Włodzymierz Vacek
Persons, originating from Poland

Włodzymierz Vacek

Born: in Poland, date unknown
Died: 1961 in London
Vacek was a Polish engraver. He was the author of many artistically successful and high-level works. In the period 1932 – 1938 he engraved postage stamps and banknotes for the the state printing company PWPW in Warsaw, as an employee of this company. After the outbreak of World War II, he went to the British Isles, where he worked at the Thomas De La Rue & Co graphic works in London, among others on engraving Polish banknotes for the government in exile.
He engraved also stamps for Greece (1938), Ireland (1952) and Argentina (1959).
        First stamp, engraved by Vacek in 1932
  remembering the 200th birthday of George Washington

More information, only in Polish

Polonica stamps:

Argentina 1959, 20 VI
 Greece 1934, 10 XII
 Ireland 1952, 10 XI