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A few more examples Collectioneur
#364655 The house of questa
#267411 Carter
#700031 Austrian State Druckerei
#700103 De la rue
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#320677 De La Rue! (according to the rules)
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Or as it is printed on the stamp Esquerdo . DE LA RUE.
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Also help when searching: sometimes the printer insists #2254587 .

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Or as it is printed on the stamp Esquerdo . DE LA RUE.

It really says Harrison and Sons LTD. But that is what De La Rue has become.
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Esquerdo Raoul62 Charles1971
I believe that the printing company is mentioned on a number of stamps, but I suspect that the majority of stamps do not mention the printing company. Especially not on the old stamps.

By the way, I don't see BPost in the overview of printers, as indicated on #9941021 . Isn't BPost the publisher of that stamp?
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Collectioneur A few months ago it was decided to merge the printers De Post, BPost and affiliates with Zegeldrukkerij Mechelen. In Belgium we of course know that it is the same company and so it seemed logical. But I can indeed imagine that if they print for the rest of the world, these collectors have never heard of Mechelen.
Edit: We can have the same discussion a second time for Uitgever, because the name has also changed there over the years.
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Collectioneur: Is 1902 Old Enough?

#5393993

Furthermore, it isirrelevant. To return to my original post: FNMT did not exist before 1893 and therefore did not print a Spanish stamp before 1893.

If the intention is not to fill in fields if there is no possibility of confusion, you can often also delete the color, perforation, and paper.
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If printing company is required for identification, then I am curious how I can see which printing company printed it on a stamp? Because then I can filter/search with that data.
In principle, a printer can never be the only point of difference between 2 stamps. If the stamps cannot be physically distinguished, then they should be considered the same stamp (even if they are not). But sometimes the differences are very small and subtle. Sometimes the postmark is decisive. Sometimes a grid size is different or the structure of the sheet is different, such as horizontal versus vertical. The edge data on a sheet can also provide information. There may also be a slightly different color or a different printing technique has been used, such as plate printing versus rotary printing. These are often features that you cannot get rid of at Lastdodo, but they are distinguishable and make the distinction between 2 or more stamps. Busier is then the only field with which you can indicate the distinction.
Searching for a printer can be useful if you are looking for that special issue. But those who search by printer will do so by the name of the printer, as it was at the time of issue. No one would even think to first study the acquisitions of that company. Moreover, it becomes difficult if both companies have merged (or been acquired) into one larger company. Again, a stamp contains little information about printing, printing company, publisher, etc. You have to look for differences yourself. That requires a lot of in-depth research. Fortunately, a lot of preliminary work has already been done. Preliminary work that is often included in (large) paper catalogs or can be found on the Internet. (Unfortunately, Rein's many works have been lost on the Internet). Unfortunately, Lastdodo still lags far behind these (paper) catalogues, which are also not without errors.
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az60 Esquerdo etc
It is now clear to me that the stamp collectors active on the forum mainly want to have as many variants as possible, down to the smallest details, and there is certainly no objection to that.
However, the vast majority of collectors will have great difficulty with this and may drop out. They will no longer be able to find the stamp in their possession due to the variant forest.

Jummeke is right with the naming of BPost and the Stamp Printing Company. If it is important for collectors to distinguish between the printing house and the publishing house in order to indicate variants, an exception can possibly be made - just as with postcards.
The major disadvantage is that you can no longer get a complete overview of everything that a printing company has printed during its history.
I leave the decision on this to the stamp administrators.
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As Jummeke writes
A few months ago it was decided to merge the printers De Post, BPost and affiliates with Zegeldrukkerij Mechelen. In Belgium we of course know that it is the same company and so it seemed logical. But I can indeed imagine that if they print for the rest of the world, these collectors have never heard of Mechelen.
It has been decided that stamps from a printing company should remain grouped even when names change. If after a merger it remains clear who as printer was responsible for certain stamps, these will also be kept together. The most recent name is then entered. The old name is usually entered as a Name Variation so that it can be found with the search engine. In addition, there are also aliases that are sometimes used.

If you search for BPost in the main search bar (next to the LastDodo logo) you will find the Mechelen Stamp Printing Company.

I just added Fabrica del Sello as a name variation to FNMT.

There are a few exceptions to the above as a pragmatic solution for a large number of incorrectly entered printing companies that could no longer be split off. If anyone ever encounters this and wants to take on this task to solve it completely, they can (I forget which country it was).

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Helv 
Again you proclaim certain things everything that are not correct (as usual).
Please read the background page of the Hungarian printing company ANY (which you have also adapted yourself!).
This printer is listed under two names:
Allami Nyomda [1868-2013] 
and the same printer as 
ANY Biztonsági Nyomda (2013-)
The years of existence are important here: a 1969 stamp was printed by Allami Nyomda and not by ANY (which did not exist at the time).
I think the only way to properly compile the list of printers.
Of course it takes some effort to create the history on a background page and then put the different names in the list with the data.
The same happened for the French printing works. 
As far as Belgium is concerned, it is a disaster, only one name for more than 12,000 items? (Stamps printing company IPM Mechelen)
And by the way De La Rue isn't even on the list. 
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isn't it this one ?
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Yes. Why?
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"De La Rue isn't even on the list"

I thought you didn't find it, but that printer is (still) there on LD.
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I do not find De La Rue in the list of printers for the Belgian catalog, although this printer has printed Belgian stamps.
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I don't think it was filled in where it applies.
I cannot immediately find any items that say 'Mechelen' instead of 'De La rue'.
I think it still needs to be supplemented.
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There are a few in our ex-colony Belgian Congo. And also in Rwanda .
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I have supplemented the series 75 years of Belgium.
The Leopold I series of 1865 was also printed by:
Smets, Antwerp (10c and 20c);
De La Rue for the other values.
The detailed explanation can be found in the header of this series in the OBP. The items were also supplemented or improved by me, except for the damned "basic stamps". 
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I'll just add my post here.
At stamp printers in Czechoslovakia I often come across the name, Czechoslovak Graphic Union, Prague or also written as, Czech Graphic Union, Prague or also Èeská grafická union, Praha , but it is not in the list. This was deliberately chosen because a few printing companies have been merged.
Or is this the Unie printing company that is in the list.
But if this is the case, what can one do with Union alone? At least not much.
The few stamps that now only say Union were in any case printed by the printing company above in my post.
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Lyonesse this is what was in there from the beginning (well since I joined LD).

I once tried to see what printers are like in Czechoslovakia:

Èeská grafická union, Praha | | Czech Graphic Union, Prague (Czech, not Czechoslovak) | 1932-1951
| Union | | Union | 1951-1952
| Naše vojsko | | Our Army | 1952
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| Poštovní tiskárna, Praha | Tiskárna spojù, Praha | Post Office Printing Works, Prague | 1952-1991
| Poštovní tiskárna cenin Praha | PTC Praha | Postal Printing House of Securities Inc. |
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| Summary: | | |
| 1945 - 1949: Èeská grafická union, Praha = Czech Graphic Union, Prague |
| 1950 - 1951: Union, Praha = Union, Prague | |
| 1952: Stickney printings: Naše vojsko, Praha = Our Army, Prague; WIFAG printings: Poštovní tiskárna, Praha = Post Office Printing Works, Prague
| 1953 - 1991: Poštovní tiskárna, Praha or Tiskárna spojù, Praha , which means the same = Post Office Printing Works, Prague
| 1992 - : PTC Praha = Poštovní tiskárna cenin Praha = Postal Printing House of Securities Inc. |


However, the transitions are not completely clear to me.

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I had found pretty much the same list somewhere on the net, but I couldn't find it again today.
I am now working on stamps from the 1930s.
So then it is the Printing House, Èeská grafická union, Praha or also Czech Graphic Union, Prague (this name is also often found on stamps from the 1930s)
If one can add this name, then one can at least move forward with it.
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