Janko Alexy

[Czechoslovakia] (b 1894/d 1970)

Janko Alexy was a painter and also a writer. He was awarded the title of "National Artist". After ending his education at the Lucenec High School , he spent some time working in a local pharmacy ... in 1919 he continued his studies in the Prague Visual Arts Academy and after graduation he worked as Drawing professor .. for 1927 on he devoted himself only to the Artistic Activity.. Janko  extensive work contains about 1,300 oils, pastels and drawings inspired by folk works, legends and landscapes and about 20 books , mainly dedicated to his childhood and youth personal experiences... 

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Biography and Photo

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Czechoslovakia 1948 "Centenary of Abolition of Serfdom" (1) [Photo] Sc(350)

Hugo Fleury

[Great Britain] (b 1893/d 1983)

I cannot find nothing about Hugo's Fleury Education...at the age of 30 he was a Waterlow and Son's Employee and designed stamps and Bank notes for several countries...

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Great Site about the Fleury Family

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Gambia 1935 "King George V Silver Jubilee" (4,1) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons, London)] Sc(125,...,128) [ This was a Common Design to many of the Empire States ]

Cayman Islands 1938 "Definitive series" (12,5,1) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons, London)] Sc(105,110)

Great Britain 1949 "Universal Postal Union" (4,4,1) [Photo] Sc(276,...,279)

[ Many updates are possible because Hugo Fleury was a common worker of a Big Company so his individuality as an Artist was somehow 'forgotten' with 'solo' benefit for the Company...why can't this knowledge of the individual designers and engravers of  the 'Big Company's '  in the 'early days'  be shared?? and those who have access to it, why can't they share it?? is it some kind of Treasure??? The world will end?? I'm a little tired of seeing  "Engraved by Waterlow and Sons," "Designed by De La Rue"...well , I use to say "donkey voices never reach the Heaven's" and that's what I'm doing now , just wasting words... ]

Boris Angelushev [ 1st Part (1938/1953) ]

[Bulgaria] (b 1902/d 1966)

"Boris Angelushev was born in Plovdiv. He learned the art of engraving from professor F. Shpigel and H. Mait and studied at the Berlin Art Academy ...He has made many illustrations, caricatures and stamps . Also drawn comics in the 1940s, but it is unknown for what publications."

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Biography

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Bulgaria 1938 "Agricultural Products" (20,10,4) [Photo] Sc(316,...,335)

Bulgaria 1939 "Bulgaria's Railways Jubilee" (4,4,4) [Photo] Sc(346,...,349) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Bulgaria 1940 "Recovery of the Dobrudja from Romania" (4,3,3) [Photo] Sc(360,...,363)

Bulgaria 1945 "Slav Congress" (3,1) [Litho] Sc(464,...,466)

Bulgaria 1945 "Liberty Loan" (8,4,3) [Litho] Sc(481,...,486)  [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Bulgaria 1945 "Arms" (11,8,2) [Typo] Sc(470,472,473)

Bulgaria 1946 "50th Anniversary of Postal Savings Bank" (4,4,1) [Typo] Sc(500)

Bulgaria 1946 "Red Cross" (8,4,4) [Typo] Sc(504,...,511)  [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Bulgaria 1946 "Bulgaria with the Allies" (11,9,2) [Typo] Sc(520,522)  [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Bulgaria 1946 "Referendum" (3,1) [Typo] Sc(534,...,536)

Bulgaria 1946 "Partisan Activities" (7,4,1) [Typo] Sc(539,543)

Bulgaria 1946 "Winter Relief" (8,4,1) [Typo] Sc(549,551)

Bulgaria 1948 "Treaty of Friendship with Romania" (2,2,1) [Photo] Sc(626)

Bulgaria 1948 "Birth Centenary of Hristo Botev (Poet)" (9,7,2) [Litho] Sc(640,642) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Bulgaria 1953 "80th Anniversary of the Execution of  V. Levsky" (2,2,2) [Photo] Sc(789,790)  [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Bulgaria 1953 "International Women's Day" (2,1) [Photo] Sc(796,797)

George R. Cox

[USA] (b?/d?)

It was hard to get credible information about George R. Cox... In the end , the 3 Hours I spent 'digging' in the Net ,allowed me to find his track... George Cox was the Chief Illustrator of the Bellport National Laboratory, so his passage through the world of Stamp Designing was brief  and a result of the usual National Stamp Designing Competition...

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"Mr. Cox invited to the White House"

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"Mr. Cox Goes to Washington"

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"Patent issued for BNL" 

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USA 1955 "Atoms for Peace" (1) [Engr (R.M. Bower)][Recess] Sc(1070)