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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 8242601, member: 42773&quot;]I hope I don&#039;t get banned for posting stamps on a coin forum, but there&#039;s only one way to find out. Gilroy Roberts was the only artist to work both as an engraver for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and as a sculptor for the Mint. The stamps he designed were for the Famous Americans Commemorative Postage Series of the 1940&#039;s, and included inventor Eli Whitney, philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, and songsmith Stephen Foster. I have them in sets of four...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450987[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As a young artist, Roberts took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and caught the attention of US Mint Chief Engraver John R. Sinnock (designer of the Roosevelt dime and Franklin half dollar), who just happened to be a friend of Roberts&#039; mother. Gilroy began work at the Mint in 1936, but it ended abruptly when FDR ordered a cut in government staff in 1938. So he made his way over to the BEP, where he perfected his portraiture skills on stamps. (These are the ones I know of - there may be more.) Roberts returned to the Mint in 1944 as Sinnock&#039;s assistant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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