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Polish Town Cancels: The Second Republic

Bulletin 597 for March 2025 is now online! Our featured article presents Melvin Malenki's "Collecting Polish Town Cancels: The Second Republic". Melvin's fascinating article documents Polish town cancels, incorporating the history and geography of his ancestors....

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Our newsletters have highlighted the many historic events that the Polish Post honors. In the spirit of “out with the old, in with the new”, Polish Post has featured the new Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The museum has found its new home at Warsaw’s Central...

The Gniezno “5” Inverted Overprint

As part of our ongoing efforts to highlight the "Gems of Polish Philately", we have just added the a page on the famous Gniezno "5" inverted overprint. After the Second Republic was reconstituted on November 11, 1918, there are seven provisional issues during this...

ART DECO INFLUENCE ON POLISH PHILATELY

Bulletin 596 for December 2024 is now online! Our featured article presents the art deco influence on Polish philately by Dr. Terry Hursh. Above is one of is the Art Deco poster and stamp by Zygmunt Kamiński which the design for a 1928 Olympic poster stamp. ...

“GROSZY” PROVISIONAL ISSUES OF POLAND 1950 – 1952

We have recently uploaded George Zelwinder's gold medal award winning exhibit on the "GROSZY" Provisional Issues of Poland 1950-1952. The "GROSZY Overprints, used for only 18 months, created a very unique part of Polish Philately. This exhibit displays all officially...

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Introduction to Polish Philately

New to Polish Philately? See our introduction to the many different areas in collecting Polish stamps.

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Gems of Polish Philately

View some of the rarest and most interesting aspects and items of Polish philately. These gems are a regular feature in our quarterly Bulletin written by Dr. James Mazepa.

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Kronenberg Collection

View pages from the Kronenberg Collection. Included in this collection are extensive studies of forgeries and the identifying characteristics of these fakes.

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