Czesław Słania
Polish postage stamp and banknote engraver / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Czesław Słania (22 October 1921 Czeladź; 17 March 2005 Kraków)[1] was a Polish postage stamp and banknote engraver, living in Sweden from 1956. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Słania was the most skilled and prolific of all stamp engravers, with over 1000 stamps to his credit. His 1000th engraved stamp, based on the 17th-century painting "Great Deeds by Swedish Kings" by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (2000), is in the Guinness Book as the largest engraved stamp ever issued.[2]