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A set containing a badge of the Border Protection Corps with an ID card and a photograph of the awardee, Stefan Kielbasa, a soldier of the KOP Battalion "Hoszcza". The badge is in the form of an oval laurel wreath, with a border post in the center with the sun's rays in the background. The bottom of the badge is crowned with an eagle wz.27 in the crown below which is a sash with the inscriptio...
Polish Cross of Valor awarded for bravery on the battlefield. The award is in the shape of a cross, in the center a Polish eagle in a crown with outspread wings. On the shoulders the inscription "On the Field of Glory 1920". Original period ribbon. Dimensions 40 mm x 40 mm. Cross complete with a card issued by the 10th Horse Rifle Regiment on February 20, 1946 to Tadeusz Zlotorowicz. Attached ...
Passport issued to Tadeusz Zlotorowicz during his journey to the United Kingdom. The passport was issued by the Polish Embassy in Lisbon and has an Irish and British visa. Tadeusz Zlotrowicz was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned....
Certificate of graduation from the Prince Józef Poniatowski Central NCO School of the Border Protection Corps issued to Stefan Kiełbasa, soldier of the KOP "Hszcza" Battalion, issued on August 14, 1934. At the bottom of the diploma is a photograph of all the soldiers who took part in the course. Dimensions: 43,5cm x 32cm. General condition as in the photos.
A set of documents after Jadwiga Debowska (née Bojarczyk). She was born in 1908 in Vilna. The set includes, among others: -10 Photographs. -Tomas Zan Library admission card from 1930. -Legitimation of the Rev. Adam Jerzy Czartoryski State Gymnasium for the 1927/1928 school year. -Visit card -Membership certificate of the Academic Sports Association in Vilnius from 1937. -Shelley's Institute m...
Award of the double Army Medal given on April 3, 1947. Perfectly visible stamp of the 1st Armored Division. Tadeusz Zlotrowicz was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned. After making his way to France, he joined the 1st Grenadier Reg...
LOPP. Legitimation No. 1. for Aleksander Gieysztor. Issued by circle no. 101. Warsaw 1925 . Printed 2 p., filled in by hand.Aleksander Gieysztor (1916-1999) - medieval historian, professor at Warsaw University, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle.
List of the Westerplatte defense crew divided into individual outposts and their crews, including the further fate of the defenders. On the list one name is autographed by the Defender of Westerplatte - Bartoszak Franciszek Outpost Lazienki, later soldier of the Home Army, awarded the Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari. The list was published in Gdansk in 1974. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran...
ZBIERZCHOWSKI Henryk - Lviv - Fochowi. Manuscript of a poem in honor of Marshal Ferdinand Foch [Lviv, 1923 (?)]. Manuscript 2 p., measuring 20.2 x 13 cm. Folds of paper. On the reverse further notes and reflections of the author. Manuscript of a poem by the famous Lviv poet Henryk Zbierzchowski (1881-1942), written in honor of Ferdinand Foch, probably on the occasion of the military being hono...
[ZŁOTOROWICZ] PSZnZ Driving License Tadeusz Zlotorowicz 1943 - Knight of the Virtuti Militari
12 EUR
Driver's license allowing the driving of motor vehicles from 1943 issued by the 1st Rifle Brigade to Tadeusz Zlotorowicz. Tadeusz Zlotrovich was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned. After making his way to France, he joined the 1st...
Legitimation of the 1st Armored Division circle association issued to Tadeusz Zlotorowicz of the 10th Horse Rifle Regiment. On the card one can see the signature of General Stanislaw Maczek, commander of the 1st Armored Division. Tadeusz Zlotrowicz was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River....
Legitimation for the commemorative badge of the 1st Grenadier Division issued on June 21, 1970 in Warsaw. Tadeusz Zlotrowicz was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned. After making his way to France, he joined the 1st Grenadier Regim...
[Polish Legions] LEGION OF POLAND Military card, no. 20967 for Antoni Kudziela, soldier of IV Komp. III Baon of the 1st P. L. P. Stamp on cover: 1st Polish Legion with Eagle. S. 21, loose pages, some pages filled in by hand, with autographs. Traces of folds and paper breaks (most pages). Stains and soiling. Height 15.7 cm. Antoni Kudziela (born 1897) - soldier of the IV Komp. of the 3rd Battal...
[World War I] Patience game for soldiers in shooting trenches 1914/15. manufacturer F. Ad. Richter & Cie., Wien XIII/1 Cardboard box measuring 8x8 cm, on the face a title in German, Hungarian, Czech and Polish, on the back in the same languages an advertisement for other toys of this type for soldiers, inside 15 stone elements for arranging geometrical figures. Cover with torn sides and sm...
A set of documents left behind by Warsaw Uprising participant Helena Jeżewska. The set includes: -School identification card of the Helena Rzeszowska Private Female Humanist Gymnasium in Warsaw for the school year 1933/1934. -School identification card of the Helena Rzeszowska Private Female Gymnasium for the Humanities in Warsaw for the school year 1936. -Certificate of the Polish YMCA on co...
Journal of Motorcycle Sports Trips by a member of the Sosnovice Cyclists' Society, 1924-1937.
59 EUR
Dimensions: 104 x 160 mm, pp. nlb. 134, all inscribed, over 300 stamps. Good condition.
Legitimation of the Polish Ski Association issued to Wladyslawa Krzewska on November 1, 1935 by the Lviv ski section of the Polish Tatra Society. Lviv 1935 Legitimation form. 11x7 cm. S. [12]. Original cloth binding with inscription on front. Stamps of the Lviv Branch of PTT, PZN and signatures. Photo of the owner inside Validity of the document extended to 31 X 1936.Attached is an invitation ...
State Sports Badge Third Class, bronze. Awarded for positive results of a physical fitness test. The badge depicts a stylized eagle made of white enamel, with outstretched wings upward, sitting on a wreath. Between the wreath and the eagle's talons are visible red enamel letters ( POS ) abbreviating the State Sports Badge. Attached to the badge is an ID card issued to st. gunner Stefan Kiełba...
Act of November 5, 1916] Gazeta Polska. Political and social daily of November 6, 1916. Dąbrowa Górnicza. No. 307, Year II. "To the inhabitants of the Lublin governorate!". S. 4, (1). H. 48 cm. Tight margins, fold marks, minor tears. Enclosed printed proclamation of the Civic Committee of the city of Dabrowa, speaking of the fulfillment of the nation's dreams - the proclamation of Poland as ...
Legitimation of the Cross of Armed Deeds of the Polish Armed Forces in the West issued on September 20, 1990 to Tadeusz Zlotorowicz. Tadeusz Zlotrowicz was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned. After making his way to France, he joi...
Preserved envelope, 8 (21 cm), p. 4. Very good/good condition. The first mass transport to Auschwitz - a transport of prisoners from the Tarnów penitentiary, which was sent by the German occupiers to the newly opened Auschwitz concentration camp on June 14, 1940. 728 prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from the Tarnów prison. Number 31 (the first 30 numbers were given to German criminals from Sac...
8 (21 cm), pp. 4, inscribed 2. Folding trace of a crease near the edge in the center, otherwise good condition. The first mass transport to Auschwitz - a transport of prisoners from the Tarnów penitentiary, which was sent by the German occupiers to the newly opened Auschwitz concentration camp on June 14, 1940. 728 prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from the Tarnów prison. Number 31 (the first 3...
BORDER PROTECTION CORPS] Name-day tableau for the commander of KOP Gen. Jan Kazimierz Kruszewski. Ludwipol, June 24, 1933. Tempera, gouache, watercolor on paper. At the bottom a fragment with signatures of officers, non-commissioned officers and riflemen of the Border Protection Corps. Dimensions 54 x 49 cm in light passe-partout, in frame 75 x 68 cm. Address framed in an elegant gilded frame ...
[District Corps No. V. Artillery, Cracow] Invitation to the ball of the District Corps No. V. Artillery in the Salons of the Garrison Officers' Casino in Cracow, 2 II 1929. Invitation 4 p., in brochure cover, folded. 12.5 cm high. Front cover tear. In the Organizing Committee, among others: colonel Jan Maciej Bold, chief of Art. and Arm. O. K. V., Col. Gotfryd Kellner, Dca of the 6th p.a.p.
[National Defense Fund] Invitation to the New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1937. Issued by the Cultural and Educational Circle of the Municipal Fire Brigade in Cracow. Clean proceeds designated for FON. Print, dimensions when unfolded 10.5x31.5 cm, pencil annotations on the last page.The National Defense Fund (FON) - a fund created by Presidential Decree of April 9, 1936 to raise additiona...
Corps District Command No. V, swimming certificate. 1935 r. Issued in the name of Roman Grubenthal, who completed the water rescue course with a very good result. Stamps of DOK Nr V and the Cracow District Department of the Polish Swimming Association, signatures. Printed 2 p., partially filled in by hand. Measures 28.5x22 cm, traces of folding, file holes in margin, creases. Roman Grubenthal ...
Dimensions: 155 x 106 mm. Slight edge damage, otherwise good condition. The first mass transport to Auschwitz - a transport of prisoners from the Tarnów penitentiary, which was sent by the German occupiers to the newly opened Auschwitz concentration camp on June 14, 1940. 728 prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from the Tarnów prison. Number 31 (the first 30 numbers were given to German criminals...
Collection of notarial documents and other correspondence relating to the succession of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz. Dated. Paris [Paris] 2, 12 July and 7 August 1841. S. (12) in various formats, loose-leaf, in French. Stamped paper, dry-stamped backgrounds, autographs. Traces of folding, yellowing of paper. Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758-1841), outstanding Polish playwright and poet, historian, di...
Legitimation of the Commemorative Medal of the 30th anniversary of the battles of the 1st Grenadier Division in Lorraine awarded to Tadeusz Zlotrovich. Tadeusz Zlotrovich was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned. After making his wa...
[Polish Western Legion] Military card of the Polish Western Legion for Tadeusz Terlecki, Battalion Commander, 3rd Regiment. Document 2 pp. 15.7 x 10 cm (folded). S. Stamp: 1st Polish Legion in Cracow. Part of the pages missing.The Western Legion - a military formation formed in Krakow on August 27, 1914 from the Riflemen's Union, the Polish Riflemen's Teams of the Krakow district and the Union...
[7th Wkp. Horse Rifle Regiment] Invitation to the Horse Competition named after the 7th Wkp. Horse Rifle Regiment for May 14, 1927 in Kobylepol. Printed 1 p., signed in print: "Zofja and Stanislaw Mycielski". Height 11.5 cm. Card break in the middle. Invitation issued for Major Adam Zygmunt Prylinski (1881-1939) with his family.
Leather "horseshoe" wallet with an image of Marshal Pilsudski [not before V 1935]. Made in the 1930s, leather coin wallet, measures 8x8.5 cm, 16x.8.5 cm when unfolded. On the face embossed Marshal Pilsudski's head in a maciejówka, under the image a floral element and a sash with the inscription Marshal of Poland, at the bottom in a semicircle an inscription: Jozef Pilsudski. Next to the compo...
Zaświadczenie z Komisji Poborowej wystawione w Wierzbniku w 1933 roku określające zdolności do pełnienia służby wojskowe wystawiony na Stefana Kiełbasa, żołnierzu Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza Batalion "Hoszcza". Dimensions:8cm x 12cm. General condition as shown in photos.
[POGRANITIVE PROTECTION CORPUS] Decorative workmanship of KOP badge in wood, originating from Officer's Casino or Watchtower (?). Poland, 1930s. Wood, painting, gluing. Dimensions 44.5 x 29 cm. Wood distortion, traces of woodworms, especially on the reverse. Chips of paint. Loss of the eagle's right leg.Border Protection Corps (KOP) - Polish military formation created in 1924 to protect the ea...
A letter sent on October 4, 1942 by Michał Ryziński, born March 10, 1897, a prisoner of the German Auschwitz Concentration Camp addressed to Stanisława Ryzińska, who lived in Cracow on Kielecka Street. The following correspondence rules were placed in German on each letter sent to families: Each prisoner had the right to receive and send two letters or two postcards to his family once a mo...
Thanksgiving address to Ordynat Maurycy Count Zamoyski, founder of the Ordinance Clerks' Prudence Fund. 1905 r. Made at the Photochemigraphic Works of B. Wierzbicki and Sp. in Warsaw. Light print (phototype), cardboard, 32x42 cm in size, no. dampstains, minor creases, glued at the edges with fragments of old paper and tissue paper. Print was designed by Konstanty Kietlicz-Rayski (1866-1924), p...
A set of two certificates of completion of trade courses for soldiers of the 1st Armored Division, together with a copy confirming completion of the course. Tadeusz Zlotrowicz born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned. After making his w...
[SŁAWEK Walery] Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Col. Walery Sławek 1937. Letter on official paper of the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland dated. Warsaw 8 VI 1937, addressed to Kazimierz Duch MP. The addressee of the letter is Kazimierz Duch MP, chairman of the Sejm's Committee on Local Government Administration. In the contents refusal to accept resignation from th...
To the voters of the City of Lviv! Agitational election leaflet of the PPS Central Election Committee in Lviv issued in connection with the March 1928 elections to the Polish Sejm. Printed by Piotr Laszkiewicz, LSTW printing house in Lviv Printed 1 p. Measures 41x26 cm, trace of folding in half, non-creases, small tears at edges glued with tissue paper on back. Folds p. g. corner. In the conte...
A set of documents related to the anniversaries of the battles of the 1st Grenadier Division and Tadeusz Zlotrowicz's trips to France. Tadeusz Zlotrovich was born on August 3, 1918 near Lviv. He took part in the September Campaign in the National Defense Battalion "TURKA" in Turka on the Stryj River. He got across the Hungarian border and then was interned. After making his way to France, he j...
[KRASZEWSKI Jozef Ignacy] ESTREICHER Karol - Fifty years of J. I. Kraszewski's work (1830-1879) : an abecadal and chronological account of the jubilarian's fifty years of scientific and literary activity, listing all editions of his works and translations into foreign languages. [Prepared by Karol Estreicher]. Cracow 1879. outlay and work of the Board of Printers and typesetters of "Czas".Publ...
[GROMNICKI Feliks of Prawdzic Coat of Arms] Address of the XL General Meeting of the People's School Society in Lviv informing about the offering of a memorial ring to Feliks Gromnicki in recognition of his merits. Lviv 13 XI 1937. Diploma in the form of a fold-out 2 p. address, 31.4 x 24.5 cm (each page). Ornamental floral borders printed in lithography, while the whole diploma handwritten in...
Advertising envelope of Daimon company producing flashlights and batteries for flashlights, the envelope signed by a soldier of the Border Protection Corps Battalion "Hoszcza" Stefan Kielbasa. Dimensions: General condition as in the photos.
Personal ID card of Second Lieutenant Waclaw Miałkowski, born December 4, 1905 in Warsaw. He served in the 8th Light Artillery Regiment in the PSZ in the USSR. The pass was issued on January 15, 1942 with the signature of General Wladyslaw Anders inside. Measures 17.2cm x 6.6cm. General condition can be seen in the photos.
Dimensions: 97 x 155 mm, k. inscribed 38, over 230 stamps. Good condition.
[Constitution of the 3rd of May] Program for the celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the eternal Constitution in Cracow. Cracow, 29 April 1891. S. (4). H. 23.5 cm. unframed. Damage to page edges, tears. Program of the two-day celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 3rd of May Constitution in Cracow. The program includes a solemn service at Wawel Cathedral presided over by Cardinal B...
1831 Josef Dwernicki (17979-1857) lengyel lovas tábornok kétsoros saját kézzel írt és aláírt köszönete a szerencsésen eltöltött órák emlékére
[Polish State Railways, PKP] A set of designs for the building of the Main Board of the Polish State Railways in Warsaw, by Lviv architect, Witold Minkiewicz. [Warsaw, after 1927] The designs are from the archives of Witold Minkiewicz (1880-1961), Lviv architect, rector of Lviv University, husband of painter Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa. As is well known, the competition for the design of th...
30.5 cm, pp. 87, [1], 289 illustrations, p. f. oryg. Back of binding with rust spots otherwise good condition. Wrappers and graphic design by Zbigniew Rychlicki. The work contains short biographies with images of the graphic artists and examples of their works.
Folded card issued to Polish Army Captain Stanislaw Rachfata born March 31, 1887 containing basic data about the owner issued by the Drohobych Starosty, Lviv Province. Stanislaw Rachfata - Biography: "Stanislaw Rachfata (1887-1971), belonged to the technical intelligentsia in charge of Boryslav's oil industry. He was a graduate of the chemistry department of the Lviv Polytechnic, and from 1921...
[BANDURSKI Wladyslaw] Hourglass Rev. Dr. Wladyslaw Bandurski titular bishop of Cydon, born in Sokal dn 25. V. 1863, died in Vilna dn March 6, 1932. Printing house of Jozef Zawadzki in Vilna. Print 1 p. Dimensions 31.5 x 40.5 cm. Paper tears. Wladyslaw Bandurski (1863-1932) - Polish Roman Catholic clergyman, doctor, auxiliary bishop of the Lviv and Vilna archdioceses, honorary chaplain of the P...
Half card for the Commemorative Badge of the Greater Poland Army. Dimensions: 11cm x 8cm Condition as shown in photos.
1853 Ausschl. Pr. Kaiser-Ferdinands-Nordbahn vasúti fuvarlevél
Certificate of the State Sports Badge of 1934, issued to Wladyslaw Kozlowski. The document confirms the acquisition of the right to wear the POS, based on the decision of the Provincial Committee for Physical Education and Military Training in Warsaw, dated March 15, 1934. Bearing the official seal with the crowned eagle and the signature of the district governor. Valid until the end of 1935. ...
1853 Wien, Ausschl. Pr. Kaiser-Ferdinands-Nordbahn vasúti fuvarlevél
Collection of materials, it includes notebooks, letters, newspaper clippings with obituaries.(a) loosely insertedDiaries from 16-18 July [1920 - no date, 17.08 was marked as Tuesday, and this date was Tuesday in 1920]. - notes addressed to Stach (the author's beloved) - mentions escape from Kutno from the Bolsheviks (Wloclawek occupied); August 17 stay in the village of Chodeczek, they saw a g...
[KOSTEK-BIERNACKI Waclaw] Free ride ticket of the Polish State Railways for the governor of Polesie, Waclaw Kostek-Biernacki. 1939 r. [PKP] Polish State Railways. 1939. free ride ticket (no. 11). Within all directorates of the P. K. P. For: Waclaw Bernacki, Voivode of Polesie. Valid until December 31, 1939. Printed 2 pp. Dimensions 7.5 x 10 cm. On the reverse the signature of the ticket holder...
Coat of arms of the city of Lviv in Austrian approval. Lithograph from the k. XIX century. Lithograph reflected in brown, sheet dimensions: 34 x 25.3 cm. Minor stains and folds of margins. The image of Lviv's coat of arms as approved by the Austrian invader Emperor Joseph II on November 6, 1789. This is how K. Sochaniewicz describes the history of this variant of the coat of arms in his work "...
12th Borderland Field Artillery Regiment] Invitation to the traditional St. Hubert's Hunting Run to be held on November 4, 1930. Printed 4 p., folded. Also included inside is an invitation to a dance party on the same day. Height 10.5 cm. Minor soiling, notations on the reverse. The 12th Borderland Light Artillery Regiment (12 pal) - a light artillery unit of the Polish Army in France and the ...
[November Uprising] Squadron of the Tsar's Guard. Certificate of purchase of hay issued on September 5, 1831 by the command of a squadron of the Tsar's Guard regiment in the Zameczek estate, belonging to Ignacy Drużbacki. Certificate of purchase of hay issued on September 5, 1831 by the command of a squadron of the Tsar's Guard regiment in the estate belonging to Ignacy Druzhbacki. Manuscript...
[November Uprising] Head of the Municipal Guard Branch of the Free City of Cracow. Clean form of certificate of qualification for security service [after XII 1830]. Issued by the head of the Municipal Guard Branch of the Free City of Cracow. Period of the November Uprising and the war with Russia 1830-31. Printed 1 p. on handmade paper with "Janowitz" watermark. Dimensions 33x20 cm. Folding ma...
NATIONAL DEFENSE FUND, MINISTRY OF MILITARY AFFAIRS] Diploma confirming donation to the National Defense Fund, dated 17 June 1936, for Mr. Jan Oltusz-Pomorzanski. Printed 1 p. Dimension 32.4 x 22.5 cm. Signed by Colonel Grosska. Decorative dry embossing of the Ministry with an image of the White Eagle. Traces of folding, soiling.Uncirculated. National Defense Fund (FON) - a fund created by Pre...
[32nd Infantry Regiment, Col. Zygmunt Polak] Invitation to the Celebration of the Regimental Day of the 32nd Infantry Regiment, to be held in Modlin, d. November 11, 1931. Printed 4 p., folded. Height 11.7 cm. On the invitation the signature of the regimental commander, Colonel graduated Zygmunt Polak. Invitation inscribed to Lt. Col. Marian Raczynski of the 12th Infantry Regiment.Zygmunt Fran...
[Lviv Bartosz Squads] 63 Order of the Supreme Council of the Bartosz Squads to Commissioners and Shop Stewards. Strictly secret [Lviv? 1914]. Typescript duplicate. 1 s. Oval stamp of the Supreme Council of the Bartoszn Druzhynki in Lviv. Signature of Stanislav Bac, the second chief executive (in 1913-1914). Height 33.8 cm. Traces of folding, minor paper loss. Letter of the main chief of the Ba...