Preview of Stamps Catalogue: VOLUME 2

POLAND LOCAL ISSUES

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Bialystok

Certified genuine

4 stamps were issued for Bialystock in 1916.

Sosnowice

Images obtained thanks to Krzysztof Ciesiul, reduced sizes, with typical cancels

(Reduced sizes)

  3 k blue
  3 k red with green bar
  10 k brown
  10 k blue with red bar

The stamps without bar were issued on 18th February 1916. They are cancelled with a date (see images above), which was applied before the stamps were pasted on the letters. All stamps were printed in sheets of 50. A postcard in a similar design exists: 5 k brown (also with black bar on the word 'Postkarte').

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	***	***

Sosnowice large triangle, inscription 'STADT MIASTO SOSNOWICE'

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
(-) red	**	**

Two local postcards were also issued in Sosnowice

Przedborz

An Austrian field post office existed in Przedborz during world war I. A local post was set up by the military authorities to bring civilian mail to Konsk. Mail was franked with Austrian field post stamps, and the local stamps were applied as proof of payment for the local delivery.

1918 Inscription 'MIASTO PRZEDBORZ STADT PRZEDBORZ 1917'

Genuine

  2 g red
  4 g blue

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	*	*

Forgeries exist, examples:

Forgery 1: accent on 'O' of right 'PRZEDBORZ' too large

Forgery 2: dot instead of accent on right 'PRZEDBORZ'

Various designs, townhall, bridge, marketplace and town arms

Value in groszy
  2 g green and light green
  2 g green
  4 g violet and red
  4 g red
  6 g blue and green
  6 g violet
  10 g red and lilac
  10 g blue

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	*	*

Value in halerzy

  5 h red
  10 h green
  15 h blue
  20 h violet

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	*	*

I have seen a forgery of the 5 h value, with the 'J' of 'MIESJKA' more curved at the bottom.

Checiny

Inscription 'POCZTA MIEJSKA M CHECINY HAL'

(Reduced size)

Other values exists, in total 8 different stamps were issued, for example: 2 h brown and yellow, 3 h red and yellow, 4 h green and yellow, 5 h black and yellow, 5 h orange and grey.

Zarkach

Inscription 'Poczta miejska w Zarkach'

  3 h blue
  5 h red
  6 h lilac
  10 h green
  12 h olive
  24 h orange

Surcharged (always on two stamps at the same time)

(Reduced size)

  '6 halerzy' on 3 h blue
  '10 halerzy' on 5 h red (see picture of 5 h)
  '24 halerzy' on 12 h olive

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	**	**

Warning: Many forgeries exist! It seems that only 5000 of these stamps were issued (most of the above stamps are probably forgeries!). In the genuine stamps the 'r' and the 'k' in 'Zarkach' should not touch each other. The genuine stamps should be perforated 11 1/2. The genuine stamps don't exist imperforated! If I'm well informed, of the three persons standing halfway the church, the most left person is shorter in the forgeries (and resembles a bear).

Left: zoom-in of forgery; Right: zoom-in of genuine stamp.

Forgeries.

Luboml

non issued locals

  5 p green
  10 p red
  20 p grey
  25 p blue
  50 p green

These stamps were prepared, but were never used. Cancelled stamps exist, but they were cancelled to order. Usually the stamps are perforated, but imperforate stamps exist (unfinished stamps). Stamps in other colours are proofs. 'Misprints' with inverted values, were intentionally made.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	*	-

These stamps were printed in blocks of 11, with 10 normal stamps, 1 stamp with inverted numerals and 1 empty space.

'Misprints' with inverted values.

Warsaw

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Zawierce

(1915)

Image obtained thanks to Krzysztof Ciesiul

  10 p grey and green (landscape with rising sun)
  20 p grey and brown (School building)

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
10 p	R	R
20 p	RR	RR

There seems to be 3 varieties of both these stamps. In between stamps the word 'Zawierce' is printed in violet fancy letters. I've seen a cancel consisting of a violet 'ZAWIERCE' in a straight line with no containing box.

The following stamp does not have the violet 'Zawierce' overprint between two stamps, it could be a forgery: