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SERBEÑSKI Antoni, OSTRZESZÓW. letter dated August 28, 1953; correspondence concerns a painting lost in 1939, depicting poppies and cornflowers against the background of the Polish countryside - Serbeński sent another view in its place: [...] please accept the small watercolor - I wish that this little thing, in a moment [...] difficult, will fulfill its role well [...]; st. bdb.; dimensions...
Dimensions: 16 x 24 cm Condition as shown in the photos.
Dimensions: 16 x 25 cm Condition as shown in the photos.
KOSSAK Jerzy. Letter dated April 15, 1948; condition bdb., original envelope attached (stamp torn out, soiled); 4 pp. (text on one); dimensions 215x305 mm; Dear Sir! In response to Sz. Pan's letter, I report that I could paint a picture of the content you asked for, in an indifferent technique, for five thousand zlotys. If you agree I will send within a week for an advance payment. I remain in...
Dimensions: 32 x 28 cm Condition as shown in the photos.
KRAKOW. Legitimation of Wladyslaw Susul as a member of the Grzegórzec Sports Club in Cracow for 1928, p. 4, stamp: Grzegórzec Sports Club in Cracow; st. db., soiling, dimensions approx. 80x118 mm.
A set of 49 RAILWAY TICKETS from the 1960s onward.
MEHOFFER Joseph. Postal card dated May 7, 1945; Polish Post stamp already affixed on occupation blank; military censorship stamp; Mehoffer writes: May you [...] let these things go as you can, so long as you have the rescue you need at present. Nowadays, people sell paintings sometimes forced by circumstances - below value - and such a sale, made in Czestochowa, will not have much effect on th...
SCOTLAND. Letter from a Polish soldier to his daughter sent from Scotland, where he remained after 1945 (date of posting: 21.12.1946); p. 4, letter illustrated with a drawing of the barracks where he lived, in the contents a very detailed description of the barracks, attached a handwritten watercolor (the Camaldolese church in Bielany); hardly visible traces of folding of the letter, st. db., ...
WARSAW. Order by the suffragan bishop administrator of the Archdiocese of Warsaw A. Białobrzeski dated 29.09.1857 of thanksgiving service after the birth of Olga daughter of Konstantin Nikolayevich Romanov and Princess Alexandra, handwritten, double-sided; stains, tear at bottom without damage to text, bend in upper right corner; dimensions ca. 193x310 mm. Priest Antoni Białobrzeski played a...
MEHOFFER Joseph. Letter dated March 21, 1944.; the artist thanks you for the parcels of twine, with which there were terrible troubles in Cracow and it was needed for Mrs. Mitschen; he asks for a bill [...] without delaying, because bills always have to be balanced, otherwise a shame; he goes on to write about the paper samples sent: This larger one [...] is the perfect drawing paper that I us...
Czeslaw MILOSZ. Commemorative envelope, International Book Day(Internationales Jahr des Buches 1972), autographed by C. Milosz; condition bdb; dimensions 164x95 mm.
DĄBIE (Kolo district). Application for a petroleum certificate, dated 20.02.1942, entitling Jozef Kryskiewicz, resident of Dąbie (then: Eichstädt), to use kerosene for lighting purposes; one-sided print supplemented by manuscript and stamp of Adolf Woltmann, entrepreneur; traces of folding of sheet, minor paper loss near right edge, sheet dimensions: ca. 210x295 mm. Antrag auf Ausstellung e...
TORUŃ. Kenkarta issued on 24.10.1944 to Leszek Skonieczny residing in Torun; photo p.b., stamp: Der Polizeidirektor..., pasted-in list issued by the Municipal Board of the Population Registration Office (18.04.1945), recognizing L. Skonieczny as a registered resident of Torun, entitled to reside in the city; 4 pp, softcover, spine tears, lower corners bent, yellow spots, dimensions 103x148 mm.
MEHOFFER Joseph. Letter dated December 17, 1945; he writes: It's been a long time since you had a letter from me, because [...] on the one hand my wife's illness, [...] on the other hand arranging my exhibition, which included several dozen things, including several large paintings, cartons, portraits, etc. I was properly tired of all this [...]; from the letter it appears that Iwański also c...
CHEŁMŻA (near Toruń) - Oflag XI B W Bergen-Belsen. Letter sent by Wanda and Alojzy to an Oflag prisoner on 31.05.1940, whom they address as "Miecz" (Mieczyslaw); p. 4, handwritten in German, censorship stamp: Oflag XI / B Geprüft; trace of folding, creases, dimensions approx. 145x213 mm. Rare.
GREATER POLAND. Obituary of Barbara of Mankowski Kwilecka (descendant of Jan Henryk Dabrowski), who died in 1910, photograph and quotations from religious works, on verso image of altarpiece; minor edge tears, dimensions: approx. 78x125 mm.
SACHSENHAUSEN. Correspondence of a prisoner of the German Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Wladyslaw Bąkowski: 1) letter addressed to him on 27.11.1944 from Pruszkow, loss of lower right corner, folding trace, stains, dimensions ca. 145x98 mm; 2) letter to wife Mieczysława Bąkowska dated 04.02.1945, folding trace. Both with camp censorship stamp: K. L. Sachsenhausen Postzensurstelle, dimen...
POZNAŃ. Document releasing Kazimierz Majewski of Poznań from captivity in Stalag III B, 7.07.1940; camp commandant's signature and stamp, double-sided print in German. and Polish; traces of folding and tears in places of folding, small folds in corners, dimensions ca. 210x148 mm.
INOWROCŁAW. Application for a police population statement (German: Anmeldung zur polizeilichen Einwohnererfassung) for Leszek Skonieczny residing in Inowrocław; double-sided print in Polish and German, official stamp and fingerprint and handwritten signature of Leszek Skonieczny; spots, traces of folding, tears in places of folding, size approx. 143x210 mm.
LANDLORD OF Greater Poland - Budziejewo (Wągrowiec district). Obituary of Teodor Swinarski (1845-1916), owner of Budziejewo estate, landowner and social activist; pasted portrait (photo), quotes from religious works, cross on verso; minor soiling, dimensions ca. 73x113 mm.
upper Silesia. Letter from the Polish Society for Relief of War Victims, dated 30.12.1920, signed by Stanislaw Belza (1849-1929), a cultural activist in Silesia, lawyer, writer, traveler and brother of Wladyslaw Belza, printed and typescript, stamp with inscription: Silesia must be ours; tears and trace of flooding, traces of folding, yellow spots; dimensions approx. 218x280 mm.
VILNA - Pohulanka. Advertisement for a New Year's ball at the Artistic Redoubt in Pohulanka placed on a sheet from an unspecified newspaper with Vilnius advertisements; sheet folded many times, tear where folded, dimensions when unfolded approx. 300x625 mm.
DOBIEGNIEW, Bern. Card from the Swiss Committee for Aid to Polish Prisoners of War to Boguslaw Szczęsnowicz, POW in Oflag II C Woldenberg; double-sided print with handwritten annotations and the stamp of the censorship and the International Red Cross, folding trace, st. db., dimensions ca. 148x105 mm. Rare.
RUSSIA, Austria-Hungary - JUDAICA. Propaganda text in Yiddish. Yiddish; addressed to the Jewish community in Russia in the context of Austria-Hungary's war against Russia during World War I; possibly written by special units in charge of Austro-Hungarian propaganda in order to win the support of the Jewish population in Russian-occupied territories; there are elements of familiarity with Jewis...
HARCERTY. ZHP Pledge Booklet, published by "Ka De Ha", Poznań, after 1945; p. 56, unfilled, inside loose two forms - report from a meeting or trip; soft binding with creases and small tears, st. db., dimensions approx. 105x150 mm.
USSR, PRL. Set of documents related to the repatriation of Aleksandra Weysennhoff (from a well-known landowning family) to Poland in 1956, st. db., various sizes: 1-3) documents of the Soviet combine - completion of a course, certificate of work from 1955 (on one a note dated 28.01.1959; 4-5) Letter of guarantee from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the arrival of A. Weysennhoff to P...
KATOWICE - Giesche SA. Free Association of Mutual Funeral Benefit of Officials and Officers of the Giesche Joint Stock Company. Articles of Incorporation, 1934; Giesche SA - a heavy industry company in interwar Poland; pp. 14 + 15, Polish text and translation in German with separate pagination; soft binding, soiled and deteriorated, untitled, printing errors instead of pp. 5-6 of Polish text p...
LVIV. Blanket with inscription of the Decorative Bureau of the Eastern Trade Fair in Lviv - it was an annual exhibition of Polish and foreign industry in 1921-1939; traces of folding, sheet yellowed in places, upper right corner fold, dimensions approx. 225x278 mm.
Dimensions: 12x15 cm, 20 pages Condition as in the photos.
TORUŃ. Air raid alert pass for Leszek Skonieczny as an employee of a military ammunition factory (25.06.1944); at the bottom, handwritten signature of Hauptmann and stamp: Heeres-Munitionsanstalt Thorn; folding trace, st. db., dimensions ca. 148x103 mm. Ausweis Nr. 69 (bei Fliegeralarm).
Format 44.5x58 cm, single-sided printing. Good condition (traces of folding, soiling on the reverse). Diploma of graduation from the Y.M.C.A. School of Automobile Drivers, which began operations in June 1921. In the first year of the school's operation, out of 1500 students, only 241 were certified. The course was completed with a good grade by Jozef Milewski. At the bottom of the diploma are ...
TORUŃ. Nacht-Passierschein ... - night pass dated 30.09.1942 for Leszek Skonieczny, allowing him to move around the city between 9 and 5 a.m.; police stamp, on verso two stamps of the state police of the Gdansk-West Prussia District, confirming payment of administrative costs; trace of folding, minor edge tears, st. db., dimensions ca. 145x103 mm.
LODZ - ghetto - Judaica. Medical certificate dated 9.12.1940, handwritten: Sick Lejbus Glicklich age 29 receives manna, milk, sugar, white bread, butter, lemons for 10 days; stamp at the bottom: Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt; st. bdb, dimensions approx. 68x135 mm.
Ordinances of the Bishop of the Diocese of Warsaw, Antoni Fijałkowski (1778-1861) [Warsaw, October 1, 1856] [bifolium]. Concerning: 1. searches by Tsarist police in monasteries; 2. firefighters in Łask and Tarnogród; 3. orders in USC files; 4. letters of Poles converted to Orthodoxy. Autograph of the famous Warsaw bishop A. Fijalkowski, known for his patriotism. From his solemn funeral in 1...
Diploma bent vertically and horizontally, a few other minor creases. Measures 30.5cm x 22.5cm.
[KOSSAK Juliusz]. Anonymous, double-sided manuscript from the period describing the funeral of J. Kossak; [...] This mourning, this heavy compulsion to part with a good man [...], with a lover of all that is beautiful, noble, worthy of our hearts, honor and devotion - was witnessed by the funeral crowds escorting the dear remains from the artist's mansion [...]; st. bdb., dimensions 212x293 mm...
VILNA. Citizenship certificate issued by the Citizenship Commission of the Vilnius Magistrate, 1927, confirming the Polish citizenship of Jadwiga Blasevich; stamp and stamp of the Vilnius Magistrate, signature of the deputy chairman of the Citizenship Commission; traces of folding, sheet yellowed in places, soiling, dimensions approx. 228x180 mm. Rare.
LODZ - ghetto - Judaica. Zaświadczenie wystawione dla Jakuba Łęczycki stating that he is employed as a terminator in Metall-Abteilung (metallurgical department) in the Lodz ghetto; at the bottom two stamps: 1) Der Oberburgermeister Gettovorwaltung..., 2) Metall-Abteilung...; st. db., size approx. 135x108 mm.
LODZ - ghetto - Judaica. Hospital treatment card dated 7.01.1941, print completed with handwritten annotations: Salomon Kahan zam. Gruzińska str. 42 treated in our hospital at Drewnowska Str. 75, from 1.1 to 7.1. He receives extra rations of lemons, sugar, eggs, butter, cottage cheese and white bread for 4 days; stamped at the bottom: Jüdisches Krankenhaus für Infektionskrankheiten Holzstra...
TORUŃ. Certificate of termination of work at the ammunition factory for Leszek Skonieczny, 19.12.1942; stamps: Heeres-Munitionsanstalt Thorn and Techn. Oberinspektor; one-sided printing, folding trace and minor edge tears, dimensions ca. 103x95 mm.
[MEHOFFER Józef], PIEKARSKA Felicja. Description of the circumstances of Joseph Mehoffer's death, set: 1) postcard dated July 8, 1946; F. Piekarska informs M. Iwański of Mehoffer's death; on July 5 the very ill artist was transferred from Zebrzydowice, where he had left to save his health, to a hospital in Wadowice, where he died on July 7; 2) photo from a newspaper with information about th...
LODZ - ghetto - Judaica. Hospital treatment card dated 20.04.1941, print completed with handwritten annotations: Pinkus Danziger zam. Młynarska str. 3 treated in our hospital at 75 Drewnowska street, from 13.4 to 20.4. Receives additional rations for 7 days in the form of: butter, milk, eggs, oatmeal, manna, cottage cheese; stamped at the bottom: Jüdisches Krankenhaus für Infektionskrankhei...
KRAKOW, BORDER. Travel document of POW Jan Kuczmierczyk returning to Cracow (valid until 9.02.1919); double-sided print issued by the Polish Command of the POW Station and the Command of the Station in Granica, institution stamp at the bottom; traces of folding, tears, stains, upper left corner torn off without damage to the text; dimensions approx. 170x205 mm.
GOWINO (Wejherowo district), Pelplin (Tczew district), Lubawa (Ilawa district). Obituary of Rev. Valentine Dabrowski (1847-1931), born in Gowino, attended seminary in Pelplin, catechist in Lubawa, pastor in Wejherowo, published as a 4-page print; portrait and biography, pictures of the Virgin Mary with child and Christ crucified, text of a prayer for the deceased; minor damage to edges, dimens...
BUCHENWALD, Weimar, Poznań. A card from Jozef Nowak, a prisoner of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, to Marta Nowak dated 28.06.1942; inspected by the camp censors, camp and postal stamps; folding mark, tears, minor damage to lower left corner, stains, dimensions approx. 148x105 mm.
GNIEZNO, Szczecin. Set of 4 memorabilia of Jan Stachowiak, serving in the 49th Infantry Regiment (German: 6. Pommersches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 49), which was stationed in Gniezno. The set includes: 1) handwritten letter in German. (Gniezno 4.03.1916) with stamp: Pommersche Infanterie Regiment Nr. 49 (it mentions Johann Stachowiak); traces of folding, bend in lower left corner, spots, d.d.; d...
GRALEWSKI Mateusz - Lviv. 1) Obituary of Mateusz Gralewski, exile to the Caucasus, ethnographer, publicist and participant in the 1863 uprising (member of the Executive Commission of the National Government) and cashier of the National Hospital in Lviv with information about the funeral in Lychakivsky Cemetery, 7.03.1892, rusty stains, document torn in half, stamp at bottom, dimension before t...
Dimensions: when unfolded 34 x 21 cm Condition as shown in the photos.
[MEHOFFER Joseph]. Postal remittance of 400 zloty from Iwański to Mehoffer; stamped July 12, 1944; condition bdb; dimensions 70x107 mm.
DROHOBYCZ, Boryslav - oil industry. Orders and delivery reverses from 1928-1933. 1-3) From the State Mineral Oil Factory "Polmin" in Drohobych to "Chemotechnika" Krakow from 26.03.1928, 7.04.1928 and 27.11.1928; 4) Standard-Nobel in Poland, Sp. Akc. Refinery in Libuszy to "Chemotechnika" Kraków dated 5.01.1929; 5) Hermann Brenner in Boryslaw - reverse of delivery dated 23.11.1933. Perforation...
KOŁO. Document issued by the occupying power confirming that Stanislaw Biskupski, as a chicken farmer, supplies eggs; p. 4, print and manuscript; spots and minor perforations, st. db., dimensions ca. 108x153 mm. Nachweiskarte über abgelieferte Eier 1942.
MEHOFFER Jadwiga. Postcard dated January 26, 1943 (date stamped January 31); Mehofferowa informs M. Iwański that he has finished Mr. Divine's professor [...] - it still has to dry for a few days then it can be taken away [...]; st. bdb. Jadwiga Mehofferowa née Radzim-Janakowska (1871-1956) - painter, collector, model. She came from a well-connected landowning family. Jadwiga's parents raised...
MEHOFFER Jadwiga; AROUND MEHOFFER'S BROTHERS. Set: 1) letter dated December 19, 1947, handwritten by Felicia Piekarska; [...] I am sending a package of Legion memorabilia and posthumous recollections about the Marshal. To this I enclose the late Mehoffer's 3 drawings of weapons. They are hidden among the newspapers; please search carefully [...]; to this an original envelope with a description...
MEHOFFER Jadwiga. Postcard to M. Iwanski, mailed February 29, 1944; Mehoffer confirms [...] visit on Friday evening - So goodbye; st. bdb.
MURNAU. Correspondence between Pawel Zaremba and his wife, Sophia Zarembina: 1) postal card dated 18 XI 1943, on the first page the sender's details are given, stamp: Oflag VII A 12 Geprüft, 2) post card dated December 3, 1943, on the first page are given the data of the sender, stamp: Oflag VII A 4 Geprüft. St. db., traces of folding, dimensions when unfolded: 148x340 mm. Pawel Zaremba (191...