Postage stamps

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Postal Stationery from Czechoslovakia   



vynález hlubotisku  =  invented intaglio printing
1890 - 125 výročí - 2015  =  1890 - 125 anniversary - 2015

Karel Klič, Czech graphic artist and printer who in 1878 invented the most precise and commercially successful method of photogravure printing.  The date of 1890 refers to when Klíč worked out and tested ways to improve and simplify the transfer of half-tones. His goal was to reproduce complex pictures, not a simple pattern. In Great Britain, in 1890, he finally achieved the desired effect, using wiper-blade photogravure, a printing method that remains unsurpassed to this day.

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Issued on 20 April 1991 for the new complex of the Stamp Printing Company in Mechelen      (Belgium)



Two first Day Covers

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Issued on 6 November 2025 in a series 'Art of Intaglio'             (Monaco)

The Art Of Intaglio Postage Stamp Engraving

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Czesław Slania, stamp engraver 

Czesław Słania was a Polish postage stamp and banknote engraver.  According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Słania was the most skilled and prolific of all stamp engravers, with over 1000 stamps to his credit.

Issued on 22 October 2021                           Poland-Sweden Joint Issue





Issued on 12 August 2021      (Faroe Islands)



Issued on 12 August 2021      (Greenland)



Issued on 12 August 2021     (Denmark)



Issued on 16 June 2021      (Monaco)

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First Day Cover for the first stamp shown in post number 96 on page 7 of this thread