G.W. GRANZOW Line Engraved Security Printings

November 23, 2021

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G.W. GRANZOW Line Engraved Security Printings

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Gary W. GRANZOW Line Engraved Security Printings: the Methods of Perkins Bacon 1790-1935. Banknotes and Postage Stamps.

Offered for sale by Ian & Yvonne Halford of 'Quathlamba Books' - for more information please contact them via email at y.halford@btinternet.com

Gary W. GRANZOW. Line Engraved Security Printings: the Methods of Perkins Bacon 1790-1935. Banknotes and Postage Stamps. London: The Royal Philatelic Society, 2012. Quarto (29 X 22cm. Weight 2 kgs). Hardback with dustcover over original boards.

Gary Granzow has taken a completely different and original approach to the research and understanding of the line engraving on steel and the security printing it made possible. While much focus is placed on the evolution of the line engraving in the UK, the findings apply to line engraving in general.

In the past, students have studied thousands of stamps and dated envelopes to deduce how the stamps were made and why they appear as they do. Rather than deduction, MrGranzow traces the development of engraving on steel, the mechanics of design transfer, hardening, inks, perforation and plate repair from 1790 to 1935 by studying primary sourcesand patents. Using this approach, he has made several basic discoveries and corrected a number of erroneous conclusions in the literature.

Mr Granzow made extensive use of the Perkins, Bacon archive and library at The Royal Philatelic Society London. The archive contains the ledgers and letters of Perkins, Bacon from 1822 to 1935. As the leading printing innovator of the 19th century, they printed the world's first postage stamp for the UK, and printed the first stamp for many other countries.

From original print records, Mr Granzow is able to present for the first time accurate tabulations of the sheets printed from each of the Penny Black plates.

He has based one chapter on his use of several antique lathes belonging to a fourth generation master silversmith. Further , through the study of patents relating to machines no longer in existence, he has been able to reconstruct how they worked.

In the words of Mr David Beech MBE FRPSL, Head of Philatelic Collections of The British Library, and the past President of The Royal Philatelic Society London, "Mr Granzow has carefully conducted his research and has written a book that will become a standard work on the subject ".

Half Title, Frontispiece, Title, Dedication, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Preface, Table of Contents. xxiv plus 321 pages text with supporting illustrations, colour and black and white, data etc,

Fine.

ISBN 978 0 900631 61 0

A fine copy of the first edition.

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