Start of the sale:
Monday, 7 January 2013 at 10:56
Item n°200963265
Sale ends:
Sunday, 29 September 2024 at 19:06
THESE MINT NEVER HINGED COMPLETE SET OF 8 STAMPS WERE ISSUED ON 27 AUGUST 1970 AND DEPICT FAMOUS POLISH PEOPLE ON MINIATURES AND WILL MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
THE FAMOUS POLES DEPICTED ON THE STAMPS ARE:
7ZL: MICHAL OGINSKI (composer, diplomat and politician, Lithuanian Grand Treasurer and Russian senator).
5,50 ZL: SAMUEL LINDE (linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the Polish language. He was director of the Prussian-founded Warsaw Lyceum during its existence [1804–31], and an important figure of the Polish Enlightenment)
3,40 ZL: TADEUSZ KOSCIUSZKO (a Polish [sometimes described as Polish-Lithuanian] and American general. He is a national hero of Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and the United States. He led the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia as Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces).
2,50 ZL: MARIA WALEWSKA (Polish noblewoman and a mistress of Emperor Napoleon. In her later years she married count Philippe Antoine d´Ornano, an influential Napoleonic officer).
2 ZL: MARIA LESZCZYNSKA (queen consort of France. She was a daughter of King Stanislaw Leszczynski of Poland (later Duke of Lorraine) and Catherine Opalinska. She married King Louis XV of France and was the grandmother of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X. In France, she was referred to as Marie Leczinska. She was the longest serving Queen consort of France).
60GR: STEFAN BATORY (son of Stephen VIII Báthory and Catherine Telegdi, a member of the Somlyó branch of the noble Hungarian Báthory family, Prince of Transylvania [1571–1586] and King of Poland [(1576–1586]. Stephen Báthory is considered to be one of the most illustrious elected kings of Poland).
40GR: JAN MATEJKO (Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like Battle of Grunwald, paintings of numerous other battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish kings. He is counted among the most famous Polish painters).
20GR: ALEKSANDER ORLOWSKI (Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire).
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