Collecting By Engraver

Thank you very much, jorgesurcl, for sharing your great engraved stamps! I enjoy each one of them and will be glad to see more from your album, Eli

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A set of semi-postal engraved stamps of famous paintings of Monaco Princes and Princesses, was issued by Monaco on December 10, 1942. The set has 15 stamps and I will show them in three parts. Here is the first group of them:

Rainier I of Monaco (1267–1314) was the first sovereign Grimaldi ruler of the area now known as Monaco, and the Lord of Cagnes, a town where in 1309 he established a stronghold, today known as the Château Grimaldi, painting by Eugène Charpentier. Engraved by Raoul Serres:

Charles II (1555 – 1589) was the eldest son of Honoré I (1522–1581) and Isabella Grimaldi (died 1583). He became Lord of Monaco on the death of his father in 1581 until his death in 1589, painting by Bernardin Mimault. Engraved by René Cottet:

Jeanne Grimaldi (1596 - 1620), daughter of Lord Hercules I of Monaco and Maria Landi and a sister of HSH Prince Honore II of Monaco. She died in childbirth in 1620 at age 24, painting by Bernardin Mimault. Engraved by Emile Henri Feltesse:

Charles Auguste de Goyon, Count of Gacé (1647-1729), was the French soldier, diplomat and Marshal of France from 1693 after which he was known as the Maréchal de Matignon. Engraved by Pierre Gandon:

Jacques I (1689–1751), Prince of Monaco from 1731 to 1733, Duke of Valentinois from 1716 until 1733, and Count of Thorigny. Engraved by Antonin Jean Delzers:

LaoPhil your posts, images and information are excellent. They are a delight for all those interested in the work of the great stamp engravers.

LUXEMBOURG - 1926 - Grand Duchess Charlotte
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engravers:
Vignette: Robert Savage (1868-1943)
Frame & Lettering: William Hartwick Maple (1872-1949)


1944 - Worked up by William Edgar Jung (1895-1950) and new frame & lettering engraved by William Hartwick Maple (1872-1949)

NICARAGUA - 1862
Maribios Volcanos
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engraver:
James David Smillie (1833-1909)

CHILE - 1904
Columbus
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engravers:
Vignette: Charles Skinner (1841-1932) - Die C-281
Frame & Lettering: Elmer Farrington

COLOMBIA - 1939
Portrait and background worked up from Die C-281 by:
Elie Timothée Loizeaux (1873-1956) and William Fraser Ford (1895-1962)
Frame & lettering engraved by T. Hartman

Here is the second group of the Monaco 1942 stamps show famous paintings of Princes and Princesses:

Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco (1697 – 1731), painting by the French painter Pierre Gobert (1662 – 1744), engraved by Gabriel-Antoine Barlangue:

Charlotte Grimaldi, Princess of Monaco, paintings by the French painter Pierre Gobert (1662 – 1744), engraved by Pierre Munier:

Prince Charles of Monaco, Count of Carladés (1722 –1749), a Monégasque prince. He was known as the Count of Carladés and the Count of Matignon. Engraved by Charles Mazelin:

Honore III (1720–1795), Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 1731 to 1793, painting by the Swiss painter Johann Melchior Wyrsch (1732 –1798). Engraved by Henri-Lucien Cheffer:

Honoré IV (1758–1819), Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 1814 to 1819, painting by J.A.M. Lemoyne (1752-1824). Engraved by Achille Ouvré:

HAITI - 1933
King's Gallery - Citadel
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engravers:
Vignette: Clifford Harold Dawson (1884-1944). Finished by Edwin H. Gunn (1876-1940)
Scroll/Frame: Carroll Stanley Mabie (1894-1944)

ECUADOR - 1947
Jesuit Church in Quito.
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engraved by: Joseph Keller (1903-1987)

Here is the third and last group of the Monaco 1942 stamps show famous paintings of Princes and Princesses:

Honoré V (1778 – 1841), Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois, painting by Marie Verroust. Engraved by Georges-Léo Degorce:

Florestan I (1785 - 1856), Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 1841 until his death, painting by by G. Dauphin. Engraved by Antonin Jean Delzers:

Charles III (1818 –1889), Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois, painting by François-Auguste Biard. Engraved by Georges-Léo Degorce:

Albert I (1848 – 1922), Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois. Engraved by Achille Ouvré:

Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850 –1922), a Scottish noblewoman who was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco by marriage to Albert, Hereditary Prince of Monaco. Engraved by Raoul Serres:

Here is the complete set of the above painting stamps:

Most of these paintings were issued years later on colorful large format stamps. They were all posted in the Monaco stamp engraver thread and Slania thread by lithograving and by me. Here are three stamps for example:

ECUADOR - 1939
Commemoration of the 1938 Bolivarian Games.
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engravers:
Vignette: Sydney F. Smith (1901-1942)
Frame & lettering: Charles Hector Milks (1895-1972)

GERMANY
Allied Occupation

1947 Leipzig Spring Fair

Engraver : Karl Wolf (1894 - 1966)

Designer : Erik Gruner (1881 - 1966) painted these watercolour scenes.


Printers : First printed on copper plates by Giesecke & Devrient,Leipzig
and reprinted early 1948 on steel plates by the State (Reichs) Printer, Berlin.
I believe these two were steel printings.

Scott B296 Michel 941
Leipzig is proclaimed as a Market Place, 1160






Scott B297, Michel 942
Protecting foreign merchants who are showing their goods, 1268





Here are pages with the Fair cancellations.







Pages from the 1947 Spring Fair to the 1949 Spring Fair are found in this little
booklet purchased at the Leipzig Fair.

HAITI - 1933
Vallières Battery
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engravers:
Vignette: William Edgar Jung (1895-1950)
Scroll/Ornaments: Carroll Stanley Mabie (1895-1944)

PHILIPPINES - 1952 (1962 with surcharge)
Fruit Tree Fund.
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engraver:
Vignette & Frame: John Hay (1908-1989)

PANAMA - 1936
IV-Spanish American Postal Congress.
Christopher Columbus.
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engravers:
Vignette: Sydney F. Smith (1901-1942)
Scroll.Ornaments: Joseph Keller (1903-1987)
Frame/Lettering: T. Hartman

PANAMA - 1939
Postal Tax stamp
Marie and Pierre Curie
Printed by American Bank Note Co.
Engravers:
Vignette: William Fraser Ford (1895-1962)
Scroll: Joseph Keller (1903-1987)
Frame-lettering: McAvoy

In subsequent years the dates/years were modified so that the stamps could be used again.

Those changes were made by engravers McAvoy and Honings