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	Boxing Stamp - Gene Tunney's Heavyweight Stamp by Czeslaw Slania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Czeslaw Slania's love of boxing prompted him to engrave a series of twenty-three Heavyweight Champions of the World, all in stamp format.
		The first was the bare-fisted boxer John L. Sullivan, and Slania engraved his own hands for the Sullivan-portrait.
		The portraits show remarkably well Slania's outstanding skill of portraying people, and capture with his burin their nature and inner feelings.
	www.genetunney.org /misc11.html (121 words)

	About Czeslaw Slania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Czeslaw Slania was born 22nd October, 1921, close to Katowice in Poland.
		Slania's versatility is evident in the broad range of subject matter he happily tackles, from royal portraits and flora and fauna to film stars.
		Besides for Sweden, Czeslaw Slania has engraved stamps for numerous other countries, often as joint issues.
	slaniastamps.heindorffhus.dk /frame-AboutSlania.htm (498 words)

	www.faroeartstamps.fo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hofgraveur Czeslaw Slania ist auf der ganzen Welt für seine künstlerischen Leistungen und seinen unglaublichen Fleiß bekannt.
		Czeslaw Slania blev født i den lille polske mineby Czelad den 22.
		Gravørurin Czeslaw Slania er kendur um allan heim fyri síni listarligu verk og sítt ótrúliga ágrýtni.
	www.faroeartstamps.fo /?side=2892c79105688327b3aee126f6de17d8 (1730 words)

	UN-Stamps.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Slania was born near Katowice, Poland, in 1921.
		Slania's diploma engraving was an interpretation in the small format of the Polish artist Jan Matejko's grand painting "The Battle of Grunwald" about the battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg in 1410.
		Slania was employed by the Polish Stamp Printing Works, where he learned to engrave in steel, a harder, more demanding metal than copper.
	www.un-stamps.com /info.html (716 words)

	Stamp Designers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Slania had a set of old prints as his models but his reworking of the images was entirely his own.
		Slania also engraved the Royal Mail set of stamps devoted to British posting boxes – entitled Pillar to Post – released in October 2002, but there are two other GB issues to his credit which might have been overlooked.
		To Slania fell the honour of translating Arnold Machin’s timeless image into line engraving, and it is interesting to compare these stamps with their photogravure and litho cousins.
	www.stampmagazine.co.uk /content/designers/slania.html (779 words)

	Czeslav Slania - The Engraver
		Czeslaw Slania is considered the world's most famous stamps engraver ever.
		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.
	www.artonstamps.org /Countries/Sweden/Slania/slania.htm (370 words)

	RareStampStore.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Czeslaw Slania (pronounced CHESS-wav SWANya) was born Oct. 22, 1921, near Katowice, Poland, to miner Ignacy Slania and his wife Josefa.
		Slania’s final stamps were issued Feb. 4 by the United Nations Postal Administration to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the United Nations.
		Slania also is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records for engraving the most stamps, for engraving the largest stamp (the aforementioned 1,000th stamp for Sweden) and for the fastest stamp engraving (5.5 days for Sweden’s Olof Palme Memorial stamps issued April 11, 1986, Scott 1601-02).
	rarestampstore.com /Slania-Obit.html (1068 words)

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		Czeslaw Slania was born in Poland on October 22, 1921 ‘A great artist has passed away.
		Czeslaw Slania was buried in March, 2005 in the Rakowicki Cemetery in Cracow, Poland.
		Czeslaw Slania's Life Work (Bernadotte, 1989; Das Lebenswerk von Czeslaw Slania) A true masterwork by the world's leading macro-photographer (and member of the Swedish royal family).
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/rsolecki/czeslaw_slania.html (1066 words)

	UN-Stamps.com
		Slania was born near Katowice, Poland, in 1921.
		Slania's diploma engraving was an interpretation in the small format of the Polish artist Jan Matejko's grand painting "The Battle of Grunwald" about the battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg in 1410.
		Slania was employed by the Polish Stamp Printing Works, where he learned to engrave in steel, a harder, more demanding metal than copper.
	un-stamps.com /info.html (716 words)

	DWORY S.A.
		Czeslaw Slania accomplished a copperplate engraving displaying a fragment of the Company's styrene installation.
		Czeslaw Slania donated two additional grafic copies with the image of Pope John Paul II for this cause.
		Czeslaw Slania which is the outcome of the following copperplate engraving which this time is displaying another fragment of the Company - the butadiene tanks.
	www.dwory.pl /mainen/aktualnosci_co_nowego_odslona.php?id=14&arch=1 (295 words)

	RareStampStore.com
		Czeslaw Slania (pronounced CHESS-wav SWANya) was born Oct. 22, 1921, near Katowice, Poland, to miner Ignacy Slania and his wife Josefa.
		Slania’s final stamps were issued Feb. 4 by the United Nations Postal Administration to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the United Nations.
		Slania also is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records for engraving the most stamps, for engraving the largest stamp (the aforementioned 1,000th stamp for Sweden) and for the fastest stamp engraving (5.5 days for Sweden’s Olof Palme Memorial stamps issued April 11, 1986, Scott 1601-02).
	www.rarestampstore.com /Slania-Obit.html (1068 words)

	Collector's Target: REFERENCE CATALOG: Postage Stamps & First Day Covers from the Faroe Islands 2003: Czeslaw ...
		Czeslaw Slania, engraver to the Swedish Court is known all over the world by technicians and artists in engraving for his skill, accuracy and speed.
		Slania was born 22nd October 1921, in the small Polish town Czeladž;.
		Czeslaw Slania engraved the first stamps issued by Postverk Føroya in 1976, and he has engraved one hundred Faroese stamps altogether.
	www.collectorstarget.com /faroes0307.html (530 words)

	Collecting The Works Of Czeslaw Slania
		Slania has produced banknotes, stamps and stamp-like labels, bookplates, stationary, art pieces, and even a concert program In his youth, he even recreated (a much nicer word than forged) a bus pass that he had lost.
		Czeslaw Slania, the court engraver, 70th birthday - Leon Fuchs, Sweden.
		Czeslaw Slania - en mästare i miniformat (in Swedish) - Grafikens Hus, Sweden
	www.norbyhus.dk /chuckm.html (1944 words)

	Press releases - Posten.se
		The Royal Court Engraver of Sweden Czeslaw Slania died the night of Thursday, March 17 after a long period of illness.
		Czeslaw Slania was born in Poland on October 22, 1921 and came to Sweden in 1956.
		Czeslaw Slania was active until his very last days.
	cws.huginonline.com /P/134112/PR/200503/985936_5_2.html (282 words)

	Slania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Photos Czeslaw Slania P ictures taken at the funeral of Czeslaw Slania in Krakow Poland.
		Czeslav Slania Czeslaw Slania (pronounced Chess-wav Swan-ya) was born in Silesia, Poland in 1921.
		Czeslaw Slania (pronounced Chess-wav Swan-ya) was born near Katowice, Poland in 1921.www.artonstamps.org/Countries/Sweden/Slania /slania.htm · 9/24/2006 ·
	testing-123.info /Slania.html (379 words)

	Gibbons Stamp Monthly- Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Stamp Collecting, Stanley Gibbons, Latest Stamp News, Philatelic Magazine
		Czeslaw and I were in the same age group, so we understood each other without having to say too much.
		Czeslaw Slania had an interesting war history, he was very brave man forging documents for the Polish resistance.
		The next chance I had to see Czeslaw was ten years after Stockholm, when he came to London for the launch of the set of five mailcoach stamps, which he had engraved, on 26 June 1984.
	www.gibbonsstampmonthly.com /story.asp?storycode=2038&preview=1 (1411 words)

	Post & Tele Museum - The Master Engraver
		Master engraver Czeslaw Slania (1921-2005) managed to make as many as 1,070 stamp engravings in his lifetime and is consequently the most productive stamp engraver worldwide.
		Slania’s preparatory works for a commemorative stamp from 1968 with motif of the Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen are also displayed as are entire sheets of the proofs for this edition as well as for a commemorative stamp from 1984 with motif of the equestrian statue of Frederik VII in front of Christiansborg Palace.
		Czeslaw Slania's first Danish commemorative stamp from 1962 featuring Børkob Water Mill is also the first stamp drawn by Mads Stage.
	www.postogtelemuseet.dk /viewPage.php?id=353 (365 words)

	CZESLAW SLANIA, MASTER ENGRAVER
		Slania emigrated from Poland to Sweden more than four decades ago and became the country's royal court engraver.
		Slania produced more than 1,000 stamps for 32 countries or postal jurisdictions, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and China; his American commissions included two 1993 stamps that commemorated Grace Kelly and Dean Acheson.
		Czeslaw Slania (pronounced CHESS-wav SWAH-nya) was born in southern Poland on Oct. 22, 1921, to a poor mining family.
	www.coinbooks.com /esylum_v08n13a05.html (371 words)

	CZESLAW SLANIA, MASTER ENGRAVER
		Slania emigrated from Poland to Sweden more than four decades ago and became the country's royal court engraver.
		Slania produced more than 1,000 stamps for 32 countries or postal jurisdictions, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and China; his American commissions included two 1993 stamps that commemorated Grace Kelly and Dean Acheson.
		Czeslaw Slania (pronounced CHESS-wav SWAH-nya) was born in southern Poland on Oct. 22, 1921, to a poor mining family.
	www.coinbooks.org /esylum_v08n13a05.html (371 words)

	GBStamps.com Machin Album - Profile on Print
		The front of the fourth interleaf shows Czeslaw Slania engraving the image for a postage stamp on a die.
		Polish-born Czeslaw Slania has earned himself a place in the Guiness Book of Records as the world’s most prominent and prolific stamp engraver.
		His dexterity and attention to detail is quite remarkable; he has the ability to engrave at an astonishing 10 lines per millimetre.
	www.gbstamps.com /machins/album/profile/profile_09.html (349 words)

	Jay Smith & Associates: Sweden Slania's 1000th Stamp Engraving Price List
		Czeslaw Slania (my pronunciation, with apologizes to Mr.
		Now with over 1000 postage stamps to his credit, his output is even more amazing when one considers that this does not include his banknotes, private labels (such as the "Boxers"), art engravings, test stamps, postal savings and revenue stamps, etc. To collect Slania's works is to enter a world of miniature art.
		Complete Slania New Issue Service: Through what I believe is the world's only Slania new issue service, we endeavor to deliver all of Slania's postal issues, as well as other works, at low new issue prices.
	www.jaysmith.com /Topics/Slania/sweden_slania_1000th_list.html (515 words)

	Jay Smith & Associates: Slania: Sweden: Slania-Engraved Proof Prints: Black Prints and Color Prints
		The year book includes a 2-page spread on Slania, illustrating his awards, some of his private labels, and detail of a master die he engraved.
		For his thousandth stamp, Slania chose to engrave a stamp for Sweden that would also supposedly be the largest regular postal stamp in the world.
		The pack bears a portrait of Slania and an image of a larger area of the ceiling painting.
	www.jaysmith.com /Topics/Slania/Slania-Sweden-Blackprints.html (1400 words)

	Czesław Słania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His last work was a 60 years commemorative of the UN General Assembly, issued in February 2005.
		Denmark's Queen Margrethe, 1975; Slania's name is clearly visible in the lower right margin.
		This page was last modified 21:09, 13 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_S%C5%82ania (207 words)

	Czeslav Slania
		Czeslaw Slania (pronounced Chess-wav Swan-ya) was born in Silesia, Poland in 1921.
		Employed by the Polish Government Printing Works, Slania engraved his first stamp for Poland in 1951.
		Slania also engraved eight stamps for the United States.
	sio.midco.net /danstopicalstamps/slania.htm (162 words)

	Philatelic Tidbits - Stamp Collecting News and Opinions » Blog Archive » Czeslaw Slania is dead
		Czeslaw Slania, master engraver and designer of more than 1000 stamps worldwide, died on March 17, 2005.
		Slania was perhaps the greatest engraver of stamps the world has ever known, and was tremendously prolific during his lifetime, having designed stamps for 32 countries including the USA.
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	www.philatelictidbits.com /?p=21 (173 words)

	The Federal Duck Stamp Program: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Duck Stamp Office is pleased to announce that the 2005-2006 Federal Duck Stamp, scheduled to be issued June 30, 2005, was designed by world renowned stamp engraver Czeslaw Slania of Sweden.
		Slania engraved nearly 1,100 stamps during his 55-year career as a stamp engraver.
		Although he did not engrave the stamp, Slania did complete the preliminary design and an intaglio study for the 2005-2006 Federal Duck Stamp before his death on March 17, 2005 at the age of 83.
	www.fws.gov /duckstamps/Info/news.htm (1382 words)

	Radio Shows 3/25/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When he appeared at stamp shows in the U-S, his stand was always crowded with fans, even though he was quiet and spoke little English.
		Born in Poland, Slania had lived in Sweden for nearly fifty years, working for most of that time for the Swedish post office.
		Slania's last stamps were issued in February, by the United Nations.
	www.virtualstampclub.com /radiostuff/050325.html (195 words)

	eBay - Slania, Topical Specialty, Europe items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		SLANIA - Scarce Coronation Colour Print Proof 70th annv
		SLANIA - Scarce Coronation Black Print Proof 70th annv.
		SLANIA - Feroe fl print proof - Church relief
	www.bowmarshopping.com /9330/104395306.php (325 words)

	The Glassine Surfer, Stamps on the Web, Bulgaria, Denmark, Flasher, Ghandi, Slania, Polar Philately
		No other person associated with stamp design or production is as well known as Czeslaw Slania and no one will ever match his output in terms of quantity or quality.
		Born in Poland, in 1959 he engraved his first stamp for Sweden and is now the Royal Court Engraver in Sweden, Denmark and Monaco.
		Slania's work has appeared on stamps in Argentina, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroes, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Monaco, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United Nations, the United States and many others.
	www.glassinesurfer.com /stamp_column/gs1100.shtml (1820 words)

	Stamp News Daily Blog :: Glassine Surfer: Penny Black 1d
		Here's how you can make your own little sweat box, though you can go buy one for about ten bucks, but really isn't that ten better spent on some more stamps.
		Slania was awarded his diploma with a special honour."...slania
		fyi: Slania has been slated to engrave the USA's Greta Garbo "Legends of Hollywood" commemorative, set for release this fall, but at the last minute the job was transferred to a protege of Slania's because of his ill health.
	www.glassinesurfer.com /news/2005/03/penny-black-1d.htm (327 words)

	Slania Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		SLANIA BOXING WORLD CHAMPIONS cpl. set of stamps
		POLAND SLANIA 1956 HEROES OF THE GHETTO FDC JUDAICA
		Sweden-Hongkong 2003 Water Birds SLANIA 4 cpl mnh
	lukehoskins.com /slania.html (152 words)

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