Mexico - avant garde printing techniques - 1916-now

[Rein]

The Austrian stamps displayed there were certainly printed as recess stamps, but the printer found a cheap way of producing printing plates.

Using all preparatory steps for photogravure and then finally mounting the plate in a recess printing press!

After the Austrian examples, other security printers did the same. The Joh. Enschedé & Sons, Haarlem, the Netherlands, have used the screened recess plates ever since the second World War. Mainly for stamps of Luxemburg!

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[Rein]

Another example is San Salvador 1954:




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Back to Mexico circa 1917:

recess:




screenless photogravure:




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Back to Mexico circa 1917:

recess:




screenless photogravure:




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The very first Mexican stamps printed on the Goebel photogravure reel-fed rotary press:









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Having known about the Nederlandsche Rotogravure Maatschappij in Leiden and their stamp production methods, I began to back-track the countries for which they had made essays [South Africa, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, etc.] - the pack of essays that somehow got lost after their merger with another printing company in Haarlem circa 1975. I had asked the Postal Museum in The Hague to make sure that nothing got lost in the NRM archives that might interest philatelists but nothing ever got saved

I have my own notes of the inventory that I need to publish someday...

Screenless photogravure that can be traced back immediately to the NRM is to be found not only in South Africa but also in Switzerland [1927-1928] and Vatican City [1929]!


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[Rein]

A great website for modern Mexican stamps with an emphasis on type of paper is the one below:

http://www.galeon.com/timbresdemexico/l ... nentes.htm




Remarkable is that the three series of definitives of which I have the intention to write about are not there:

1923-1935 Lugares y Monumentos
1934-1950 Monumentos
1950-1975 Arquitectura y Arqueologia

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[Rein]

Back to Mexico circa 1917:

recess:




screenless photogravure:




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Back to Mexico circa 1917:

I haven't seen the recess version of the 5p yet.

screenless photogravure:




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Back to Mexico circa 1917:

I haven't seen the recess version of the 20c Express yet.

screenless photogravure:




Who is that mythical figure??? Would you have notice him???

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[Rein]

Apart form the 1917 Próceres and the high values in the previous postings nothing much happened. The Airmails seemed to have been printed in recess - being rather valuable stamps they'd better afford some money!

But then it starts with the 1923-1935 Lugares y Monumentos




The vertical lines remind me of doctor blades'!

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The vertical lines remind me of doctor blades!

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The vertical lines remind me of doctor blades!

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The horizontal lines remind me of doctor blades!

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[Rein]

But is there a recess version as well?





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