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Historic buildings / sailboat

Fischer 205-215 | Michel 233-243 | Scott 227-237 | Year of issue 1925 | Pre-war Poland

205
Holy Gate Ostra Brama
in Wilno
206
Jan III Sobieski
monument in Lwów
207 I
Zygmunt column
in Warsaw

207 II
Zygmunt column
in Warsaw
208 I
Jan III Sobieski
monument in Lwów
208 II
Jan III Sobieski
monument in Lwów

209 I
Zygmunt column
in Warsaw
209 II
Zygmunt column
in Warsaw
210 I
Wawel Castle
in Kraków

210 II
Wawel Castle
in Kraków
211 I
Sailboat
"Dar Pomorza"
211 II
Sailboat
"Dar Pomorza"

212
Holy Gate Ostra Brama
in Wilno
213 I
Jan III Sobieski
monument in Lwów
213 II
Jan III Sobieski
monument in Lwów

214 I
Wawel Castle
in Kraków
214 II
Wawel Castle
in Kraków

215
Sailboat
"Dar Pomorza"

Glossary

Ostra Brama (meaning Pointed Gate, but generally called the Dawn Gate) is a town gate in Wilno. Wilno is now Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, but once part of Poland. Ostra Brama is known as a holy gate because it contains a shrine of the Holy Virgin.
Lwów was a Polish city until Word War I. The city was called Lemberg by the Germans. Today it is a Ukrainian city called Lviv.
Jan III Sobieski became king of Poland in the 17th century after his victory over the Turks in the liberation of Vienna.
The Zygmunt column is a statue of Zygmunt III Waza, king of Poland and Sweden, on the Royal Castle square in Warsaw.
The Royal Castle was the residence of the king in Warsaw. Warsaw is the capital of Poland.
A town hall is a government building that houses administrative offices of a town government.
Poznań is a city in west central Poland.
Wawel is the royal castle, home of three dynasties of Polish kings, in Kraków (Cracow).
Kraków is a city in south Poland.
The Dar Pomorza is a Polish sailing frigate. "Dar Pomorza" means "Gift of Pomerania" (Pomerania is a Polish county). In Poland, the Dar Pomorza was used as a training ship for the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia (near Gdańsk).

Relevant pages

Fischer 208-211 were used for Port Gdańsk overprints (Fischer 12-15)

Resources

Ostra Brama
Our Lady of Ostra Brama
Ostra Brama (thesilvericon.com)
Shrines of the Holy Virgin in Vilnius (www.geocities.com)
Wilno / Vilnius
Vilnius (vilnius.lt)
Jan III Sobieski
The monument for Jan III Sobieski in Lwów (www.autodidacts.evesham.net)
Lwów
Zygmunt column
Zygmunt III Waza
Warsaw
The town hall in Poznań (www.welcometo.poznan.pl)
Poznań
Poznań (www.cs.put.poznan.pl)
City hall / town hall
Wawel
Wawel (krakow-info.com)
Kraków
Kraków (krakow.pl)
Dar Pomorza

Type I or type II

207 I
the lines touch the 3
207 II
the lines do not touch the 3

208 I
the lines touch the 5
208 II
the lines do not touch the 5

209 I
the lines touch the 10
209 II
the lines do not touch the 10

210 I
the lines touch the 15
210 II
the lines do not touch the 15

211 I
two dots
211 II
no dots

213 I
the lines touch GR
213 II
the lines do not touch GR

214 I
spire without flag
214 II
spire with flag