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At the recent Great American Stamp Show held in Schaumberg, IL from August 14-17, 2025, Polonus members exhibited 50 frames of Polish related material of the over 800 frames of exhibits being shown.   Winning the prestigious Polonus Grand Award for Best Exhibit of...

  Newsletter 12 is now online!  In this issue Dr Ed Andrews highlights the story Poland’s Crownless White Eagle in philately.   In 1952, the Soviet Union created the Polish Peoples Republic, a Communist puppet state lasting to 1989. To emphasize the loss of a kingdom...

Bulletin 598 for June 2025 is now online!  Our featured article presents Dr James Mazepa's feature on The “Ultimate” United States Two-Cent Pulaski First Day Cover.  This cover has an intriguing journey that is worth the read!  Our June issue also has Melvin...

  As a regular feature of our newsletter, Dr. James Mazepa will write up some of his infamous finds while shopping online.    The bottom line is "buyer beware" especially when it comes to buying potentially rare items online.  Recently, Jim came across a block of...

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....

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...

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...

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...