Science themed covers & stamps

clif hiker · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2012 07:16:58 am

received these today ...

pretty sure this is the only US stamp with a trilobite ...

enjoy the juxtaposition of the microscope with the telescope ... and on a Zeiss cover (well ... they ARE Zeiss stamps after all)

clif hiker · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2012 02:13:33 am

a few more ... my main theme at present is paleontology/fossils (specifically trilobites) and scientific instruments, i.e. microscopes, telescopes, navigation instruments (sextants etc) ...

here's a FDC (along with a block I picked up somewhere) of the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palomar_Observatory

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 00:23:37 am

clif hiker - Great topic! Here is my first contribution: The La Silla Paranal Observatory, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Chile on April 25, 1973, Scott No. 436.

- nethryk

clif hiker · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 01:31:00 am

nethryk wrote:

clif hiker - Great topic! Here is my first contribution: The La Silla Paranal Observatory, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Chile on April 25, 1973, Scott No. 436.

- nethryk

Engraved science stamps!! I'll be on the lookout for those ...

here's one that has probably been shown before ... everybody's favorite engraver ..
Switzerland, 1997, PAUL KARRER AND ALFRED NOBEL, Sc# 1004-05

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 02:27:22 am

Here is an image of a semi-postal stamp featuring a portrait of French pharmacist and chemist Nicolas Louis Vauquelin (1763-1829) in his laboratory, designed by Albert Decaris, engraved by Claude Hertenberger, and issued by France on May 25, 1963 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Vauquelin's birth, Scott No. B372, Y&T No. 1373. Scientific note: In 1798 Vauquelin discovered the element beryllium by extracting it from an emerald (a beryl variety) and reducing the beryllium chloride with potassium in a platinum crucible.

- nethryk

PS: clif hiker - Please note that the Chile observatory stamp I posted above is not intaglio engraved.
PPS: I once visited Mount Palomar; but for some reason they wouldn't let me play with any of the 'scopes.

clif hiker · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 03:15:38 am

lithogravure is the same as lithograph?

that Decaris stamp is very attractive ... he designed lots of great stamps!

it would be hard to visit a place like Palomar ... and not get to touch. I have a small telescope and on the rare occasions I actually get things located and focused ... I vow to buy (or at least visit and use) BIGGER telescopes. I love looking and seeing things we can't see otherwise ... I get almost equally excited about microscopes.

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 03:36:04 am

clif hiker - Yes; the printing process is also often called "offset." Unfortunately for engraved stamp collectors, this process is commonly used on many of the stamps issued nowadays.

- nethryk

clif hiker · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 02:37:58 am

I've been learning quite a bit about engraving/etching ... reading The History of Engraving & Etching by Arthur M. Hind ... it's a bit dry, but still interesting ... thanks for the encouragement nethryk!!

Anyhow, found this stamp in my science collection and posted it over on the "engraved beauties" thread, but figured it also belonged here ...

Saar 1949; microscope and Saarland University

clif hiker · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 04:26:45 am

clif hiker wrote:

I've been learning quite a bit about engraving/etching ... reading The History of Engraving & Etching by Arthur M. Hind ... it's a bit dry, but still interesting ... thanks for the encouragement nethryk!!

Anyhow, found this stamp in my science collection and posted it over on the "engraved beauties" thread, but figured it also belonged here ...

Saar 1949; microscope and Saarland University

edited to add ... apparently NOT engraved ... I'll get it right eventually

joelk · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 06:43:46 am

Clif hiker,

I'm one of those line engraving fans, and I must say you should not feel bad about the misidentification of the printing technique for this one.

When I saw your post, I was also convinced it was a line engraved stamp, because of its style, and was really surprised to see it was made in photogravure when I checked in the Michel catalog.

I suspect it is indeed based on an engraving, but the printing technique used was photogravure.

So you are not alone.

On another note, this is a great thread. And I will immediately add to it...

This Belgian set of 1942 celebrates scientists and inventors.

All nine stamps of this set are based on engravings made by Emile Renard, but for the first four, the printing plates were made in photogravure, while the last five were made through the classical line engraving process:

nethryk · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 01:23:54 am

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (1685-1724) was a Roman Catholic priest and a naturalist born in the Portuguese colony of Brazil who was noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design. Here is an image of an engraved airmail stamp depicting Bartolomeu Gusmão demonstrating his airship ("aerostat") during a public exhibition he gave before the Royal Court in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon, Portugal on August 8, 1709, designed after artwork by Brazilian painter Bernardino de Souza Pereira (1895-1985), and issued by Brazil on October 23, 1944 to publicize the "Week of the Wing," Scott No. C60.

- nethryk

clif hiker · **Posted:** Wed Oct 17, 2012 22:42:26 pm

One of the subjects that I teach is Zoology. I take several annual trips to the gulf coast to collect and study marine life. So... I was sorting through my stacks last evening and came across this set that I had purchased some time ago ... shells and stuff on stamps are common enough, but I found this set particularly attractive.

Netherlands 1967 semi-postal set (sorry my catalog is at home so I don't have the Scott #'s)

nethryk · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2012 00:40:11 am

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (1863-1943) was a Swiss and French physician and bacteriologist. He was the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague, which was later renamed in his honor (Yersinia pestis). Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Yersin surrounded by symbols of biological science, designed by Vietnamese artist Bùi Trang Chước (1915-1992), printed by lithography (Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, Hanoi), and issued for use in the former French colony of Indochina in 1943, Scott No. 235, plus a photo portrait of a considerably younger (and more hirsute) Alexandre Yersin, taken in 1893.

- nethryk

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Oct 25, 2012 00:16:11 am

Glowing in the dark: Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) was a French-Polish physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Marie Curie and a bowlful of radium, designed and engraved by Jean Pheulpin, and issued by France on October 23, 1967 to commemorate the scientist's birth centenary, Scott No. 1195, Y&T No. 1533, plus a photo of Curie circa 1920.

- nethryk

nethryk · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2012 00:42:23 am

The Nançay Radio Telescope and distant galaxies, designed and engraved by Claude Durrens, and issued by France on June 8, 1963 to publicize the radio astronomy observatory located 3 km north of the town of Cher in central France, Scott No. 1067, Y&T No. 1362.

- nethryk

nethryk · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 01:25:00 am

Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884) was a German-speaking Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the science of genetics. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Mendel contemplating his discoveries, designed by Adalbert Pilch, combined engraved by Rudolf Toth and photogravure, and issued by Austria on January 5, 1984 to commemorate the centenary of the scientist's death, Scott No. 1264, plus an undated photo of Mendel.

- nethryk

nethryk · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2012 03:02:23 am

Schack August Steenberg Krogh (1874-1949) was a Danish professor of zoophysiology who contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing the Krogh Principle. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Krogh and a depiction of the scientist at work in his lab, designed by Swedish artist Lennart Forsberg, engraved by Arne Wallhorn, and issued by Sweden on November 18, 1980 to commemorate Krogh's 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle, Scott No. 1342, Facit No. 1147, plus an undated photo of Krogh which was probably a model for this stamp's design.

- nethryk

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 08:48:57 am

French chemists Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842) and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795-1887) collaborated to isolate several important compounds. Here is an image of a stamp honoring Pelletier and Caventou for their discovery of quinine (which has anti-malarial properties) in 1820, designed and engraved by Claude Haley, and issued by France on March 12, 1970, Scott No. 1268, Y&T No. 1633.

- nethryk

figmente · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 14:14:41 pm

This stamp shows a clerk from the Swiss patent office, issued to mark the centennial of his best known publication.

nethryk · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 01:57:32 am

Here are images of the two EUROPA stamps in a set featuring likenesses of famous scientists, designed by Eros Donnini, combined engraved and lithography, and issued by Italy on May 2, 1983, Scott Nos. 558 & 559.

- nethryk

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and a telescope.

Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC), Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer, and an Archimedes' screw pumping water.

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2013 03:54:10 am

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist, best known for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp depicting Dr. Pasteur, designed and engraved by Jacques Gauthier, and issued by France on October 6, 1973, Scott No. B468, Y&T No. 1768, plus a portrait of Pasteur taken by French photographer Pierre Lamy Petit (1832-1909).

- nethryk

Enginerd · **Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2013 14:21:46 pm

figmente wrote:

This stamp shows a clerk from the Swiss patent office, issued to mark the centennial of his best known publication.

Wow...I love this stamp. Switzerland has a lot of great science-themed stamps due to its rich history.

nethryk · **Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2013 23:46:48 pm

"Genetic engineering," printed by lithography, and issued by Israel on January 26, 1988, Scott No. 980.

- nethryk

Luceelu · **Posted:** Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:14:20 pm

Enginerd wrote:

Wow...I love this stamp. Switzerland has a lot of great science-themed stamps due to its rich history.

Took the words right out of my mouth!

I shall follow this thread with much interest - science is one of the main themes I collect

nethryk · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2013 23:29:55 pm

The Ondřejov Observatory is the principal observatory of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Here is an image of a stamp depicting the observatory and a distant galaxy, with an inset showing the observatory's telescope, designed by Czech graphic artist Jaroslav Lukavský (1924-1984), engraved by Ladislav Jirka, and issued by Czechoslovakia on August 22, 1967 to publicize the 13th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, held in Prague, Scott No. 1489.

- nethryk

figmente · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2013 16:05:52 pm

A very popular astronomy set.

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Feb 07, 2013 00:20:48 am

Comet Arend–Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956 by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland. Here is an image of a stamp depicting the comet and a telescope, designed by Belgian artist Oscar Hector Bonnevalle (1920-1993), combined engraved by Constant Spinoy and photogravure, and issued by Belgium on May 28, 1966 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the discovery and to publicize the Royal Observatory of Belgium, Scott No. 669.

- nethryk

figmente · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 13:39:26 pm

1979 Set promoting the study of science from childhood.

nethryk · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 00:52:07 am

André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836), French physicist and mathematician, is called the "father of electrodynamics." The unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a profile portrait of Ampère and a depiction of an ampere balance, designed and engraved by Michel Monvoisin, and issued by Monaco in November 1975 for the bicentenary of Ampère's birth, Scott No. 1001, plus an image of an engraved portrait (1825) of Ampère.

- nethryk

SailorTzipi · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 01:18:24 am

British first day cover.

Israeli set.

Girish Vaidya · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 18:55:12 pm

Found this while digging out an old box, cover with a stamp of a physist -

its on a cover and the top left edge is slightly damaged, but quite a nice cover and has a pictorial cancellation also.

nethryk · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 00:34:47 am

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), plus an attached label depicting his heliocentric system and a view of Toruń, his home town, designed and engraved by Hungarian artist and engraver Mihály Füle (1914-2005), and issued by Hungary on February 19, 1973 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Copernicus's birth, Scott No. 2218.

- nethryk

Luceelu · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:13:47 am

SailorTzipi wrote:

British first day cover.

This is magnificent! Such beautiful stamps - and I love the galaxy-shaped cancellations.

nethryk · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2013 02:33:47 am

Christopher Hansteen (1784-1873) was a Norwegian geophysicist, astronomer and physicist, best known for his mapping of Earth's magnetic field. Here are images of the two stamps in a set honoring Hansteen, designed and engraved by Knut Løkke-Sørensen, and issued by Norway on April 10, 1984 to commemorate the bicentenary of the scientist's birth, Scott Nos. 839 & 840, Facit Nos. 937 & 938.

- nethryk

World map showing magnetic meridians.

Portrait of Christopher Hansteen.

nethryk · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2013 01:33:24 am

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) was a French author who popularized science and who also served as Perpetual Secretary to the French Academy of Sciences. In 1935, the lunar crater Fontenelle was named after him. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Fontenelle and a depiction of a meeting room in the Academy, designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon, and issued by France on June 4, 1966 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Academy, Scott No. 1159, Y&T No. 1487.

- nethryk

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Apr 18, 2013 00:14:28 am

Joseph Fraunhofer, ennobled in 1824 as Ritter von Fraunhofer (1787-1826), was a German optician and physicist known for the discovery of the dark absorption lines known as Fraunhofer lines in the sun's spectrum. Here is an image of a stamp featuring Fraunhofer's signature and a depiction of spectral absorption lines, designed by German graphic artist Ernst Kößlinger (1926- ), printed by lithography, and issued by Germany on February 12, 1987 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Fraunhofer's birth, Scott No. 1510, Michel No. 1313.

- nethryk

SailorTzipi · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 05:44:55 am

[/quote]
This is magnificent! Such beautiful stamps - and I love the galaxy-shaped cancellations.[/quote]

It's no doubt one of my favourite British overs

Sailer2002 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:03:08 pm

just received a few days ago

Sailer2002 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:06:39 pm

still wondering why my cover that I edited in photobucket is not longer edited when I paste it into SB.
I tried various times and find that the original looks edited on the page but when I copy the img code this is what I got. any ideas?

nethryk · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 23:44:45 pm

Surgical asepsis, or sterile technique, prevents contamination of an open wound, serves to isolate the operative area from the non-sterile environment, and maintains a sterile field for surgery. Octave Terrillon (1844-1895) developed surgical asepsis in his clinic in Paris. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Dr. Terrillon, a microscope, an autoclave, and some sterile surgical instruments, designed and engraved by Claude Hertenberger, and issued by France on April 13, 1957, Scott No. 823, Y&T No. 1097, plus a photo of Terrillon on a card postmarked on the first day of issue of the stamp.

- nethryk

Sailer2002 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2013 01:46:37 am

This piece of mail

Rockwell. Seems to have been used for a private use. The original return address is covered with one of those free labels from a charity group.

nethryk · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2013 22:45:24 pm

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) was a German physicist who in 1895 produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Here is an image of a stamp depicting an x-ray of a human hand, printed by lithography, and issued by Germany on March 9, 1995 to commemorate the centenary of Röntgen's scientific achievement, Scott No. 1885, plus a photo of the physicist.

- nethryk

nethryk · **Posted:** Wed May 08, 2013 00:40:00 am

Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA (the space agency of the United States) and was the USA's first space station. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting Skylab, designed and engraved by Michel Monvoisin, and issued by Chad on August 6, 1974, Scott No. C156.

- nethryk


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