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Swedish stamp by Piotr Naszarkowski

A high-value stamp from 1991 showing Drottningholm palace, home to the Royal family.

 

Piotr Jerzy Naszarkowski is a Polish engraver. He has been living in Sweden since 1989. He has engraved on many supports: book illustrations, banknotes, postage stamps, etc.

 

Born in 1952 in Warsaw, Poland, he graduated in 1980 from the Fine Art school of Warsaw. From 1978 to 1980, he worked as stage designer for the Guliwer puppet theatre. In 1980 he started working for the Polish television. He quit it next year with another artists to protest the proclamation of the martial law after Solidarność union's strike.

 

Naszarkowski found a place at the Polish Banknote Printing House where he was taught the art of engraving on copper and steel. He became well-known when his ex-libris Lucas Cranach was printed in Belgium.

 

His first engraved postage stamp was issued in 1985. His 99th and 100th stamps were issued in September 2005 for the Greta Garbo joint issue between Sweden and the United States.

 

Source: Wikipedia

 

Catalog numbers:

Facit # 1679

Scott # 1877

 

Also a photo of mine of the same palace.

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Uploaded on June 13, 2021
Taken on March 22, 1991