by MarkPolonus | Mar 5, 2024 | News
The March issue of the Polonus Bulletin (#593) is now online. The top story, by Steve Volis, is about the Polish Consular “ODESA” overprints of 1919-1920. Also in this issue is “A Philatelic Tribute to Polish Freedom Fighter Tadeusz Kościuszko (by...
by MarkPolonus | Oct 2, 2023 | News
2024 Great American Stamp Show Hartford, Connecticut 15-18 August 2024 Polonus Highlights ♦ Society Booth for all show days. ♦ Polonus Annual members meeting. Date & time tbd. ♦ Special Presentations on Polish philately ♦ Award winning exhibits by Polonus...
by MarkPolonus | Sep 27, 2023 | News
Numbering about 230,000 at the end of 1945, the WWII Free Polish Forces attached to the British, United States, and other Allied Armed Forces units were permitted to maintain their own Polish Field Post Offices (FPO) within the FPOs of their allies. The WWII Polish...
by MarkPolonus | Sep 27, 2023 | News
This 3.90-zł stamp honors Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołai Kopernik) (1473-1543), the famous astronomer and mathematician who postulated the heliocentric theory that the earth was a moving heavenly body, one of the planets, that all revolved around the sun. Before...
by MarkPolonus | Jul 23, 2023 | News
Polonus held its annual meeting and exhibition at WESTPEX 2023 entering no fewer than 11 exhibits in competition and comprising 59 frames. This was over a quarter of the total number of exhibition frames and the most by any participating society. Polonus members...
