J. Friedrich Fickenscher

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J. Friedrich Fickenscher (* in the 18th or 19th century ; † in the 19th or 20th century ) was a German engraver , engraver , stone cutter and medalist .

life and work

1 Gutegroschen , Michel number 1;
Design by Anton Jürgens ; Fickenscher printing plates; Print: Culemann

According to Franz Rudolf Zankl , the stamps of the engraver and stone cutter JF Fickenscher were used for the minting of the Royal Hanoverian Golden Medal of Honor for Art and Science .

In the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover , Fickenscher engraved the stamps for the medal for “Rescue from Danger” , which was first issued in 1846 under King Ernst August .

Based on designs by Anton Jürgens , Fickenscher engraved the printing plates for the first postage stamps for domestic postal delivery, which left the printing presses in the Culemann printing house and were used for the first time on November 30, 1850 for 1 Gutegroschen (Ggr.) In black on gray-blue came. At that time, according to the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover from 1850 , Fickenscher was living in the house at Breite Straße 22 with the occupational details of engraver and stone cutter . For the first stamps in Hanover, Fickenscher was occasionally referred to as the court coat of arms painter.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o.V. : Hanover / Briefmarken / Briefmarken on the arge-hannover.de site of the Hanover and Braunschweig Working Group in the Briefmarken-Club Hannover von 1886 eV in the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten eV [ undated ], last accessed on March 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover from 1850, p. 84; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  3. ↑ a b Compare the magazine of the historical association for Lower Saxony , 1902, p. 27; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl: Medal of Honor for Art and Science. In: Hanover Archive . Sheet K 34.
  5. ↑ According to information from the German National Library (DNB) in Max Knopff: 100 years of the Hanover stamp. In: Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation . Volume 79, 1951, No. 1, p. 20; compare the information from the DNB
personal data
SURNAME Fickenscher, J. Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, gem cutter and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century or 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 19th century or 20th century