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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 1, 2013 1:18:22 GMT
Thank you Roos, it is a pretty amazing exhibition.
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 1, 2013 6:38:32 GMT
Here is a detail of the 1920 Cook for the Cook Islands. It is not my stamp - I found this image online. It's probably the best portrait of Cpt. James Cook that I have seen:
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 1, 2013 6:40:07 GMT
By the way, if anyone has better or more detailed scans or other examples of any of the stamps I mention or any other which are on topic, please feel free to post them, I would really appreciate it.
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 1, 2013 6:48:06 GMT
The 300 r for Brasil is also a borrowed image (Wikipedia Commons):
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 20, 2013 10:43:00 GMT
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 20, 2013 10:45:12 GMT
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 20, 2013 10:46:46 GMT
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firstfrog2013
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What I collect: BNA Liberia St Pierre U.S. Bolivia Turkey
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Aug 20, 2013 17:54:17 GMT
A mention also should go to the artist without whom engravers have no slate to work with.Here's my title page from Arthur Szyk who also designed stamp of Liberia.
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 20, 2013 22:10:05 GMT
I am sorry firstfrog you have lost me. As far as i know Arthur Szyk was a graphic artist, book illustrator and caricaturist; but never an engraver. "without whom engravers have no slate to work with" - implies to me that somehow stamp engraving started with Szyx, which it obviously didn't. Lovely title page though.
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firstfrog2013
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Aug 20, 2013 22:21:41 GMT
What i was trying to convey was the designer deserves their share of credit as well.Szyk was an artist and submitted stamp designs as well.His name is the only one I can remember,Other designers from around the world shared their talents with those fine engravers,to produce these little works of art.
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 21, 2013 0:34:34 GMT
I see I understand what you were saying, yes the designer was also very important. Often though the engraver him/herself did the designing as well.
Since the design was mostly done about eight times life size, I still feel that the real skill was in the engravers side as he/she had to produce these wonderful bits of art at a minute scale, often in conditions that pre-date modern optical equipment.
Also the designer could always correct any errors with an eraser or paint-over...there was no easy way of correcting of errors in engraving steel plates.
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 21, 2013 4:38:02 GMT
Sorry, the last Norway stamp I posted (3.50 K) multicoloured is probably lithographed and not engraved...still a pretty stamp though.
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 24, 2013 19:33:46 GMT
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 24, 2013 19:35:53 GMT
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