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The Portuguese series I have to show today was one of the main reasons I bought that small world collection two weeks ago...it is a large series, difficult to achieve in it's complete form ,if you go buying one or two stamps each time...
In the other hand, the stamps from Taiwan were already in the blog's "waiting room" for a long time.. so this is a good opportunity to show them as well...
This is a beautiful series commemorating the life of Camilo Castelo Branco (1825/1890) , one of the Greatest Portuguese Writers and Novelists...the Designs are of Alberto de Souza , with some works already shown here in the Blog,mainly for the Colonies of Angola and Mozambique ... the stamps are beautifully engraved by George R . Fairweather and John Augustus Charles Harrison... The series has 5 different designs , each one presented in 6 values and there is a 6th Design that only appears once (The 20$00 value) ; the illustrations show us different aspects of the life of Camilo, and also some characters of his most Famous work , "Amor de Perdição". It is a Great Series not only by the Excellency of the Designs ,engravings and printing , but also due to the quality of the paper... it is a highly recommendable series...!
There isn't a great tradition in Intaglio printing in Portugal, but during the 1800's , the country had some very good engravers specially in the "wood engraving"tradition,.. their work is not available in postage stamps,but some of the Casa da Moeda Engravers have work to show in our hobby,like Arnaldo Fragoso , Renato Araujo and others....a usual practice during the beginning of the XX Century and in the 40's , 50's and 60's was to contract foreign Distinct Engravers , that used foreign printing company's (perhaps by Contract specifications or just by imposition of the Artist...) and so we had several works of the 3 most famous British houses and also Curvoisier, the Vienna Osterreichisch Staatsdruckerei , the Haarlem NV. Joh Enschedé & Zon, etc... Maxime Ferré , Karl Seizinger, Karl Bickel, and other famous engravers have worked for the Portuguese CTT...
1925 "Centenary of the Birth of Camilo Castelo Branco" (31) [Des (Alberto de Souza)][Engr ( George R . Fairweather / Camilo's working Room )(John Charles Harrison / all the others)][Recess (Waterlow and Sons Limited, London)] Sc(346,...,376)
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Two more stamps of this series that commemorates some of the Leaders of Ancient China... The illustrations represent Emperor Shun and King Tang , respectively...
1972 "China Ancient Rulers" (8) [Engr (Pao Lyang-Yu)][Recess] Sc(1792,1794)
the stamps represent the National Symbol of Taiwan : The Plum blossom... nice engravings, once more..
1979/1985 "Plum Blossom" (7) [Des (Chang chi-Ping)][Recess] Sc(2154,2155,2156)
A stamp representing Hsu Hsi-Lin...
1988 "Famous Chinese Revolutionaries" (1) [Recess] Sc(2631)
very nice series, with great illustrations and a good printing...
1991 "International Camping and Caravanning Federation Rally, Fulung Beach" (4) [Litho] Sc(2807,2810)
I don't know why, but I like these illustrations...
Now is the moment I would prefer not to have, because I will not say beautiful things about Japan's stamps... As You all know I like very much the stamps from Japan, but in recent times "Childish" designs invaded their stamps, and I really don't like it...there must be a reason for that and I will not question it, but I have my "tastes" and I prefer to have in my memories the Great and Beautiful Japanese stamps ( this is just a small remark , having nothing to do with Taiwan stamps...)...
1992 "Children's Games (2nd Series)" (4) [Des (Kao Szu-Sheng)][Litho] Sc(2840,...,2843)
nice designs and engravings.. I think there is too much white space in the design.. perhaps some clouds would be perfect...
1992 "Stone Lions From Lugouqiao Bridge" (4) [Des (Lee Kwang-Chi)][Miss chen Yu-Ling $5.00)(Chu Hann-yih)][Recess] Sc(2852,2853,2855)
Two series focusing in the Oriental tradition of the Lucky Animals...
1993 "Lucky Animals (1st Series) 3.50, 10.00" (4) [Des (Lin Pan-sung)][Litho] Sc(2885,2887)
1993 "Lucky Animals (2nd Series) 1.00, 19.00" (4) [Des (Lin Pan-sung)][Litho] Sc(2920,2923)
Well, I should now work a while in my other blog , because it is stopped for a long time , without any activity...You know, my mind need "fuel" to work, and if sometimes, I've got enough to ignite some parts of my life , others rest cold , without the needed flame to ensure the new desired "start"...
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