386th Auction

1919, Krakow Provisional Overprint 15 heller, together with unoverprinted 5 heller, tied by adapted blingual "KRAKOW 20.II.19" to money order from "TRZEBINIA 19.II.19". Fine and scarce. 

BELOSTOK (Poland): 10 kopeck brown and blue, good to large margins, used with pen cross and tied by boxed "BIALYSTOK 1858…", to blue piece. A very fine and rare usage on Polish soil. Signed Buchsbayew with certificate (2014)

BELOSTOK (Poland): 10 kopeck brown and blue, good to large margins, used on lettersheet with reverse side dispatch mark"BIALYSTOK 8 AUG.1858", to Warzaw; the stamp cancelled upon arrival twice by red c.d.s. "WARRSZAWA 21/8). Usual filing fold, not affecting the stamps. A fine and very rare entire; just few No.1-entires have been recorded from todays Polish soil. Certificate Buchsbayew 2014)
 

SUPRASL (Poland): 10 kopeck brown and blue, good to large margins, with sheet margin at right, tied by merchants handstamp "…SUPRASL" and in transit by boxed "BELOSTOK …", to lettersheet to Warsaw. The name in the address cut out, otherwise fine. The only recorded No.1-cover from this small village  one of very few entires recorded from todays Polish soil. Certificate Buchsbayew (2018)

Provenance: H.C. Goss (Robson Lowe 1958)

1858, WARSZAWA 8/8 c.d.s. in red on folded envelope with content, red FRANCO and red crayon “21” alongside, on reverse transit mark WIEN 10/8 and arrival mark of austrian Levant CONSTANTINOPLE 13/8. In three days from Vienna to Constantinople the only possible route is via Semlin and DDSG to Galatz Romania and Austrian Lloyd black sea to Turkey. File folds and toned through yellowish traces of vinegar for disinfection. PROFI has not recorded any earlier cover from Poland to Turkey

1860, 10 k. blue & rose, cancelled "209" (Lowicz) on piece, fine and scarce

1860, 10 kop. Blue/rose, fresh colour and good perforation, neatly cancelled "1" WARZAWA. Signed Franz

1918, Germania 10 pfg. light-pinkish-carmine, the overprint semi-glossy, bluish black in transmitted light, horizontal pair, position 47-48,, mint never hinged, very fine and rare, signed with certificate Korszen (2019) (Fischer Nr. 10IIba) In addition Germania 10 pfg. unused, signed Schmutz and Petriuk (Fischer Nr. 10IIa)

1918, Germania 20 pfg. blue with half-glossy overprint, mint never hinged, small natural inclusion, fine, scarce, signed Petriuk and Korszen with short-opinion (2018) (Fischer 12IIbax)

1918, Germania 30 pfg. in combination Eagle 20f., tied by cds. “SIERDAZU 18.3.19” to registered cover to Warsaw, fine, certificate Petriuk (2025)

1918, Germania 30 pfg. single and 60 pfg. as vertical strip of four tied by cds. “SOCHACZEW 22.3.19” to revers of double-weight value declared cover, front with provisional straight-line “Sochaczew” and handwritten registration number “N123” above, minor transportation wear, a very attractive and scarce entire, certificate Petriuk (2025)

1918, Germania 5 on 2½pfg., tied by cds. “WARSAWA 26.1.19” to wrapper adressed to the magistrate of Myslenice, slightly toned corner perf, otherwise fine, very scarce with only few wrappers known, certificate Petriuk (2025)

1918, Germania 25 on 7½pfg., with variety “dot in P of Poczta”, paying the registration fee, tied by cds. "WARSZAWA -6.2.19“ to postage-free registered cover, with pre-printed senders address ”GLOWNY URZAD STATYYSTYCZNY“ (Main Statistical Office), and red L2 ”SPRAWA URZEDOWA Wolna od oplaty" (=OFFICIAL MATTER Free of charge) alongside to Krakow with arrival mark, minor transportation wear, fine and attractive, certificate Petriuk (2025) (Fischer 13B5)

1918, 10h. on 30h. green-slate, tied by cds. “CHELM 20.I.19” to invalid postal stationery card to Warsaw, fine and scarce, signed Korszen and certificate Petriuk (2025)

1918, 10h. on 30h. green-slate, tied by cds. “KOZIENICE 3.III.19” to invalid postal stationery card to Warsaw, unsufficiently franked, thus oval postage due mark “POBRAC 30f WARSZAWA 1” applied upon arrival, filing holes at left, otherwise fine, scarce, certificate Petriuk (2025)

1918, 45h. on 60h. lilac-red in combination with Eagle 5h. green, tied by cds. “OSTROWIEC 5.II.19” to registered cover, the stamp with variety “long vertical printing bar", fine, certificate Petriuk (2025)

1918, 45h. on 80h. blue-slate, vertically bisected in such a way that only the old value “80” is visible, tied, as delivery fee, by cds. “KONSK 8.II.19” to reverse of parcel card from “OSTROWIEC -9.II.19”, very rare and attractive, signed Korszen and certificate Petriuk (2025)

1918, 50 h. in horizontal pair, each with a double overprint inverted, mint never hinged, very fine and rare, certificate Petriuk (2013) (Fischer-Nr. 28non)

1918, 90h. lilac, vertical bisected, right half, tied by cds. “DABROWA in POL. 10.II.19” to cover to Sosnowiec, slightly overfranked, scarce and fine, certificate Petriuk (2025)

1919, Krakow overprints, 30 h. lilac, plate IIB, pos.29, unused, very fine, private signature, certificate Petriuk (2025)

1919, Krakow Issue 50h. and 25 on 80h., the 50h. with variety “thin Z”, tied by cds. “LANCUT 3.IX.19” to money order for 20Kronen to Lemberg with arrival mark “LEMBERG LWOW -5.IX.19”, since the stamps had already lost their postage validity but were still officially used internally, they were circled in red and marked with the handwritten note “Zwrot opłatę 70 hal, Paraphe” (=return the fee of 70hal) in red, with the violet official seal “Post and Telegraph Inspection Office in Warsaw" alongside, slight transportation wear, overall in good condition, very rare and attractive, signed Krawczyk and certificate Petriuk (2025)

1921, Red Cross 10+30m. brown-carmine with additional franking, tied by cds. “WARSZAWA 26.4.21” to registered airmail cover to Prague with arrival mark, vertical fold and backflap missing, somewhat stained, otherwise a fine and very rare commercial cover, signed Petriuk with certificate (2025)

1946, International Education Bureau 3-11 zl. in miniature sheets of 12, mint never hinged, fine

1948, 160th Anniversary of the US Constitution, complete set in full sheetlets, mint never hinged, 120 zl. with a peripheral gum bend and a minor corner crease otherwise very fine, all signed Jungjohann BPP

Culture souvenir sheet with handstamp "GROSZY" in type 23, neatly cancelled "WARSZAWA 13.12.51", very fine, signed Falkowski and certificate Wysocki

1954, People´s Republic Anniversary complete sets in horizontal gutter pairs, 1,15 zl. with minor gum disturbance, mint never hinged, overall very fine, signed and certificate Petriuk BPP (1990)

“Cenz./Kontr.poczty, Ostrzeszów”, boxed two-line censor mark on postage-free envelope with senders cachet “Police…”, from “HAIDEBERG KR. SCHILDBERG, POSEN 14.5.19” to Berlin, cover slightly re-folded, otherwise fine, very scarce, signed Petriuk with certificate (2025)

“CENZURA LABISZYN”, black two-line censor mark on Germania postal stationery card 7½ pfg. with additional franking 2½ pfg., hoth the postcard and the stamp were invalid, but most likely a busy German postal worker forwarded the card without objection, used from “POSEN W. 18.5.19” to the district court in Labischin, fine and scarce, signed Petriuk with certificate (2025)

“CENZUROWANE / ODDZIAŁ IV / Sekcja Defenzywy / Referat Prasy i Cenzur”, black censor mark (=Brzozowski/Tokar type 1) on postcard from “WILNO 2 -7.XII.20” with adjacent cachet “2 Pul Art. Pol. Leg. 5 Baterja” to Sosnowiece, fine and rare, signed Petriuk with certificate (2025)

“Cenzura Szwadronu Technicznego / Pułku Jazdy Tatarskiej, dnia 18.1.1919. Podpis”, violet, boxed three-line cachet on postcard, with handwritten sender information “Reconnaissance Unit, Tatar Cavalry Regiment, 9th Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division, Field Post No. 24”,  with adjacent cds. “BRZESC LITWESKI 18 1 20” to Wielun, fine and scarce, a.o. signed Petriuk with certificate (2025)

“Dowodztwo Szpitala Chirurgicznego W.P. w Wilnie Amer. Czerw.Krzyz - American Red Cross”, violett three line-cachet on post card with cds. “GŁÓWNA POCZTA POLOWA No. VII -3.6.1920” to Krakow, very fine, unique card confirming the ARC activity on the eastern front, signed Petriuk with certificate (2025)

“STACJA ROZDZIELCZA / dla jeńców i internowanych w Kobrynie”, violet three-line cachet on postcard from “KOBRYŃ 1.5.1919” to Lublin, rverse with minor imperfections, otherwise fine. A rare piece of evidence of a Polish prisoner-of-war camp for Russian soldiers during the Polish-Russian War in 1919, signed Petriuk with certificate (2025)

“Grodno”, handwritten cancellation on postal stationery card 15f. red, dated “Grodno 2/5/1919” to Ostrowiec with arrival mark, reverse, a lot of text with a note that the sender has been called to the Committee for the Defense of the Eastern Borderlands (“Komitet Obrony Kresow Wschodnich”), a fine and interesting card, certificate Petriuk (2025) (Fischer Cp30a)

1920, “Cenzura Wojskowa”, polish military censor label tied by oval “Wr. I. / 55” seal to cover from Russia via Moscow to Baranowicze, very rare, sent during the very short period when a postal exchange with Russia was still definitely permitted before the Riga Treaty from March 1921
 

Scouts post: 1944, folded letter with violet scout cachet “POCZTA HARZERSKA” (type 2 from Warsaw-Pludine) and liac-red date mark “9.SIERP.1944”, good condition, extreme rare. This scout cancel was only used on 6.8. and 9.8. and ist one of the great postmark rarieties during the Warsaw Uprising, signed Petriuk BPP with certificate (1990)

1919, 5h. red, horizontal strip of five, position 71-75, tied by cds. “KRAKAU 4.II.19” to local registered cover with return receipt, the other stamp small faults due to being applied over the edge, some minor transportation wear, a very rare cover, signed Mikstein and certificate Petriuk (2025)