keller (1903-1987)
Frame: Theodore A Hartman (1887---)

(Click on image to enlarge)

HAWAII - 1871
King Kamehameha-V
Printed by National Bank Note Co.
In 1879 National Bank Note Co. and Continental Bank Note Co. merged with American Bank Note Co.

Engravers:
Vignette: Alfred Jones (1819-1900)
Frame & Lettering: Douglas Stewart Ronaldson (1825-1902)

(Click on image to enlarge)

Here is one more United Nations pair printed by American Bank Note Co.

UNITED NATIONS 1958
Scott 67-68




Here is the page from Michel Katalog where I found the details.
Notice that the four 1959 issues were printed by the Canadian Bank Note Co
which at that time still had connections with American Bank Note.

One thing I've noticed is that most stamps printed for various countries by the
American Bank Note Co have the name of the company imprinted on the bottom.
Some do not.
This appears to be an advertisement for ABNco and I'm curious
did those countries get a discount in the print contract for allowing this?

Same applies to other stamp printers such as Courvoisier or
the Österreichische Staatsdruckerei.

ABNC almost always put its name printed on the bottom border of its products (stamps, banknotes, certificates, stocks, etc.). and they also printed it in the margins of the stamp sheets. But that began to change in the late 1940s.(for stamps)

About the UN stamps printed by Canadian Bank Note Co. that appears in your Michel catalog...

1959 General Assembly - Flushing Meadows, New York:
Vignette engraved by Yves Baril (1932----)
Frame & Lettering engraved by John F. Marsh


1959 Trusteeship Council
Engraved by Yves Baril (1932-----)

None of the stamps printed for Greenland by the American Bank Note Company in 1944 had the company's imprint in the margin. For example, SG14 / F16, a very nice polar bear:



This seems to me to be a rather dubious issue, because the stamps were sold to collectors in the USA six months before any of them arrived in Greenland, but Stanley Gibbons and FACIT both list them, so who am I to complain?

There are nine stamps in the set with six different designs ranging from harp seals and eider ducks to King Christian X, but I think this one is the prettiest.

In 1945, the stamps were re-issued with an an overprint (printed in red or blue by ABNC) to celebrate the liberation of Denmark, but I don't own any, so can't provide an illustration.

By 1946, supplies of stamps printed by H H Thiele of Copenhagen had resumed, so these are the ABNC's only issues for Greenland - so far.

Thanks for the info Jorge.

Here is another pair of the 1959 UN stamps printed by Canadian Bank Note.

Scott 75-76




The Stamp Engravers Blog has Yves Baril for the engraver

https://stampengravers.blogspot.com...il-yves.html

Canadian Bank Note Co also printed the UN Economic Commission for Europe issue
for the United Nations in 1959.
I dont know the engraver but since Yves Baril was the only engraver CBNC
had after the master engraver Silas Robert Allen died in a car accident in 1957
there is a good chance it was Baril.

Scott 71-72




IMO this bland,uninspiring design could have been printed
either offset/litho or photogravure and no one would have cared.
Then again Canadian Bank Note at that time only printed recess engraved stamps.

pjr...here is another one from the 1945 series.

GREENLAND - 1945
Eider Duck
Printred by American Bank Note Co..

Vignette engraved by Harold Osborn (1893-1968)

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GREENLAND - 1945
Huskies Sled
Printed by American Bank Note Co.

Vignette engraved by William Edgar Jung (1895-1950)

(Click on image to enlarge)