Post by ameis33 on Feb 26, 2023 21:12:17 GMT
The idea to open this topic is old, even if the chronic lack of time hasn't allowed me to do it before.
I open it now also as a welcome to our new friend :janekp
The Republic of Poland was born with the end of the People's Republic of Poland in 1990. The first years of the new Republic, however, were troubled with the need to reform the old organization of the State and to make a new stable government. And so, at the beginning, the old definitive stamps were still in use, with the introduction of some new issues to cover the pressure of the inflation.
In my opinion, the first significant issue of the new Republic is the "Signs of the Zodiac" issue of 1995. 12 stamps, one for each sign, widely used for long time. This issue differs from the previous ones in the graphic aspect, cheerful and colorful, definitely the opposite of the serious issues of the previous years. A very beautiful issue and also interesting for specialized collectors, with all the different types of paper on which it has been printed. The basic distinction is between fluorescent and non-fluorescent stamps, but in reality specialized cataloging goes much further.
The zodiak has just 12 different signs, and so when in 1997 there was the need of new figures, Poczta Polska could not extend the actual set and had to introduce a new definitive, The Polish Manor Houses.
In 2002 the return to a theme widely used in the past, the Polish Towns. Although all based on the same theme, this issue sees different graphic formats over the time.
In 2009 another beautiful issue, the Flowers.
And recently, instead of the face value, forever stamps, where a face value is not indicated, but the service covered. A for ordinary shipments and B for registered shipments, in various themes and colors based on the different weights of the letter.
All the stamps shown here are the result of several months of soaking/drying/etc and some of them i have already shown. The main source for these stamps was my wife's grandmother, who died at the age of 96 last year, but still clear-headed and present up to the end. During the war she was 17 years old and she lived in Ukraine (Chortkow), which was Poland at that time. Every time we met i remember that she would start telling me her life, what she had been through, her friends who had fought, those who were still alive and those who had died. One fine day someone showed up at their home in Chortkow saying they had to leave because that was no longer their home. And they moved first t Cracow, then to Warsaw. A long story...
I have not been able to put all complete series together, at least not yet. However i find them beautiful and i hope someone will join me collecting them...
I open it now also as a welcome to our new friend :janekp
The Republic of Poland was born with the end of the People's Republic of Poland in 1990. The first years of the new Republic, however, were troubled with the need to reform the old organization of the State and to make a new stable government. And so, at the beginning, the old definitive stamps were still in use, with the introduction of some new issues to cover the pressure of the inflation.
In my opinion, the first significant issue of the new Republic is the "Signs of the Zodiac" issue of 1995. 12 stamps, one for each sign, widely used for long time. This issue differs from the previous ones in the graphic aspect, cheerful and colorful, definitely the opposite of the serious issues of the previous years. A very beautiful issue and also interesting for specialized collectors, with all the different types of paper on which it has been printed. The basic distinction is between fluorescent and non-fluorescent stamps, but in reality specialized cataloging goes much further.
The zodiak has just 12 different signs, and so when in 1997 there was the need of new figures, Poczta Polska could not extend the actual set and had to introduce a new definitive, The Polish Manor Houses.
In 2002 the return to a theme widely used in the past, the Polish Towns. Although all based on the same theme, this issue sees different graphic formats over the time.
In 2009 another beautiful issue, the Flowers.
And recently, instead of the face value, forever stamps, where a face value is not indicated, but the service covered. A for ordinary shipments and B for registered shipments, in various themes and colors based on the different weights of the letter.
All the stamps shown here are the result of several months of soaking/drying/etc and some of them i have already shown. The main source for these stamps was my wife's grandmother, who died at the age of 96 last year, but still clear-headed and present up to the end. During the war she was 17 years old and she lived in Ukraine (Chortkow), which was Poland at that time. Every time we met i remember that she would start telling me her life, what she had been through, her friends who had fought, those who were still alive and those who had died. One fine day someone showed up at their home in Chortkow saying they had to leave because that was no longer their home. And they moved first t Cracow, then to Warsaw. A long story...
I have not been able to put all complete series together, at least not yet. However i find them beautiful and i hope someone will join me collecting them...
