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You can find images and descriptions of all Polish postage stamps
issued between 1860 and the current issues from 2008. Stamps of
all Poland-related stamp collecting areas (e.g. local issues) are
also presented here.
There are several ways to have a look at all these stamps. Take a
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For a table of contents of all Polish postage stamps, choose "Postage stamps of Poland". This long menu is based on the Polish Fischer stamp catalogue Part I. It contains all stamp issues from the partition period to the most recent issue.
This will take you directly to the most recent stamp issue.
A list of planned stamp issues for the coming period can be found here.
You can narrow down your search for stamps released in a particular year.
Displays a menu that contains sheet issues of Polish postage stamps. A sheet is one full impression of stamps taken from a printing plate.
Both Sheets and Sheetlets menus have links to each other and links to Blackprinted and Reprinted sheets.
Displays a menu that contains sheetlet issues of Polish postage stamps. A sheetlet (or minisheet) is a small pane of stamps (less than what is normally considered by normal standards as a usual pane).
Both Sheets and Sheetlets menus have links to each other and links to Blackprinted and Reprinted sheets.
Use this menu if you immediately want to see for example the pre-war issues or the People's Republic issues without having to scoll down in a long menu.
All Polish postage stamps with overprints are listed here. The Groszy overprints from 1950 are not included here. They can be found in a separate section. See Groszy overprints below.
This shows a menu that can help you find stamps within a particular subject.
Displays a menu with all Polish joint issues. Joint issues are similar stamps released by two or more countries on the same day or within a few days of each other.
A menu with all official and provisional local Groszy overprints of 1950-1951.
Official stamps (also known as service stamps) are valid only on official mail of a government agency or their agents.
Postage due stamps are used to collect fees in letters that have been underpaid due to destination, weight, service, etc.
Local "Porto" overprints issued between the years 1919-1926.
The following menus for Poland-related stamp collecting areas follow the contents of Part II of the Polish Fischer stamp catalogue:
Stamps from Austria-Hungary, Bosnia Hercegovina, Austria, Russisch Polen, Generalgouvernement Warschau, Ober Ost, Białystok and the Tenth Army issued in occupied Poland during World War I.
Local Polish stamps with a unique distinctive character for town mail issued during World War I, printed by postal authorities in Chęciny, Luboml, Otwock, Przedbórz, Sosnowiec, Warsaw, Zawiercie and Żarki. Other postmasters used handstamps to cancel existing stamps. They were used in Aleksandrów, Będzin, Czeladź, Częstochowa, Koło, Łódź, Mława, Otwock, Pabianice, Pruszków, Siedlce, Sosnowiec, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Warsaw, Wilno, Włocławek and Żyrardów.
Stamps issued during Polish military operations: Suppreme National Committee, Samaritanian legion, Polish legion, Polish Korps, Puck, Upper Silesian insurgents, Zaolzie, Polish army in the Soviet Union, Pinczowski Home Army, Warsaw Uprising and the Second Polish Korps in Italy.
Stamps issued in the eastern part of the Polish Małopolska area in 1918-1920 for Ukraine, Western Ukraine and Romanian Pokuttya.
Local stamps issued on former Austrian, German and Russian occupied Poland at the end of World War I.
Stamps issued for Central Lithuania and Samorząd Warwiszki.
Stamps issued by Polish postmasters from the harbour of Gdańsk. Stamps for the Free City of Danzig can be found in a separate section. See Danzig below.
Odessa and the Levant stamps, issued from Polish post offices in Turkey. Mail was accepted at the Polish consulate in Constantinople, 1919-1923.
Stamps issued for the plebiscite areas of Upper Silesia, Marienwerder, Allenstein and Silesian Cieszyń (SO 1920).
Stamps issued on territories formerly occupied by Poland: Lithuania, Slovakia, Russia, Germany, Łódź ghetto and German fieldpost for submarines near the Hel peninsula.
German occupied Poland in World War II.
This section shows the Ostland, Vilnius and Ukraine overprinted stamps, issued after the German occupation of Polish territory annexed by the Soviet Union.
Polish prisoner of war camps: Woldenberg, Gross-Born, Neubrandenburg, Murnau, Block D, Swiss inmates and inter-camp post.
Local stamps from Brwinów, Bystrzyca Kłodzka, Końskie, Legnica, Leżajsk, Łęki Szlacheckie, Milanówek, Niezabitów, Rudnik nad Sanem, Siedlce, Wąwolnica, Węgrów, Zamość, issued at the end of World War II.
German stamps from the Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig).
Miscellaneous stamps: PCCP, Słuck, Poczta Zielona, Russia, Tajna poczta podziemna, Chodel, Falenica, Grabów, Gostyń Wielkopolski, Kielce, Kołobrzeg, Rabka, Sosnowiec, JWSW and several fantasy issues.
This area covers Polish tax or government fee stamps, also known as fiscals. The menu and the contents are based on Barefoot's Poland Revenue catalogue.
Polish stamp-like labels without postal validity: fundraising labels, charity labels, cinderellas, etc.
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Recommended links to other sites related to the philately and the history of Poland.
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