madbaker
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What I collect: (Mark) General worldwide collector (to 1975 or so) with a soft spot for Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia.
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Post by madbaker on Jul 2, 2023 3:18:24 GMT
Todd recently relocated the site to a new URL: www.ronnei.com/slania/index.html. Google does not yet point to the new site address, so he needs to generate some traffic. Please visit the site and spread the word. Oh, that's great news, Steve. I was internet friends with Mette in the early 2000's. She was a treasure and her website is a treasure for Slania collectors. I often worry that we lose so much history and knowledge as websites go offline.
Just last week, I was digging through the Internet Archive looking for public domain stamp writing (there's the odd entertaining monograph from 1910 in there!) and found two files on Slania. One is a PDF representation of Mette's website and the other is a PDF version of a very interesting Slania exhibit. Here's a link if you're interested: Slania exhibit on Internet Archive.The author labels each stamp displayed with a unique catalogue number, made up of the country of issue, the number of stamp he engraved for that country and the number of engraved stamps overall. So 25D3 would be his 25th stamp and his 3rd for Denmark, for example.
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Post by daniel on Aug 6, 2023 14:13:42 GMT
Boxing Cinderellas Londonbus1 showed the set of these earlier in this thread. In the various online websites there is usually a warning about fakes. They do exist but don't seem to be as common as is suggested. Here is an example that I recently acquired depicting Gene Tunney, showing an original engraved version first and then the forgery in offset lithography. There are also clear differences in size.
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Post by daniel on Aug 6, 2023 14:40:28 GMT
Two Polish postcards marking the 5th anniversary of Slania's death. The first card actually shows fellow Polish engraver Piotr Naszarkowski's tribute to Slania by adding stamp no. 24 to the Boxing series depicting Slania himself as a Champion Engraver,
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