Scott # 1601

Scott # 1602

• 1986.  Prime Minister Olof Palme in Memoriam.  Mr. Palme was tragically assassinated on 28th February 1986.  Part of the proceeds from the sale of these stamps was forwarded to the "Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security".  Czeslaw Slania engraved this stamp in only 5 days.

Scott # 1596

Scott # 1597

Scott # 1598

Scott # 1599

Scott # 1600

• 1986.  40th Anniversary of King Carl XVI Gustaf.

  • The king in the Swedish mountains of Jämtland.

  • The king's monogram.

  • The king handing over the Nobel Literature Prize 1980 to Cz. Milosc.  Click here to see the corresponding Polish replica issue 2003.  The link wil open in a new window.  

  • The Royal Family at Solliden (Öland). 

On the stamp to the far right in this set many people think that Slania has been joking by engraving the children's names on their clothes.  With an 8x magnifier one can see the names CARL PHILIP (0,2 mm high and 1,8 mm wide)  + the name MADELEIN (0,4 mm high and 1,8 mm wide); but VICTORIA's name does not appear.   Czeslaw Slania tells that on the photo after which the engraving is made, the children's names -- except for Victoria's -- are embroidered on their clothes.

Scott # 1609

Scott # 1610

Scott # 1608

Scott # 1607

• 1986.  Stockholmia '86.  Celebrating the Postal Service's 350th anniversary.  People at work conveying mail through four centuries.

  • Mail farmhand, 17th century.

  • The Interior of a Post Office, 18th century.

  • A mail carriage, 19th century.

  • Modern mail handling at the Post Terminal in Tomteboda, 20th century.

Scott # 1646

Scott # 1648

• 1987.  Art at Gripsholm Castle.  The stamps are out of a set of four, of which Slania has engraved the two stamps shown.

  • Gustav Vasa, by an unknown artist.

  • Madame H. Ch. Nordenflycht.  Replica after J.H. Scheffel, ca. 1750.

Scott # 1654

Scott # 1655

Scott # 1656

• 1987.  Bicentenary of Circus Art in Sweden.

  • Two clowns.

  • Balancing on a rope.

  • Ballerina on horseback.

Scott # 1673

Scott # 1676

• 1988.  New Sweden 1638-1988.  The two stamps are out of a set of six, of which Slania has engraved the two stamps shown.

  • Bishop Hill, Illinois, founded 1846 by the "prophet" E. Jansson and a self portrait of the painter O. Krans.

• 1988.  Alan Bean with a Hasselblad camera on the moon, 19th November 1969 (Apollo XII).

Scott # 1694-1699

• 1988.  Swedish Artists in Paris.  Please note that the booklet pane has no upper and lower selvedges.  It is exactly as shown here.

  • Nils Dardel (1884-1943).  "Self Portrait" (1923), and "Visit with an Eccentric Lady" (1921).

  • Vera Nilsson (1888-1979).  "Autumn at The Old Men's House" (ca. 1930), and "Soap Bubbles" (1927).

  • Isaac Hirsche Grünewald (1889-1946).  "Self Portrait (1912), and "The Singing Tree" (1915). 

Scott # 1704

Scott # 1705

• 1988.  100th birth anniversary of Dan Andersson (poet) (1888-1920).

  • Portrait Photo 1916.

  • His birth area in the Grangärde Finnmark in the southernmost part of Dalecarlia.