Liechtenstein 2019 Sculptures by Antico
- Label : "Liechtensteinische Post AG"; 2019, commemorative stamps of the issue "Princely treasures – Sculptures by Antico";
(issue of 3 stamps)
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1954-1956; Zumstein: No. 1913-1915
- Color : multicolored with gold and silver
- Watermark : none
- Nominal values : 1.30 – 1.70 – 2.20 CHF
- Postage validity : since 02 September 2019
- Designed by : Sylvia Ruppen (* 1949)
- Printed by : "NV Grafische Inrichting Johann Enschede en Zonen", Haarlam. (Netherlands)
- Print process : Offset printing (4-colors) + cold foil pressure gold or silver + mat laquer on luminescent paper PVA Tru White with 110 g/m²
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 11¾ : 12
- Print runs : 58,500 each
- Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without signature line) : 23.0 x 38.5 mm
Commemorative stamps of the issue "Princely treasures – Sculptures by Antico";
(issue of 3 stamps)
(all stamps with gold and silver in metallic pressure)
Stamps mint
Stamps postmarked
File:Liechtenstein 2019 Sculptures by Antico a1a.jpg Michel No. 1954, postmarked |
File:Liechtenstein 2019 Sculptures by Antico a1a.jpg Michel No. 1955, postmarked |
File:Liechtenstein 2019 Sculptures by Antico a1a.jpg Michel No. 1956, postmarked |
To the stamp motives
All sculptures by Il Antico in the style of the Italian Early Renaissance and are contemporary located in the "Princely Collections" of the "Liechtenstein Palais", Vienna
- 1.40 (CHF) : "Bust of a Youth" (created ca.1520, bronze with olive-brown patina and black lacquer, high 57 cm)
- 1.70 (CHF) : "Hercules with a skin of a lion" (crated ca. 1496, bronze, partial gilding and silvering) (A copy created in Antico‘s time is also showed in the "Frick Collection, New York")
- 2.20 (CHF) : "Equestrian statuette of Marcus Aurelius" (created 1500-1510, bronze, partial gilded, silver in incrustrations, high 39.0 cm)
