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The strained relationship between Barre and Hulot caused delays in the production of new stamps in the early 1860s. In disagreement with Hulot's work, Barre delayed the delivery of the dies of the new laurel effigies of Napoleon III stamps which had been designed in early 1861. On two occasions for
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stamp. In the end, Hulot retained the contract by lowering his prices. In 1861, thanks to the delay of Hulot, the technique of using the coin press, however, allowed Barre to take the contract to produce printing plates of the first postage stamps of Greece. Barre had designed the drawing and the
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His career changed when his father, Jacques-Jean Barre, asked him to assist him at the mint in 1845. Became his father's closest collaborator, so much so that it becomes difficult to distinguish their respective contributions, especially for the early French stamp projects dating from 1848.
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Louis Fanchini, "The essays "Cérès 1858": Why are they an integral part of the Greek philately?", Philotelia n° 652/653 & 654 of September/October, November/December 2008 & January/February 2009, pages 260–270, 364–374 &
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Louis Fanchini, Large Hermes heads Paris printing: The exact quantities ordered and shipped to Athens", Philotelia n° 646 of September/October 2007, pages 277–286.
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Graveurs Généraux et particuliers des Monnaies de France, Contrôleurs Généraux des Effigies, Noms de quelques graveurs en Médailles de la Renaissance Française
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Louis Fanchini, The Ernest Meyer's imprints on the large Hermes head of Greece and on the Cérès of France, Opus number 13 of 2013, pages 69–84.
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In 1855, he resumed the work of his father, including engravings for French postage stamps. Barre, unlike his father, did not work well with
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from 1843 to 1851. He received a third-class medal at the Salon in 1846. He painted the frescoes in the chapel of
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In February 1855, he succeeded his father, to the post of Chief Engraver of the Paris Mint. He wrote
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between 1858 and 1859. He produced, on the order of the Committee on Coins, test types of the
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After his death, his brother Jean-Auguste Barre succeeded him as Chief Engraver in 1879.
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the contractor responsible for printing the stamps. Hulot was an expert at
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in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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Noms de quelques graveurs en Médailles de la Renaissance Française
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Graveurs Généraux et particuliers des Monnaies de France',
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Michael Chambers (January 2008). "Messenger of the Gods".
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from 27 February 1855 to his death. He was the son of
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who preceded him as the Chief Engraver. His brother
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Désiré-Albert Barre

engraver
medalist
Paris Mint
Jacques-Jean Barre
Jean-Auguste Barre
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Paul Delaroche
Paris Salon
Saint-Eustache, Paris

Anatole Hulot
electroplating
coining presses
Ceres
Hermes type
denomination
"French Sculpture Census"
the original
ISBN
2842340353
Albert Désiré Barre
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1878 deaths
Sculptors from Paris
19th-century French engravers
French engravers

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