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Czeslav Slania - The Engraver

From the original Art on Stamps archive

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The 1000th Slania's stamp, reproduced above, recently entered in the Guinness Book of Records, as the biggest engraved stamp ever. Czeslaw Slania engraved not only stamps, but also banknotes, for many countries. Among the countries for which he worked are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faeroe, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Sweden, the United Nations and the United States. He is continually on the way and admits that he don't always know in which country he is at a given moment.

Mr. Slania said about his 1000th stamp: "This is until now my best work, but just wait till I'll reach the age of 100 - then I'll be EVEN better..." I hope that the future will give both of us the chance, to Mr. Slania to engrave his centenary anniversary stamp and to myself to publish it on this page, that is, in AD 2021.

Chuck Matlack (+) was the first to publish on the Web a page dedicated to the great engraver. It appeared under the title: Collecting the Works of Czeslaw Slania .