World Heavyweight Boxing Champions

World Heavyweight 

Boxing Champions

 Slania had been a boxing fan for many years and in the early sixties he engraved a series of 23 portraits of heavyweight world champions in the form of postage stamps.  The engravings were of boxing’s world heavyweight champions from 1889-1964.  In the first engraving, of John L. Sullivan, the artist engraved his own hands instead of those of Sullivan.