Collecting Areas

Table 1 – Historical Impact on Collecting Poland

Historical State / Status Collecting Interest
Kingdom of Poland 14th c. – 18th c. (1) Stampless Mail
Partition of Poland 1772, 1773 & 1795 – 1918 (2) Free City of Kraków 1815-1846
(3) Postmarks of the Congress Kingdom
(4) Poland #1 1860-1865
World War I Occupation 1915-1918 (5) Austrian Occupation
(6) German Occupation
(7) Kingdom of Poland Essays
(8) Local Postal Services
2nd Republic of Poland 1918-1939 9) 2nd Republic of Poland – General (a) Provisional Issues
Polish Soviet War 1919-1921 (10) Central Lithuania 1920-1922
(11) Free City of Gdańsk (Danzig)
(12) Port Gdańsk
(13) Plebiscites
     (a) Upper Silesia
     (b) Kwidzyn (Marienwerder)
     (c) Olsztyn (Allenstein)
     (d) Eastern Silesia
World War II Occupation 1939-1945 (14) World War II Era
     (a) Government in Exile
     (b) Scout Mail (Warsaw Uprising)
     (c) General Gouvernement
     (d) Soviet Occupation 1939-1941
     (e) Polish lands annexed to Germany
     (f) Ghetto Post
     (g) German Occupation of Ostland
People’s Republic of Poland 1945-1989 (15) People’s Republic of Poland – General
(16) Groszy Overprints & Covers 1950-1952
3rd Republic of Poland 1989 – Present (17) 3rd Republic of Poland – General

 

Table 2 – Other Collecting Interests

(1)     Air Mail (Aerophilately)
          (a)   General Stamps
          (b)   First Flight Covers
          (c)   Balloon / Zeppelin First Flight Labels & Covers
          (d)   Glider / Rocket / Helicopter / Pigeon Labels & Covers
(2)     Cancellations / Postmarks
(3)     Errors
(4)     Fantasy Issues / Cinderellas / Labels
(5)     First Day Covers
(6)     Forgeries
(7)     Military
          (a)   Poles in Napoleon’s “Grande Armée” – Italy
          (b)  Piłsudski’s Polish Legions 1914-1926
          (c)   Polish 1st Corps in Russia 1918
          (d)  Military Mail & Censorship in the 3-Week War – Sep 1939
          (e)  Polish Forces in France
          (f)   POW Camps: Woldenberg, Murnau, Gross Born, and Neubrandenburg
          (g)  Concentration Camp Mail
          (h)  Internment Camps – Lithuania, Hungary, and Romania
          (i)   Ander’s Army – 2nd Corps in Russia, Middle East, and Italy
          (j)   Refugee Camp Mail
          (k)  Displaced Persons Mail in Germany 1945-1948
(8)     Officials
(9)     Polonica
(10)   Postage Dues
(11)   Postal History
(12)   Postal Stationery
(13)   Revenues
(14)   Semi-Postals
(15)   Słania Engraved Stamps, Portraits, and Art
(16)   Topicals / Thematics