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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. ...

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...

  Newsletter 9 for Fall 2024 is now online.   Among our regular features we are highlighting a postcard sent from Three Rivers, Massachusetts, July 25, 1919, to Miejsce Piastowe in Poland. This card which is in Polish is great documentation of one of the many...

Members - Bulletin 595 is now online!  Featured in this issue is Dr. Edwin Andrews article on Józef PiłsudskiFather of Poland’s Second Republic.  Also featured is Steve Bonowski's Errors and Misprints of Early Polish Philately, 1918-1939.  .Above is a 1939 picture...

We have recently uploaded Jay Stotts' award winning exhibit on the 1933 5c General Kosciusko stamp.  This multi-frame exhibit studies all aspects of this stamp, but the emphasis is on the first day of issue cachets. The exhibit also thoroughly treats the stamp...

Are you new to Polish Philately?  Collecting Poland offers opportunities in a wide range of specialty areas, in addition to the general areas of stamp collecting. As a result of a unique geographic location and turbulent history, including two world wars and other...

As a regular feature in the Bulletin of the Polonus Polish Philatelic Society, Dr. James Mazepa and others present some of the rarest and most interesting aspects and items of Polish philately.  We have updated any pertinent new information from when these were...

Bulletin 594 is now online for members only.  This Bulletin features highlights of our 85th Anniversary as well as articles Russian Imperial Official Business Perfins of Warsaw by Sergey Tomskikh and Dick Scheper The Case of the Black Proofs of Poland –What are they?...

Members - Bulletin 592 is now online.   Featured in this issue is a comprehensive study of Postal Correspondence of the Polish 1 Corps in Russia by Krzystof Piwko.  Also included is part 2 of Jerry Schultz's artile on Czeslaw Slania and Poland Fights On: 1939-1945 by...

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 Lawrence Skalak),...

2024 Great American Stamp Show Hartford, Connecticut 15-18 August 2024Polonus Highlights ♦ Society Booth for all show days.  ♦ Polonus Annual members meeting. Date & time tbd. ♦ Special Presentations on Polish philately ♦ Award winning exhibits by Polonus members ...

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...