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Philatelic Series CD 9
POSTAGE STAMPS IN THE MAKING
1916 1st edition, over 250 illustrations.
by Fred Melville, 198 pages
A short preface to the first 10 chapters: There is much GB content but also detailed sections on printing techniques only found on some Commonwealth and world issues. Melville covers in depth, the production of paper for postage stamps, including the (Dickinson) thread paper used for the Mulready envelopes and GB embossed. The treatment of paper including contraction problems, variation, blue safety paper, chalk surfaced paper & other coatings used throughout the world. How watermarks are made & an illustrated catalogue of watermark designs. Stamp design - art as a forgery preventative. Different types of printing employed - line engraving, surface printing, embossing, lithography. The Perkins process of line engraving - Rose engine, dies, transfer roll, replacing the stars with letters & adding plate numbers to the early stamps of GB, the transfer process, laying down & aligning the plate, resulting error & varieties &c.
Please see list of contents and further product details below. Sample pages shown in the pictures.
List of contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Paper making
Chapter 2: Dickinson 'Silk Thread' paper
Chapter 3: The treatment of paper during and after manufacture for special purposes
Chapter 4: Technical and philatelic terms associated with paper
Chapter 5: Watermarks and their arrangement
Chapter 6: The artist's design
Chapter 7: A biographical index of artists and engravers
Chapter 8: Engraving and printing
Chapter 9: Line-engraving: The Perkins Bacon process
Chapter 10: Other processes of preparing intaglio plates
Chapter 11: Printing from intaglio plates
Chapter 12: Lithography and kindred processes
Chapter 13: Typography
Chapter 14: The construction of plates for typographic printing
Chapter 15: Protective coatings for stamp plates
Chapter 16: Technical difficulties in typography
Chapter 17: Common head-types and key plates
Chapter 18: Typographical presses and machines
Chapter 19: Embossing
A FULLY TEXT SEARCHABLE & PRINTABLE PDF edition on CD
...suitable for all computers & electronic book readers.
This work is Copyright (c) James Paul Marston 2010. Published by J&H Books. See eBay VeRO.
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