Author: SLANIA, Czeslaw (1921-2005)
Title: Signed First Day Cover
Description: Possibly the most famous and certainly the most prolific postage stamp and banknote designer and engraver of all time, with more than 1000 stamps to his credit, this Polish-born Swedish artist accomplished his first postage stamp for Poland in 1951; in 1959 he began designing stamps for Sweden and numerous other countries. Signed First Day Cover, 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 1983 March 24 and with "First Day of Issue" boldly stamped -- AND below this cancelled in Stockholm, Sweden on the same date! Single 20-cent "Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between U.S. and Sweden 1783" at upper right and nearly-identical Swedish version of same stamp below. Fine. Cachet at left features a head-and-shoulders portrait of Slania with printed caption beneath, which identifies this stamp as "His First U.S. Postal Issue." Just below his portrait, Slania signs boldly in silver ink. Very uncommon. .

Keywords: Art & Architecture


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