Fresson stamp!

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:20:11 -0400

I just received a snailmail letter (I still get 2 or 3 of those every year)
from a fellow in Madrid, asking for information about the Fresson process.
I still get 2 to 300 of those requests a year...

At the end of his letter however, he writes "I hope you like the stamp". I
reached for the envelope and there it was! Spain has honored José Ortiz
Echague's work by reproducing one of his better known Fressons! The print
is titled "Remero Vasco" The stamp was issued in 1997. The value is 65.
Anyone on this list knows if other Ortiz-Echague stamps were issued?

I wonder if this would be the first alt-photo print reproduced by a state's
postal service?

The cancellation mark on the stamp I have disfigures the print. I would
like to buy several of those stamps. Could someone from Spain contact me
directly off-list?

Luis Nadeau
NADEAUL@NBNET.NB.CA
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/nadeaul/