The centenary of the birth of Czeslaw Slania, stamp engraver to the Royal Court, is being marked with a stamp
Czeslaw Slania was globally unique as a stamp engraver. No one else in the world of stamps has been so prolific. On 22 October, an engraved stamp is being released in minisheet format in recognition of his work.Czeslaw Slania started working as an engraver for Swedish Posten in 1959. His first Swedish stamps were issued in 1960. They were portraits of writer Gustaf Fröding and artist Anders Zorn. During his career, Slania created a large number of stamp and banknote engravings for countries throughout the world. What distinguished him was his use of a 500-year-old technique to convert other