Cornelis Arend Mechelse werd in 8 februari 1898 in Voorschoten geboren en overleed in 1969.
Hij werkte vanaf 1923 bij de Koninklijke Joh. Enschede en Zonen als graveur en ontwerper van postzegels en papiergeld (onder andere een fl 50,-biljet). Daarnaast ontwierp hij ook bankbiljetten voor Suriname en Nieuw-Guinea.
Hij werd aanvankelijk plv. afdelingshoofd Papiergeld in 1928 en later in 1944 hoofd.
When the Allied Forces were liberating Belgium in September 1944, the Dutch started hoping that they too would soon be liberated. The idea of a Liberation stamp was secretly mooted. Mechelse worked on a design and an engraving, camouflaging it by making it seem it was an Anti tubercoulosis stamp. The wording would later be changed to mark the liberation. Further changes to the die include the changing of format from landscape to portrait stamp. The basic design theme, the Dutch Lion slaying the Serpent, remained the same throughout this whole process, though.
Mechelse’s work would mainly concern banknote work, as a designer. But after his engraved Liberation stamp, he engraved two more values, of the annual Cultural and Social Relief Fund issues, issued in 1948 and 1951.
In early 1951, Mechelse was asked to assist Jean Paul Vroom in making an acceptable die for new Dutch airmail stamps. Jan Bons, the designer of those airmail stamps, had recommended his good friend Vroom, with whom he usually worked. Whilst both printer and postal authorities had misgivings from the start, they did decide to give Vroom a chance, seeing that there was no tight deadline to be met. Vroom worked on various dies throughout 1950, and even received some assistance from Enschedé’s in house engraver Cornelis Mechelse, but it was to no avail. In April 1951 it was decided to have the stamps engraved by another of Enschedé’s engravers, Willem van Dijk.
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Mechelse, Cornelis Arend
Cornelis Arend Mechelse werd in 8 februari 1898 in Voorschoten geboren en overleed in 1969.
Hij werkte vanaf 1923 bij de Koninklijke Joh. Enschede en Zonen als graveur en ontwerper van postzegels en papiergeld (onder andere een fl 50,-biljet). Daarnaast ontwierp hij ook bankbiljetten voor Suriname en Nieuw-Guinea.
Hij werd aanvankelijk plv. afdelingshoofd Papiergeld in 1928 en later in 1944 hoofd.
When the Allied Forces were liberating Belgium in September 1944, the Dutch started hoping that they too would soon be liberated. The idea of a Liberation stamp was secretly mooted. Mechelse worked on a design and an engraving, camouflaging it by making it seem it was an Anti tubercoulosis stamp. The wording would later be changed to mark the liberation. Further changes to the die include the changing of format from landscape to portrait stamp. The basic design theme, the Dutch Lion slaying the Serpent, remained the same throughout this whole process, though.
Mechelse’s work would mainly concern banknote work, as a designer. But after his engraved Liberation stamp, he engraved two more values, of the annual Cultural and Social Relief Fund issues, issued in 1948 and 1951.
In early 1951, Mechelse was asked to assist Jean Paul Vroom in making an acceptable die for new Dutch airmail stamps. Jan Bons, the designer of those airmail stamps, had recommended his good friend Vroom, with whom he usually worked. Whilst both printer and postal authorities had misgivings from the start, they did decide to give Vroom a chance, seeing that there was no tight deadline to be met. Vroom worked on various dies throughout 1950, and even received some assistance from Enschedé’s in house engraver Cornelis Mechelse, but it was to no avail. In April 1951 it was decided to have the stamps engraved by another of Enschedé’s engravers, Willem van Dijk.
