Czesław Słania
Polish artist
Died when: 83 years 146 days (1000 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Czeslaw Slania (22 October 1921 Czeladz; 17 March 2005 Kraków) was a Polish-born postage stamp and banknote engraver, living in Sweden from 1956.According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Slania 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.
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