MORE ON BANKNOTE ENGRAVER ROBERT SAVAGE

Gene Hessler writes:

Savage is listed in my book The Engraver's Line (TEL), however, his year of death is 1943. Savage gave up his supervisory position to Edwin Gunn in the mid-1920s, but continued to engrave for ABNCo to the time of his death. Savage is also mentioned in Mark Tomasko's Images of Value, The Artwork Behind US Security Engraving 1830s-1980s.

John Lupia writes:

As a fellow art historian and admirer of Alphonse Mucha here is a biography on Robert Savage, the foremost engraver in American history.

Robert Savage is one of the most distinguished American engravers of all time. He engraved postage stamps for several countries, bank notes and paper money for more than 31 countries, and corporate bonds, and stock certificate vignettes during his tenure as an engraver - becoming Chief Engraver of the Picture Engraving Department of the American Bank Note Company (ABNC).

To read the complete article, see: SAVAGE, ROBERT (https://sites.google.com/a/numismaticmall.com/www/numismaticmall-com/savage-robert)

Image courtesy Mark Tomasko

Mark Tomasko writes:

Robert Savage (1868-1943) is widely considered the finest bank note picture engraver of the twentieth century. He worked at American Bank Note Company for 52 years, from 1891 to his death in 1943. He was head of the picture engraving department at ABN in the early twentieth century but gave up the title in 1923 to Edwin Gunn, his longtime colleague (and almost his equal) though he continued to engrave for American to the end of his life. He never retired.

Some of his best portraits include Sun Yat-sen, appearing on countless Chinese bank notes; the gypsy girl on the Mexican 5 peso note of 1925 into the 1930s; Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg on notes from the 1930s-1940s; Slavia on the Czech 100 korun note; and the vignette "France" from artwork by A. E. Foringer. There are countless other fine engravings. For a lengthy list of some of his work, see Gene Hessler's The Engraver's Line and the accompanying supplement.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BANKNOTE ENGRAVER ROBERT SAVAGE INFO SOUGHT (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n53a13.html)

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