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In 2000: George 'Dubya' Bush elected U.S. President; human genome deciphered; Concorde

crashes; Charles Schulz (Peanuts) and Alec Guinness die; Y2K bug was a big disappointment.

At the RPSL: Society enters internet age by putting library holdings on new RPSL website.

RSPL heavily involved in London 2000 International Exhibition.

RPSL Presidents were Professor Barrie Jay and Gavin Fryer. Patron H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.

Membership 1500-1643.

CZESLAW SLANIA'S lOOOth ENGRAVED STAMP

From t he collection of Terry Wagg FRPSL.

Member since 1995. Lives in England.

17 111.G1r! 2000
CZESLAW SLANIAS l OOO:e FRIMARKE

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Slania had engraved more postage stamps than any other engraver in history, his output was

prolific and his record will never be beaten. His spectacular one-thousandth stamp was issued

by Sweden on 17th March 2000, and won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as

the largest engraved stamp ever issued. The engraving shows a fragment of a paint ing by

David Kloeker Ehrenstrahl, master of the Swedish Baroque Era, painted in 1695. 'The Great

Deeds of Swedish Kings' is hung in Drottningholm Palace, Stockholm. Sadly Czeslaw Slania

died on 17th March 2005, exactly five years to the day after this l OOOth stamp was issued.