Printing Postage Stamps by Line Engraving
By: [by] James H. Baxter. Reproduced, with additional material, from volumes 51 and 52 of the American philatelist.
Edition: Revised, January 1981
Series: American philatelist handbook. Series 1939,; no. 1, whole no. 5
Publisher: The American philatelic society
Published: 1939
Place of publication: [Denver]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Engraving -- Printing.; Engraving -- Technique.; Postage-stamps.
Notes: "This first edition consists of 550 serially numbered copies, of which this is no. 256."
Table of contents: title: Engraving
pagenum: 3
class: section
label: One; label: I
pagenum: 3
title: Introduction; label: II
pagenum: 11
title: Preparing Models and Transfering Designs to Dies; title: Engraving Dies by Hand
pagenum: 18
label: III; title: Machine Engraving
pagenum: 32
label: IV; title: Special Treatment of Dies, Proving and Hardening
pagenum: 40
label: V; label: Two
pagenum: 47
title: Plate Making; title: Producing the Relief Die
pagenum: 47
label: VI; title: Transferring the Design to the Printing Plate
pagenum: 53
label: VII; title: Double Transfers and Relief Varieties
pagenum: 64
label: VIII; label: IX
pagenum: 76
title: Defective Plates and Methods of Correction; label: X
pagenum: 86
title: Plate and Marginal Markings; label: XI
pagenum: 95
title: Finishing Printing Plates; title: Hardening, Plating and Electrolytic Plates
pagenum: 103
label: XII; label: Three
pagenum: 111
title: Printing; title: Paper Wetting and Hand Roller Presses
pagenum: 111
label: XIII; label: XIV
pagenum: 120
title: Flat Plate Power Presses and Bicolored Stamps; label: XV
pagenum: 134
title: Rotary Press (Curved Plate) Printing; label: XVI
pagenum: 143
title: Gumming, Perforating and Finishing; label: XVII
pagenum: 156
title: Checking, Accoounting and Administration; pagenum: 159
label: Index