1967Stamps: Poland stamps

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Inflation.??Hmm...

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Some of the stamps I show today are a perfect example of how Postmarks can easily disrupt the entire overall aspect , turning them into less appealing stamps..

In a earlier post I said that great part of my Poland stamps are recent.. well, I've got a small group of them from the 20's and 30's , but they all have this 'postmark' trouble.. but I have to classify them the same , and give them a place in my collection..

this series was issued in a time where several Social and Economic variables were in great mutation...

"After Poland's independence in 1918, the country soon began experiencing extreme inflation. By 1921, prices had already risen 251 times above those of 1914, but in the following three years they rose by 988,223%[58] with a peak rate in late 1923 of prices doubling every nineteen and a half days.[59] At independence there was 8 marek per US dollar, but by 1923 the exchange rate was 6,375,000 marek (mkp) for 1 US dollar. The highest denomination was 10,000,000 mkp. In the 1924 currency reform there was a new currency introduced: 1 zloty = 1,800,000 mkp" (Wikipedia)

This 1924 series is the first one where the new currency appears , with 1z =100g ; the 1z stamp is very different from the others,representing the 2nd Poland President Stanislaw Wojciechowski...

there are still 2 stamps missing (3g and 40g)

1924 "Arms of Poland" (12) [Perf (from 10 to 13 and mix)] [Litho] Sc(215,216,218,219,220,221,222,223,225,226)

Series representing two of the main pillars of the 2nd Republic of Poland... Jozef Pilsudski (1867/1935) , represented in the first two stamps, was the most important figure in the shaping of Poland after the WW1..As military Chief and Head of State , it was with his Work and belief that the new Poland Map was redesigned..[Poland was not an Independent republic for 123 years , and many of it's original regions were split by the main Regional Powers..] From 1918 to 1935 his Political activity was vital for Poland and his memory is highly Regarded...
The 3rd stamp show us Ignacy Moscicki (1867/1946) , President of Poland from 1926 to 1939.. As We can see many of this time coincided with the activity of Jozef Pilsudski and during his presidency , Moscicki never leave his former work as Cientist and inventor in the field of chemistry... We can say that Pilsudsky was the real 'Strong Man' of the regime during these days...
The 1st stamp was issued in 1931 and the two others in 1928..
1928/1931 "Jozef Pilsudski and Ignacy Moscicki" (3) [Perf (from 10.5 to 14 and mix)] [Recess] Sc(254,253,255)

[Left] 1928 "Return From Syria of the Ashes of General Jozef Bem" (1) [Perf 12.5] [Typo] Sc(256)
The life of General Jòzef Bem is one of those that should be known , because it was a life of constant discovery ,adventure and Prowess's..

[Right] 1928 " Henryk Sienkiewicz (author)" (1) [Perf] 12.5] [Typo] Sc(257)
Nobel Prize winning novelist ... Author of the famous novel "Quo Vadis" , brought to Global Fame by Hollywood in 1951..

[Left] 1928 "National Arms" (3) [Perf 12 x 12.5] [Typo] Sc(258,259,260)
[Right] 1928 "National Exhibition, Poznan" (1) [Perf 12.5 x 12] [Typo] Sc(261) in this stamp it is represented the Slav God Swiatowid

[Left] This stamp is a homage to George Washington in his Birth Bicentenary.. Side by side with Washington are two figures of Poland who became famous in the United States of those days...At the Left we have Tadeusz Kościuszko and at the Right Casimir Pulaski..
1932 "Birth Bicentenary of George Washington" (1) [Perf 11.5] [Typo] Sc(267)
[Right] it is without doubts a beautiful stamp, good printing , good design , but the postmark doesn't help..it is designed by one of the main graphic Artists of Poland and in the stamp are represented the Airman Franciszek Zwirko and the airplane Designer Stanislaw Wigura..
1933 "Victory in Flight round Europe Air Race, 1932" (1) [Perf 11.5][Des (Ryszard Kleczewski)][Recess (Wlodzimierz Vacek)] [Wmk] Sc(C10) [Air Mail]

These stamps I present now , were included just to complete the post with some more stamps..
they are from different times ...

[Left] 1951 "Six Year Plan" (4) [Perf 12.5 x 13] [Des (W. Zakrzewski)][Recess (M.R. Polak)] Sc(507A,508)
[Right] 1974 "Flowers (Paintings by Stanislaw Wyspianski)" (6) [Perf 12 x 11.5] [Des ( J. Brodowski)][Recess (B. Konechi)] Sc(2017,...,2022)

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Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Parasite

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This is a homage to Picasso made by the Polish Postal Service.It is a stamp that reminds me of a host and it's parasite.. the " parasite" stamp can not live without the main stamp ( the "Host" ), because it has no currency , country label and in the end no value... in this case we are in presence of a very nasty "parasite" (I should say that among many things that I am , a Picasso Fan is not one of them...).(!!)..
These stamps are from a set of (1+1)+MS from 1981 "Birth Centenary of Pablo Picasso"
Perf: 11 x 11.5
SG(2719) Sc(2432)

http://www.picasso.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Complete set from 1987 "90th Birth Anniv of General Karol Swierczewski"
Perf: 11.5 x 12
SG(3102) Sc(2795)

from a set 8 1957 "Polish Doctors"
Perf: 11.5
SG(1009,1015) Sc(769.775)

Now , we are in presence of stamps from one of the famous series from Brazil..First I want to apologize for the condition of some of my Brazilian stamps.. They were bought , immediately after I have taken control of the collection..It was a 400 stamps lot and it had everything from the early days of Republic, many definitive stamps, some from the Monarchy and many commemorative from the 30's to 60's... it was a very complete lot because it gave a general view of the Brazilian Philately.. However , the stamps were in general bad condition... In these Blog I committed myself to present only the stamps that are entering in the collection ( stamps that are in the classification period..), so I have to present them , and someday in the future , who knows, replace them for better condition stamps.
I want to emphases once again that the ideal situation is to have a world Catalog and a National catalog... In the case of Brazil stamps , a National catalog is a real necessity , because when We think We have finished a series ( according to world catalogs..), we haven't reached yet to the middle of it , according to the National catalog...
in the world Catalog this set has 16 stamps , but in the National we have to count 44 (different tonalities..to each one , a different catalog value.)
The original series goes only until the 5.00cr stamp.. I present here stamps until the 20.00cr stamp..in this original set from 1954/1960 , the figures are presented against a clear and plain background.; in the following issue from 1959/1964 the background presents some small or large squares...(here We have the 3 varieties present in this series)[plain , small squares, large squares background]..
The stamps that I present here , are , I think, all of the original set except the 20cr.. this last stamp is in very bad condition not only because of the perforation but also because of the horrible printing..
All of these stamps have 11.5 x 11 perforation.. I will not present in this case catalog numbers , because of the reasons explained above..(I'm following the National Catalog...]