Documents auctions

OPAŁEK Mieczysław - Former cafes and tractyers. Lviv [before 1939, author's manuscript of the poet]. Manuscript on handmade paper, 13 pp. Dimensions 35 x 24.7 cm. In addition, attached are 2 cards, including one double-sided, with a bibliography of engravings of Lviv dining establishments in 19th-20th century publications. A manuscript in the form of a prepared table with a list of 69 Lviv c...
Original letter from Napoleon Bonaparte - a secret instruction on the Polish issue, prepared for negotiations with the court of Vienna, addressed to Ambassador Andréossy . The document is written in brown ink on paper, dated and written in Poznan (Posen), December 1, 1806. The fourth page bears Napoleon's handwritten signature along with an autograph of the place and date: "à Posen le 1er De...
Legitimation Silver Cross of the Order of War Virtuti Militari number 611 (5th class), so called "railroad"; Issued in the name of Colonel Stanislaw Schuster - Kruk - commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment of the Land of Cracow and the KOP Brigade "Wilno". https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Schuster - Kruk Key dates: August 16, 1914 joined the Polish Legions March 1, 1918 promoted t...
Legitimation issued in 1941 in Jerusalem by the printing house of the Franciscan Fathers, containing explanatory notes, a decree and a completed translation of the diploma awarding the Papal Cross of Honor to pilgrims to the Holy Land. Pieces were issued on June 20, 1942 to a Polish lieutenant named Sobakow, confirming the awarding of the decoration in the rank of silver. Dimensions: 11cm x 7c...
[SIEMIRADZKI Henryk] Visit ticket of Henryk Siemiradzki, artist-painter. Dimensions: 5.2 x 9.2 cm. On the obverse, notes in pencil in Russian, most likely in the hand of the artist himself: "To Moscow to the commission [...] of the Council of Christ the Savior. Henryk Siemiradzki took an active part in decorating the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, which was connected with his trip t...
General National Exhibition Poznań 1929.Wedding in Kurpie region. Regional theater.May-June outdoor show. Dimensions 16 x 23,5 cm
Save the children! Great nationwide fundraiser from 3rd to 10th of June 1917/ Lit.W.Główczewski Warsaw/ 13,5x19cm/ one-sided printing/ very good condition, traces of folding The Central Welfare Council (Rada Główna Opiekuńcza ) was the most important Polish self-help organization operating during World War I in the Kingdom of Poland. It was established in 1916 and was in charge of helping...
Political programs (elections to the Sejm and Senate in Warsaw in March 1928)/ Drukarnia Akademica in Warsaw/ 1928/ one-sided print/ 31x23cm/ good condition, traces of folding, supplementation with bookbinding paper, small scratches on edges Election print of the Catholic-National Bloc, issued in connection with the March 1928 elections to the Sejm and Senate in Warsaw. The leaflet compares an...
[CYRANKIEWICZ Józef] Visiting ticket of Józef Cyrankiewicz. Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Dimensions 6.2 x 10.5 cm. Jozef Cyrankiewicz (1911-1989) - was a Polish socialist and then communist politician who went down in history as the longest serving Prime Minister of Poland (over 21 years in total, in two terms: 1947-1952 and 1954-1970). He also served as Chairman of the Council of S...
[Krzemieniec - Tkaczynski Pharmacy]. A collection of documents and photographs pertaining to the Tkaczynski family of pharmacists in the Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. The collection includes, among others: 1. a book of professional personnel of the Tkaczynski Pharmacy from the 1920s, with a large lacquer seal of the Krzemieniec District of the Republic of Poland on the last page a...
"Królowa Luiza" coal mine in Zabrze - mining records and documents of the Donnersmarck family Royal Central Administration of Mines, 19th century A unique and extensive collection of 19th century files related to the history of mining in Upper Silesia, the activities of the "Królowa Luiza" Coal Mine in Zabrze and the administration of the royal mining industry. Of particular interest are do...
Kielce.Cegelec for the Social Fund for the Construction of the Monument to the Fighters for Social and National Liberation in 1939-1945 denomination 10 zloty.
Set of 8 documents of Stanislaw Wisna b. 09.10.1897 in Objezierz d. 24 mar 1988 - seven of them are Wielkopolska Uprising diplomas and diplomas on successive anniversaries of the Uprising and congratulations related to it. One after passing the Railway Military Training exam.1 Greater Poland Uprising Diploma No. 8670 - Association of Veterans of National Uprisings 1914 - 1919, frame.2. Diplom...
An archival set of documents from 1947-1955 concerning Sylwester Dyksa, a professional driver from Bialystok and a repatriate. The collection includes driver's licenses, medical certificates and certificates of employment with Polish Radio and communications transport. A key item is a confirmation of military credentials issued by British authorities, documenting the post-war process of verify...
A highly interesting and unusual Cold War-period numismatic document, consisting of a mailing from the Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR to a private individual in the United States, accompanied by a letter dated 5 October 1972. Of particular significance is the statement of the reported mintage for the annual Soviet coin set of improved quality - 10,000 pieces - together with a list of other...
We don't give Silesia (fundraising window sticker)/ 10 x 11 cm/ Zakł. Graf. Z. Sakierski, Warsaw/ one side printed in color/ very good condition-, two small holes, small fold of the edge Fundraising window sticker from the period of the struggle for the belonging of Upper Silesia, maintained in an expressive, patriotic-propaganda formula. The composition combines the slogan "We don't give Sil...
Set of documents, letters and immortelle after Lt. res. Wladyslaw Klimowicz. the set includes: 1. immortal - plastic, 35 mm. Very good condition. 2. 8 (eight) letters and postcards. a). Wladislaw's letter to his wife, 13.10.1939; b). Wladislaw's letter to his wife, 24.11.1939; c). Wladislaw's letter to his wife, 26.12.1939; d). Letter from Jozef Plotkowiak to Elżbieta Klimowicz, 22.5.1941; e)...
Invitation to the festivities commemorating the tenth anniversary of LOPP 14 - 21.05. 1933 / Lviv 12.05.1933 / 36,5 x 11,8 cm / very good condition; soiled; traces of folding Invitation to the celebration commemorating the tenth anniversary of LOPP, which took place from 14 - 21.05. 1933 in Lviv. The Lviv Board of the LOPP Provincial Committee was responsible for the organization. The program...
one sided color print/ published by J.Burof, Nowy Świat 47/ Warsaw 1916/ 20,5x17,5cm/ very good condition Patriotic print on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Constitution of the 3rd of May.
[STARZYÑSKI Stefan] Stefan Starzynski Visiting Ticket. Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Treasury | kindly thanks for the gracious wishes sent. Dimensions 5 x 10.3 cm. Traces of glue tape. Stefan Starzyński (1893-1939) politician, economist, publicist, during WWI officer of the First Brigade of the Legions, participant in the Bolshevik War, MP, senator, deputy minister of the Tr...
[LETTER]. Typescript letter on the letterhead of the Main Board of the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society in Warsaw. Letter addressed to Urszula Rolska. Content : Dear colleague! In connection with the approaching end of the year, we would like to thank you sincerely for your commitment and dedicated work for the good of our Society, at the same time attaching wishes for health, prosperity...
[HAÑCZA Wladyslaw] Visiting ticket of Wladyslaw Hancza with handwritten dedication, 1959. On the obverse a handwritten dedication by the actor: "- to the lovely Castellanowa on Her Feast Day 1959". Dimensions 6 x 10.7 cm. Władysław Hańcza (1905-1977) - prominent Polish theater and film actor and director, considered one of the icons of postwar Polish cinema.
[SIENKIEWICZ Henryk] A handwritten brief of a letter from Henryk Sienkiewiecz to the artist-sculptor Cyrpian Godebski regarding the circumstances of the Adam Mickiewicz monument in Warsaw. Second half of 1897 Manuscript in pen on handmade paper, 4 pp. Letter with monogram signature at the end "H. S.". Dimensions 14 x 10.5 cm. Letter not dated. Small tear at the folding point, otherwise good co...
Diploma Association of 1st Armored Division Circles, in blank; 29.2 x 39cm. Original blank with seal and signature! General Stanislaw Maczek. Very good condition.
Racibórz / Rudyszwałd - awarding of the Cross of Honor of the German Mother of the Second Class along with the decoration. Berlin, October 1, 1939 [Third Reich - Silesia - occupation period ]. Original document of the awarding of the Cross of Honor of the German Mother of the Second Class (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter) together with the preserved decoration. Issued in Berlin on October 1,...
Telegram. Wishes for the bride and groom. Torun 22. X. 38 r. "To the dear bride and groom...Taddeus Scouting. Torun 22. X. 38 r. Color print 1 p. Dimensions 31 x 22.5 cm.
[Maritime and Colonial League] Telegram from the president of the Torun District of the Maritime and Colonial League to Mr. Bernard Piatkowski with wishes on the occasion of his wedding. Torun, on October 22, 1938. The sender of the telegram was, President Jan Zakrzewski, notary. Color print 1 s. Dimension 22 x28 cm.
A two-sided card, numbered 14710, issued by the Command of the 2nd Corps of the Polish Armed Forces in the West (Personnel Branch). The document confirms the right to wear the Bronze Cross of Merit with Swords, awarded posthumously to Corporal Czeslaw Zamiara, who served in the 2nd Carpathian Rifle Battalion. The awarding of the decoration was made under the personnel order of the Commander of...
Family album - Marian Antoni Badzinski - Senior Clerk of the Grodzki Court in Torun, Torun II RP [ law, judiciary ]. Album containing more than 50 photographs and postcards [ Gdańsk ], as well as a large-format photograph from the 21st Congress of Judges and Prosecutors of the Supreme Court in Poznań on February 4, 1939. Album format : 26 x 40 [cm]. + Document portfolio belonging to Secretar...
German identity card (Personalausweis) issued to an employee [ actor ] of the State Theatre of the General Government - Krakow Theatre, 1940 [ General Government ]. Perfect condition. Format : 8 x 12 [cm]. Rarity.
[Catalog of various fruit trees from the turn of the 18th / 19th century] Catalogue of various fruit trees known for sale from the artful gardener Jan Samuel Eichler in Glushkovce, Proskurivsky district of Podolskiey Gubernia, near the town of Solobkovets 1 mile from the postal town of Yarnoliniec, and 5 miles from Kamieniec Podolskiy. [n.m. and d. publ.] S. 22. Dimensions 21.4 x 17 cm. Lack o...
[Catalog of Fruit Trees from the End of the 18th Century] A Collection of all the Fruit Trees that are in the Osiecki Castle Garden,of which the preceding Species are partly from foreign countries, partly from the preceding gardens with great care and expense are imported. Maciey Prohaska, the Honorable Baron Larysz's court gardener in the Osiek Garden. [Osiek 1799] S. 4. Dimensions 25 x 20 cm...
District Complementary Komenda Uzplementnień Żywiec - Polish Army - Bielsko / Brzeszcze 1936 [ seal, signature Major Jan Klos ]. Document and post card - response to a letter for shortening active military service. Very good condition.
Pastoral letter issued by Jozef Grzegorz Wojtarowicz, Bishop of Tarnów, Tarnów 1840. Handmade paper, very good condition, Letter in Polish and a separate sheet in Latin. Number of pages : 6 and 6 Format : 23 x 32 [cm].
Pastoral letter by Francis de Paula , Bishop of Tarnów, Tarnów 1833 Handmade paper, very good condition, Letter in Polish language. Number of pages : 8 Format : 23 x 32 [cm].
Pastoral letter issued by Joseph Alojzy , Bishop of Tarnów, Tarnów 1855. Handmade paper, very good condition, Letter in Polish language. Number of pages : 4 Format : 23 x 32 [cm].
Journal of Announcements of the City of Warsaw/ no.28(45), 9.VIII.1940/ Miodowa 23, City Printing House/ p.11/ pieces partly uncut/ very good condition, underlining in pencil. Rare Journal of announcements of the City of Warsaw dated August 9, 1940- documenting one of the first stages of the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto. Ludwig Leist's ordinance of August 7, 1940 regulated the forced resettle...
Court Resolution Wadowice Court - Obligations of Countess Elżbieta Wielopolska, Anna Z Hrabiów Branickich and others to the Zebrzydowski Convent of the Brothers of Mercy, Wadowice 1927 Number of pages : 4 Format : 21 x 30 [cm]
Okólnik C.K. Rządu Krajowego Galicyjskiego  - Śmierć Cesarza Franciszka I, wyciąg z Testamentu Najjaśniejszego Władcy, Tarnów 1855  Papier czerpany, stan bardzo dobry, ilośc stron : 4 Format : 21 x 32 [cm] Rzadkość.  *Kurenda, okólnik, cyrkularz, pismo okólne – rodzaj urzędowego pisma obiegowego, które wysyłane jest do wszystkich zainteresowanych stron. Zawiera...
[Nazi OCCUPATION] Zutritt nur für Deutsche! [Admission only for Germans!] Printed matter originating in the General Government. Second World War period. Two-color print on thicker paper. Dimensions 36.5 x 28.5 cm. Losses and erosions of margins without damage to the text. Full text of the announcement: Zutritt nur für Deutsche! Nichtdeutschen ist der Zutritt bei Geldstrafe bis zu Z1. 5.000- ...
Adolf Klêsk - Handbook for the study of Hygiene for the butchery profession, Krakow late 19th century Loose pages, condition + sufficient Number of pages : 32 Format : 25 x 32 [cm]
Rückkehrerausweis (return card) - Third Reich 1942 Used to confirm the official recognition of a person as entitled to return or settle in areas annexed by the Third Reich. Material : linen. Overall condition very good. Format : 10.5 x 14.5 [cm].
[ZAKOPANE] A set of Stanislaw Karpowicz restaurant memorabilia. Zakopane, early 20th century to k. 1930s. The set includes: - platter from Henneberg Brothers factory, size: 8 x 23.5 x 23.5 cm. On the collar of the platter engraving: "ST. KARPOWICZ | ZAKOPANE", while on the bottom of the platter there is the label of the factory and the number "1496"; - menu cover with company imprint "Restaura...
Pastoral letter by Franciszek Xawery Zachariasiewicz , Bishop of Tarnów, Tarnów 1836 Handmade paper, very good condition, Letter in Polish and a separate sheet in Latin. Number of pages : 4 and 4 Format : 23 x 32 [cm].
Patriotic telegram. For national purposes. "Education, Diligence, Work, Sobriety.... Consciousness of the People - Will Make a Miracle." 1908 r. On the av. handwritten wishes: Happiness and God's blessing wishes the bride and groom Pietruszyński, Szoldry. On the reverse side, postage stamp and addressee: almighty Mr. Roman Wąsowicz Buki. Dimensions 21 x 24 cm. Edgewear, loss of l. d. corner.
[POLICE OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC, WALKING AGAINST THE COMMUNIST] Socio-political guide of the Vilnius province. Compiled by the Public Security Department of the Vilnius Provincial Office. For official use only. Vilnius 1927. imprinted at the "Znicz" dukery. Pp. 51. height 21 cm. Lack of binding. Cross-outs on title page. In contents: Political parties, operating in the Vilna province; Communist...
LESZCZYŃSKI Stanisław (1677-1766), King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine. Document from the period of the siege of Danzig in 1734 during the War of the Polish Succession, autographed by the King of Poland.Manuscript with the autograph of King Stanislaw Leszczynski, directly related to the history of Gdansk and the period of the siege of the city in March 1734, during the war of succession to t...
[MATEJKO Jan] Visiting ticket of Jan Matejko, artist-painter. Dimensions 5.5 x 9.5 cm. Stained upper left corner. Jan Matejko (1838-1893) - the most outstanding Polish historical painter, whose works shaped the national imagination about key events in the history of Poland. Associated with Krakow for most of his life, he served as director of the School of Fine Arts there.
[STRUG Spółka Akcyjna. Fabryka Mebli. Grudziądz] Set of advertising leaflets, price lists and bills of the Strug company from Zakopane. Interwar period. Advertising flyers, printed 2 p., 8 copies. Przemysł Drzewny "Strug" Spółka Akcyjna in Zakopenem. (Branch office: Grudziądz, 30 Wybickiego St.). Dimensions 12 x 16 cm. Also: company price lists, a bill issued to Lieutenant Stefan Kozins...
Diploma of the awarding of the Order of Virtuti Militari - in blanco; 42.5 x 24.5cm. Original printing. Very good condition.
Speech of Reich Leader and Chancellor Adolf Hitler delivered on September 19, 1939 in Danzig [Danzig, 1939]. P. 15. height 20 cm. Unbound booklet. Speech delivered by Hitler to Germans living in the "Danzig Land".
[FOGG Mieczyslaw] Autographed visiting ticket. Mieczyslaw Fogg Artist-singer. Warsaw 16 m 2 Wyzwolenia Avenue Poland. Dimension 4.8 x 9.5 cm.On the reverse autograph: Mieczyslaw Fogg Warsaw 7.II.74. Mieczyslaw Fogg, original name Fogiel (1901- 1990) lyrical baritone singer whose artistic career began in the interwar period and continued for several decades after the end of World War II.
Patriotic Telegram. For national purposes! "Still the cup of our plight has many drops. One must suffer, drink slowly, drink to the bottom" [Coats of arms of Lithuania and the Crown]. Telegram 1 p., printed in color chromolithography. Contains wishes, inscribed on the obverse: "God bless the young couple". Dimensions 18.7 x 25.7 cm. Traces of a fold.
Driver's license of the Polish Army in the East allowing the driving of military trucks, issued in 1943 with stamps of the Command of the Polish Army in the East issued to platoon sergeant Tomasz Melka, soldier of the 12th Geographical Company, awarded the Monte Cassino Memorial Cross number 47395. Dimensions: 10cm x 13cm. General condition as in the photos.
Dimensions: 82 x 120 mm. Fold marks and creases.
[Nowe Selo] Legitimation for Janusz Petro, deputy editor-in-chief of the journal "Nowe Selo" in Lviv. Lviv 6. XI. 1937 Legitimation 4 p. with dimensions 11,5 x 8 cm. Contains photo of Janusz Petro and entries of the editor-in-chief of the journal and stamps confirming the extension at the end of 1938.
Headbands approx. 45x11cm, envelope approx.16x11.5cm/ condition of headbands very good, traces of folding; condition of envelope average, tears Set of three official headbands of the Stołeczny Komitet Samopomocy Społecznej (SKSS), an organization established in September 1939 to coordinate social assistance in Warsaw. The headband is made of light-colored fabric, printed in green: "SAMOPOMOC...
[LENGREN Zbigniew] Zbigniew Lengren. Brzozowa 6/8a 00-286-Warsaw [handwritten visiting ticket with map, drawn by the artist. Dimensions 7.3 x 7.3 cm. Minor soiling. On the reverse side, author's map of "how to get" to the apartment of Z. Lengren. Zbigniew Lengren (1919-2003) satirist, graphic artist and cartoonist, author of caricatures, aphorisms and epigrams, as well as posters, book and pre...
[Rudolf MÊKICKI, Czarna Kamienica] Renaissance tenements Rynek 4 and 6 (Historical sketch). Author's manuscript by Rudolf Mękicki [Lviv, not before IX 1939]. Manuscript on paper 8 and 8 pp. (pagination divided, for each study). Dimensions 27 x 23 cm. Minor yellowing and soiling of paper. Written with great expertise, the articles are devoted to two pearls of the Lviv Renaissance: the Black T...
Certificate of graduation from the Sanitary NCO School of the 5th Border Infantry Division, attached to the 5th Sanitary Company, in blank; 27.6 x 31cm. Original blank. Good condition, slight damage - folds and tears.
[MÊKICKI Rudolf] Set of 4 postcards written by Rudolf Mękicki to his loved ones living in the manor house in Firlejów, near Rohatyn. Dated. 20, 27 August 1930 and 15 December 1930. Set of 4 letters from Rudolf Mękicki to his wife Julia Mękicki and children Krystyna and Juliusz Mękicki. Correspondence with circulation. Part of letters with own stamp. J. Mękicki. In letters to his daughte...
Driver's license of the Polish Army in the East allowing the driving of military trucks, issued in 1943 with stamps of the Command of the Polish Army in the East issued to Armored Mieczyslaw Zebrowski of the 6th Armored Regiment "Children of Lwow". The driver's license comes from a set of memorabilia of Mieczyslaw Zebrowski of the 6th Armored Regiment "Children of Lwow". Dimensions: 10cm x 13c...
[MÊKICKI Rudolf] A guide to Lviv. Author's typescript by Rudolf Meczicki. [Lviv, before 1942] Typescript, 21 pp. Dimensions 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Folds of part of pages, small stains here and there. Unpublished typescript of a short guide to Lviv by Rudolf Meczicki (1887-1942), a prominent Polish museologist and curator. The author described, among other things, the Main Square and the most importa...