Cécile Guillame

Cécile Guillame (18 July 1933 in Chassey-les-Montbozon – 4 August 2004) was the first woman who engraved French postal stamps.[1][2][3][4]

Cécile Guillame
Born(1933-07-18)18 July 1933
Chassey-les-Montbozon, France
Died4 August 2004(2004-08-04) (aged 71)
NationalityFrench
OccupationEngraver

During the 1950s, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Nancy and Paris where she chose the art of engraving.[5]

The first issued stamp she engraved was for Monaco in 1967 and represented a Cooper-Climax car that won the Grand Prix of Monaco. It was originally designed by Pierrette Lambert. Her first stamp for France was issued in 1973 and represented the Clos Lucé in Amboise.[6]

When she retired in 1993, she had engraved or designed more than three hundred stamps for France, French post offices in Andorra, Monaco, and French Overseas territories, as well as some African French-speaking countries.[7]

Cécile Guillame also created print and ceramics.[1]

References
  1. "40 timbres, blocs-feuillets, carnets français, souvenirs philatéliques ou timbres à date de Cécile Guillame". www.phil-ouest.com. Archived from the original on 2006-02-22. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  2. Jullien, Pierre (5 July 1999). "Paris fête le 150e anniversaire du timbre philatélique". Le Monde. p. 22.
  3. "Stamp Magazine Forum on Stamp Engravers and Engraving Techniques" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-12-18. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. Jullien, Pierre (2012-01-01). "Huguette Sainson, une pionnière de la philatélie au féminin, disparaît". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  5. Holley, D. R. M. (1995). Kedah and Perlis : their stamps and postal history 1887-1941. Malaya Study Group. [Southampton?]: Malaya Study Group. ISBN 0-9525118-0-0. OCLC 32699294.
  6. L'Union postale: journal publié par le Bureau international de l'Union postale universelle. Vol. 95. Switzerland: Bureau international de l'Union postale universelle. 1970.
  7. Catalogue de timbres de France 2019. Spink & Son. London: Spink & Son. 2018. ISBN 978-1-912667-05-5. OCLC 1055913912.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)


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