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It is also the process used for the production of mostBritish and many other stamps of the world. Perkins did not invent line engraving. He invented aprocess of transferring a steel engraving to another pieceof metal. This process plays such an important part inphilately that it is necessary for all collectors to have abasic understanding of it and the method of printingstamps from the plates. The first step of the process is to engrave the die.This is done on a "soft" block of steel by the mostskilled artisan. Every line and detail of the design ofthe proposed stamp is cut into the steel by hand tools-small sharp chisels known as burins or gravers. Theburin is held in the hand and worked carefully into thesteel to cut the line desired. In all cases the design isengraved in reverse on the die. |
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