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EXPLANATORY
NOTES
 The generic
entries for each country below are in the
order: Main
Source(s) of Information, General
Printing Articles and
General
Dummy / Testing Type Material
Articles.
These
entries are then followed by printer name
and, where there are bibliographic references
to list for an individual company,
they appear in date of publication order,
with material of unknown date appearing
at the beginning of each listing.
Unless
an entry is prefixed by the word
Book, Brochure, General, Leaflet or
similar,
the
entry relates to an article that has appeared
in a philatelic periodical.
St.
HELENA 
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
St. KITTS-NEVIS
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
St. LUCIA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley
Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part
1, British Commonwealth”, 1999.
Art
Printery, Castries.
Government Printing Office,
[where?].
St.
THOMAS AND PRINCE ISLANDS
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 14, Africa
Since Independence N-Z”, First
Edition, 1981.
St.
VINCENT AND GRENADINES
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
Reliance Printery,
Kingstown.
SAMOA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
“Stanley
Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part
7, Germany”, Third Edition,
1987.
Samoanische Zeitung
[Samoa
Times], Apia.
SAN
MARINO
Main
Source(s) of Information:
None
SARAWAK
(See MALAYSIA)
SAUDI
ARABIA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 19, Middle
East”, Fourth Edition, 1990.
Dar Al-Asfahani, Jeddah.
Government Security Press,
Riyadh.
Government Stamp Printing
Works, Mecca.
State Printing Works,
Mecca.
SCOTLAND
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
Maclure, Macdonald &
Co., Glasgow.
SENEGAL
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 14, Africa
Since Independence N-Z”, First
Edition, 1981.
Post
& Co., [where?].
SEYCHELLES
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
SHARJAH
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 19, Middle
East”, Fourth Edition, 1990.
SIERRA
LEONE
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
Government Printer, Freetown.
SINGAPORE
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Singapore Stamp
& Postal Stationery Catalogue”,
International Stamp & Coin,
1990.
“Standard Catalogue
of Malaysia – Singapore – Brunei
Stamps and Postal Stationery”,
International Stamp & Coin,
1995
“Stanley Gibbons Stamp
Catalogue, Part 1, British Commonwealth”,
1999.
Asher Security Printers
Singapore Pte. Limited.
Government Printer, Singapore.
Metal Box Singapore Limited,
Singapore.
Secura
Singapore Pte. Limited, Jurong
Town.
“Secura & Security Printers”,
circa 1990.
Security Printers (S)
Pte. Limited, Jurong Town.
“Secura & Security Printers”,
circa 1990.
SLOVAKIA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 5, Czechoslovakia
and Poland”
Kasico
J. C. Security Printing Office a.s., Bratislava.
Private correspondence with
the General Managing Director,
1998.
"KASICO Security Printing
Office”, 1998.
Slovenská
Grafia a s, Bratislava.
SLOVENIA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
None
Cetis,
d.d., Graphic Company, Celje.
“Cetis: Profile and Portrait”,
1998.
“Cetis: Kultura Poslovnega
Komuniciranja”, 1998.
Delo
Tiskarna Printing Works, Ljubljana.
Ljuska Printing Works,
Ljubljana
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons Stamp
Catalogue, Part 1, British Commonwealth”,
1999.
SOMALIA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 14, Africa
Since Independence N-Z”, First
Edition, 1981.
SOUTH
AFRICA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
Bloemfontein Express,
Bloemfontein.
J. P. Borrius, Potchefstroom.
Cape Times
Limited,
The
Cape.
J. F. Celliers [on
behalf of Stamp Commission], Pretoria.
Curling and Co.,
Bloemfontein
and Pretoria.
P. Davis & Son, Pietermaritzburg.
De Zoutpansberg Wachter
Press, Pietersburg.
Government
Printer / Government Printing Works, Pretoria.
“The Printing of Postage
Stamps in South Africa”, The
Springbok [GB], Volume 7, Issue
1, 1959.
“Stamping Around
the World”, Stamp News [Australia],
May 1984.
“The Government Printing
Works paper trials of 1998”,
Setempe [South Africa], November/December
1998.
J.G.S.A. Litho Co., Cape
Town.
The Press Printing and
Publishing Works, Pretoria.
W. A. Richards & Sons, Cape
Town
Saul Solomon & Co.,
Cape
Town.
Dr. D. Taylor,
Mafeking.
Townsend & Co.,
Mafeking.
Transvaal Government Printing
Works, Pretoria.
M. J. Viljoen, Pretoria.
De Villiers & Co.,
Cape
Town.
SOUTH WEST AFRICA
(See NAMIBIA)
SOUTHERN
RHODESIA
(See ZIMBABWE)
SPAIN
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 9, Portugal
and Spain”, Third Edition, 1991.
“Catalogo de Sellos de Espana”,
Filabo, 1995.
A. Anel, Granada.
Carrera,
Vistabella.
Casa de la Moneda, Madrid.
“The Stamp-Makers of Madrid”,
Fred Melville, The Stamp Lover
[GB],
October 1937.
Direccion General de Correos, [where?].
Fabrica Nacional Del Sello,
[where?].
Fabrica
Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, Madrid.
“Catálogo”, FNMT, late
1990s.
"Fabrica
de Papel: FNMT Burgos",
year unknown. Published by FNMT
Heraclio Fournier, SA,
Vitoria, previously at Burgos.
Sources
(Brochures):
“HF: Security Printers of Postage
Stamps”, 1968.
“Heraclio
Fournier SA: With technology
of the future”, late 1980s.
"Manning
Acquires Fournier Archives",
Philatelic Exporter, May 2005.
J. J. Laborde,
Tolosa.
Lithoformas, [where?].
J. Parada Burdeos, [where?].
M. Portabella, Zaragoza.
M. Real,
Vigo.
F. Rieusset, Barcelona.
Olivia de Vilanova, Barcelona.
SRI
LANKA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
Department
of Government Printing, Sri
Lanka.
Printcare Ceylon, Sri
Lanka.
SUDAN
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
“Stanley
Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part
14, Africa Since Independence
N-Z”, First Edition, 1981.
McCorquodale (Sudan) Limited,
Khartoum.
Survey Department, Ministry
of Mineral Resources, Khartoum.
“Kings and Queens” by Savoy,
Philatelic Magazine [GB], October
25, 1968.
SURINAM
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 4, Benelux”,
Third Edition, 1988.
“Stanley
Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part
20, South America”.
H. B. Heijde, Paramaribo.
SWAZILAND
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 1, British
Commonwealth”, 1999.
SWEDEN
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons Stamp
Catalogue, Part 11, Scandinavia”,
Third Edition, 1988.
General
Printing Articles:
"Swedish paper Prints Stamps
for use on Valentine Messages",
Les Winick, Linn's, July 16,
1990
General
Dummy / Testing Type Material
Articles:
"1937-1967 Test Stamps
p. 124"by G.H.F. Maijer,
Postzegel 1974 37
"Test
Stamps" by G. Svensson,
Het Noorderlicht 1974
Jacob Bagge, [where?].
Jacob Bagge Bank-Note
Printing Office, Stockholm.
“Oscar II – Sweden’s First Portrait
Stamps”, Robert Mattson, Stockholmia
Stamp Exhibition catalogue,
1974.
“Oscar II – Le Premier
Timbre de Suéde à
Effigie”, Robert Mattson, Stockholmia
Stamp Exhibition catalogue,
1974.
P. O. Bagge, Stockholm.
Esselte A.B., Stockholm.
Hermelinen under contract
to PostLine.
Moller & Rothe, Gothenburg.
Norrkopings Lithografiska,
[where?].
P. A. Nyman, Stockholm.
Oskarshamns Printing Works, [where?].
PFA
Stamp Printing Works (Sweden Post Stamps), Kista.
Sources
(Brochures):
"Swedish
Postage Stamps", 1967
“A Stamp
is Made”, Swedish Post Office
brochures, 1976, 1980 and 1985.
“Un timbre naît”, Swedish
Post Office brochure, 1980.
“Swedish Stamps - Art and Industry”,
Swedish Post Office brochure,
1984.
“Der Werdegang einer
Briefmarke”, Swedish Post Office
brochure, 1988.
“A Creation
Saga”, Sweden Post Stamps, c1990.
Sources
(Articles):
“Stamp Production in Sweden”,
Stamp Magazine [GB], [when?].?
“How Swedish Stamps are Engraved
and Printed”, American Philatelist
[USA], Volume 64, Number 6,
March 1951.
“A Visit to
the State Printing Plant in
Stockholm” by Herbert T Pritchett,
Scandinavian Contact, Volume
1, Number 1, June 1953.
"Swedish Post Office Stamp
Printing Works", 1973
“An Issue is Born: Sweden’s
Local Traffic, 1977”, Stamp
Monthly [GB], October 1977.
“A Stamp is Made…”, Gibbons
Stamp Monthly [GB], November
1985.
“Kista Pronounced
Cheesta” by H Basil Morton,
Gibbons Stamp Monthly [GB],
October 1987.
“Sweden Post
Plagued by Stamp Thefts” by
Christer Brunström, Stamp
News [Australia], April 1996.
“Postens Frimärkstryckeri
Under 75 År”, Sven-Rune
Johansson, Postryttaren, Postmusei
Årsbok [Sweden], 1995.
PostLine International
AB, Kista.
George [and Edward] Scheutz, [where?].
Count P.A. Sparre,
[where?].
Sture Ljungdahl, Nybro.
Swedish Government Offices, Stockholm.
SWITZERLAND
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Switzerland
Catalogue Millennium 2000 Edition”,
Amateur Collector Ltd., 2000.
General
Dummy / Testing Type Material
Articles:
"Cautionary Advice about
Swiss Test Stamps" by Lester
Winick, p14, Linn's 1998 Apr
6 71 #3623
Avery Heusser AG,
Gümligen.
Benziger & Cie., Einsiedeln.
Bischoff
Textil AG,
St.
Gallen.
“Focus on Stamps [Switzerland],
Swiss Post, Issue 4/2000, 2000.
Busag AG, Berne.
Cartaroll
AG, Bauma.
Collamat
Stralfors AG, Aesch.
Hélio Courvoisier
S.A., La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Sources
(Brochures):
“Crown Agents Stamp Bureau:
Promoting stamps across the
world”, 1991. Sources
(Leaflets):
“Helio Courvoisier S.A., Master
Printers”, company leaflet,
1989, 1997.
“Courvoisier:
Master Printers” company leaflet
in separate French and English
versions, 1997.
Sources
(Articles):
“Courvoisier”, Stamp Collecting”
[GB], 20 July 1972.
“Hélio
Courvoisier S.A.”, Gibbons Stamp
Monthly [GB], December 1972.
"Fabulous Courvoisier"
by S.S. Kahn, American Philatelist
1977 Jun 91 #6
“Stamp
Printers to the World: Fabulous
Courvoisier”, S S Kahn, Swiss
Philatelist [GB], Numbers
73-75, 1978.
“The Courvoisier
Label graces posters, invitations
and candy”, Ernest A Kehr, Stamp
Collector [USA], November 22,
1980.
“Photogravure: the
Courvoisier Version”, Basil
Morton, Stamp Magazine [GB],
April 1984.
“Stamps are
Miniature Works of Art Part
5”, Kristian Hopballe and Edvard
T Jónsson, North Atlantic
Philately [Faroes], 1990.
“Swiss Trial Prints: Helio Courvoisier
S.A.”, Derrick Slate, Helvetia
PS Newsletter [GB], November
1997.
“A Visit to Hélio
Courvoisier S.A.”, Dick Hall,
Tell [USA], September 1998.
“A Világ legnagyobb bélyegnyomdája”,
Bélyegvilág [Hungary],
November 1998.
“Courvoisier“,
Richard West, Stamp Magazine
[GB], August 1999.
"Dummy
Shows How Gravure Is Printed
by Ken Lawrence, p. 20, Linn's
2001 Jun 4 74 #3788
"Walsall
Acquire Helio Courvoisier p.
5", Gibbons Stamp Monthly
2001 Jul 32 #2
"Walsall
Buy s Courvoisier's Assets"
p. 39, Linn's 2001 Jul 30 74
#3796
"Helio
Courvoisier To Close" by
Walt Wehrle, p. 8 Linn's 2001
Mar 19 74 #3777
Editions de l’Aubetin
SA, [where?].
The Federal Mint, Berne.
M. Durheim, [where?].
M. Girardet, [where?].
Impressor
SA, Lausanne and Syens.
Private correspondence with
the company’s Managing Director,
1990, 1994 and 1996.
“Impressor”, circa 1990.
Imprimerie de la Poste
Suisse, Berne.
Landestopographie, Berne.
Topographic Institute, Berne.
The Mint, Berne.
Mulkaupt & Son, Berne.
Orell Füessli &
Cie, Zurich.
Or more recently
Orell Füessli
Security Printing Limited, Zurich.
Permapack, Rorschach.
Philator, Geneva.
PTT Stamp Printing Works,
Berne.
Sources
(Books):
"Artists
create postage stamp pictures",
multi-lingual, 1957
“50
Jahre Werteichendruckerei PTT”,
Switzerland, 1980
"Aviation
Pioneers: the design of the
stamps, mixed printing, beginnings
and development", 1989 Sources
(Articles):
“The Swiss PTT Printing Works”
by M Rutherford, Stamp Collecting
[GB], 15th June 1978.
"50
Jahre Wertzeichendruckerei PTT”
by R Bracher, Berner Briefmarken
Zeitung Journal [Switzerland],
Issue 10/80.
“Swiss Bank
on Precision” by Richard West,
Stamp Magazine [GB], September
1999.
Rimeco-Melano SA, [where?].
M. Schmid, Geneva.
Staemplfli & Co.,
Berne.
Tesa-Bandfix
AG, Bergdietikon, Zurich.
SYRIA
Main
Source(s) of Information:
“Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Catalogue, Part 19, Middle
East”, Fourth Edition, 1990.
State
Printing Works [Government Printer], Damascus.
Zeydoun, Damascus.
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