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Douglas Feldwick 1860/1880 issues

mikwizzymikwizzy
in Stamps and Postal History
Can anyone add to the limited information about Douglas Feldwick, the engraver involved in the 1860/1880 issues?

He’s credited as the engraver of the 1c and 2c 1880 issues and probably also the other 1880 issues and the 1860 issues as well as the 1881 3c.

It’s thought he was an employee of Dando, Todhuneter & Smith in 1860 when they produced the first Liberia stamps but then operated independently from at least 1876 until at least 1882 at 16 Holborn, London.

There’s some biographical info on the LPS website (birth, death etc) but little else

Can you add to, or correct, what little we know?

Comments

  • MartinGilesMartinGiles
    Not really.

    In Gene Hessler, The International Engraver’s Line, 2nd edition [self-published; 2005) Feldman is credited with “Liberty”, but in the 1st edition (BNR Press: Port Clinton, OH; 1993) there is nothing.

    I assume that you have seen …
    Kathleen Wunderly, “As Liberia grew to nationhood, it needed stamps”
    Linn’s Stamp News, May 1st 2021,
    https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/as-liberia-grew-to-nationhood--it-needed-stamps.html

    … and know of the defaced proofs which bear the imprints “D. Feldwick Engr. 16 Holborn E.C.” and “Dando, Todhunter & Smith/Engravers and Lithographers/22 Gresham St. Bank/London”.
  • mikwizzymikwizzy
    Hi Martin

    thanks. I'm familiar with both of these. I've been able to confirm Feldwick's address using London trade directories

    Does Hessler cite any source or any more information?
    Cockrill speculates that given Feldwick's name appears on the 1c and 2c defaced die proofs for 1880 and the similarities of these to the 1860 designs he must also have engraved the latter while working at D,T&S around 1860
  • MartinGilesMartinGiles
    I do not have easy access to a copy of Hessler, although I know where I can see it again with some advance planning... but I am pretty sure that there was just the listing (and that I would have included any further leads in my notes). Sorry.
  • mikwizzymikwizzy
    Martin thanks anyway
  • mikwizzymikwizzy
    Well, not many takers on Feldwick

    How about Dando Todhunter & Smith who produced the first Liberia stamps?

    Someone must be able to add to what we know

    Thomas F. Todhunter, Richard J. Dando and John Henry Smith as partners in a business as booksellers and stationers at 22 Gresham St. in London.




  • TravisTravis
    I don't know much about DT&S but I do have this printer's imprint in the selvage of my pair of #2.

  • mikwizzymikwizzy
    edited April 30
    Thanks Travis
    Seems they started out as booksellers/stationers and branched out into engraving and then lithography. As far as I know in terms of stamps they only ever produced the first few sets of Liberia
    Wonder how they got the contract given they'd no track record in stamps
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