Poland: Kingdom Of Poland, Essay

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Nice floortrader. Sometimes the designs found on essays and proofs were more interesting and fancier than the finished product on the actual stamp

Chimo

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floor, these are great! I don't think I've ever seen them before.

My one cavil regarding the captioning would be to say that the kingdom was proposed (rather than created.)

There's a lot more to this. First, some history.

In 1795 the Kingdom of Poland was divided into three & ruled by Prussia (eventually Germany), Austria & Russia - Poland ceased to exist until 1918. Stamps of the respective countries were used in their respective areas & clearly cancelled copies are keenly sought after by Polish collectors.

In 1915 the Russian part was occupied by Germany & Austria & split into two, the Northern German part used German stamps overprinted "Russisch-Polen" & then "Gen-Gouv Warschau", the Southern Austrian part used generic Austrian "KUK" stamps. This state of affairs lasted until Independence on Nov 11 1918.

In January 1918, an Art Show was organised in Warsaw to display a number of essays/projects for stamps of a proposed Kingdom of Poland. Catalogues were produced illustrating 144 essays & were available in four different colours, brown, green, black & blue (with different coloured covers), except for the last couple of pages which had 13 essays in colour.

Here's a cover



Page 31 which illustrates your top examples, author unknown.


Colour pages


I don't have a scan of page 34 so can't tell who the designer of your bottom examples was.

To some up, what you have are catalogue cutouts & not essays in the strict sense of the word. These are quite collectable, cutouts are commonly found, complete catalogues go for around $500, but you'll need the four different colours to be complete & that's a serious challenge.

Here's a link to a PDF which explains everything in more detail - it's in Polish though..http://phila-club.com/ipf/upload/89...ol%20Pol.pdf

Thanks YeaPolska ,I will add the information on my album page . To sum up what your says is that four different booklets were made in different colors with each having the same colored stamps in the back pages. This booklet was made for a art exhibition which showed the stamps of a purpose KINGDOM of POLAND .
Doing some follow up I have found these "proofs" being sold by a major New York stamp auction firm at $100.00 per set of stamps ,so it looks like they have good value and sold as "proofs".
Just a side note to other readers ,these stamps are on thin paper ,much thinner than paper that would be used for printing a booklet and none of my copies have any kind of printing on the reverse side ,so that would throw off anybody into thinking what YeaPolska said about being cutouts from a booklet .

Floor - yet another fascinating thread a little of mainstream, thanks for sharing.. It helped me to identify one specimen in my 'mystery-stamp' book.



...and collected by other postmark-nerds (including myself).
YeaPolska - a sharp history lesson. The history of Poland and all her divisions is complex and hunted by turmoil - perfectly suited for interesting postal history as well.

Yes, floortrader, you've got it - four catalogues, each in a different colour, but with the same coloured stamps at the back, & yes, very collectable indeed

So for these essays,is it proper to present it on Themetic exhibition? Does FIP recognize these essays (accepted or unaccepted)

Well, these are not true essays, but rather illustrations/reproductions of essays. If you could get hold of the original essays then they could be included in an exhibit, but I suspect these are long gone & only these copies are available. It would be like taking any catalogue or stamp magazine, cutting out a relevant illustration, & putting that into an exhibit. I don't think that would be admissible.

Here's my humble showing of two of these cutouts


Your comment about "essays (accepted or unaccepted)" bears a little more exploration.

None of these essays were accepted as such, the proposed Kingdom of Poland under German jurisdiction never materialised. What happened is that Poland gained independence on 11 Nov 1918 & some of these essays were indeed used, with modifications, for the new republic.

The Eagle essay, above left, was used as the basis of the infla set 1921-24. Here's an imperf proof of Scott 163 from 1921

Thanks again, Yea Polska ,for that additional information . This is what makes the best of this chat room ,when others help each other identify and explain the vast world of philately .

How about this one,is it reprint or original

Very nice, that is page 27 that has been cut out of the catalogue, so a reprint. The designer is noted as Antoni (Eugeniusz) Dzierzbicki (1887 - 1959), his water colour paintings come up for sale every so often.

In the picture I posted in last come t,who is the general in the bottom left?
Also this picture you posted,is that a calvaryman in Napoleonic time?

It's General Jan Henryk Dabrowski (1755-1818). He was the founder of the Polish Legions in Italy serving under Napoleon. We have Dabrowski's Mazurka from this period which became the Polish national anthem - "Poland has not perished yet".

He shows up on several Polish stamps including this one from Poland's first issue post WWII, Scott 341


This is a portrait from Wiki


And a link to the wiki site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_H...C4%85browski

That cavalry man is a Polish Hussar as identified by the feathered wings behind him & would have been before the Napoleonic era. The main thought is that the feathered wings would howl as the cavalry was charging & frighten the enemy.

Here's a better scan.


A couple of stamps from 1973 featuring the wings, Scott 1949 & 1963


A very good wiki article about the Polish Hussars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_hussars

The feathered wings have inspired the insignia of the Polish Army's Armoured Division.

Polish postcard from 1963 commemorating the battle of Studzianki in WWII

thanks my friend,how about this one,this piece is in the same sheet as the last one...this piece looks like polish lanciers during Napoleonic era.what do you think?

hello all , I have , so I think a few 60 to 80 nice old polish stamps , I am unable to post here since apparently firefox has a glitch and it does not work , however, I am happy to send my polish stamps for discussion to one of you and you could please post those up for me and maybe we cam make someone happpy ?