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Poland, the Postal Issues During and After the Great War 1942-1983 Index 117 Larking: "Poland, the Postal Issues During and After the Great War" . li, ph, r, *81-86, *88-100 Larking and Adamson: "The Municipal Stamps of Przedborz" . ph, r *12 Laszkiewicz: "The Educational Commission Semi-Portals: " . ph *(56) Laszkiewicz: "The Current Airmails of Poland" .. (56) Laszkiewicz: "The Current Officials of Poland" . (56) Laszkiewicz: "Eagle Issue of September 13,1944" . 58 Laszkiewicz: "January 22,1945 Issue" . ph *60 Laszkiewicz: "Poland's 8th General Exhibition 'The 20th Ann. of the PPR” . 222 Laszkiewicz: "Polonica" . 335 Lesh: Belorussian-Polish Relations 1918 -1923" . ph, ref 353 Lindenbaum: "The Lodz Stamp and Its Designer " . .. ph, r, t 212 Lipinski: "Battle of Monte Cassino 25th Anniversary" . 270 Lipinski: "On the 190th Anniversary of the Death of the Polish American Hero Casimir Pulaski . ref 273 Lipinski: "Poznan in Philately" . 278 Lipinski: "Stanislaw Moniuszko . ph 302 Lipinski: "Polska 73: Poland's Greatest Stamp Exhibition" . ph 316 Lipinski: "Poles and Hungarians - United in the Struggle for Freedom" . 350 Lipinski: "Czeslaw Slania, Foremost Stamp Engraver . .ph 354 Lipinski: "Poland's Polonica Club Honors Polonus . ph 355 Lipinski: "Intern. Camps for Pol. Soldiers in Hungary During W.W.II" . .li, ph, ref 358 Lipinski: "Polish Folklore on Postage Stamps" . li, m, ph *361-363 Lipinski: "Polonus Loses Myron Steczynski . li, ph 361 Lipinski: "Our Numismatic Friends" . .. 362 Lipinski: "Chester Schafer Honorary Polonus Member" . ph 363 Lipinski: "Post Offices in Poland, Maine" . m, ref 367 Lipinski: "In Memoriam - Chester Makowski . .ph 370 Lubinski: "Polish Prisoners of War Stamps" . ph, r 351, 353 Lukas: "History of the 'Lithuania' Philatelic Society" . 74 Machowski: "The 'P.K.L' Issue" . ph, ref, r 161 Martin: "Brother Albert (Adam Chmielowski)" . ph, r, t 66 Maslowski and Broar: "Austrian Machines Used on Polish Perfs" . ph, ref *313-317 Maxa: "Pilsudski and Moscicki 1928-1937 Poland's First Engraved Stamps " . 1i, ph, ref *303-309, *312 Mazepa: "Rare Polish Stampless Covers Sold" . 326 Mazepa: "My Favorite Cover" . ph 345 Mazepa: "Proof of the Second Provisional Issue Postal Stationery for the City of Warsaw" . ph, ref 363 Mazepa: "Capex 78 International Philatelic Exhibition" . 365 Mazepa: "International Participation at Polpex 79" . 369 Mazepa: "The Ukrainian Shahy Issue with Polish Eagle Overprints" . ph, ref 378 Mazepa: "A Postmark of the Russian Post in Tarnopol, 1809 - 1815". ph, ref 379 Mazepa: "Collecting Poland Today" . 382 Mazepa: "The Use of Directional Labels on Polish Flown Covers -1926" . ph *387 Mazepa: "First Polish Balloon Post - The II Wankowicz Race of 1926" . ph, ref 389 Mazepa: "A Major New Variety: 1978 Jankowski Space Stamp . ph 390 Mazepa: "Grodno Dispatch Postmark on a Railroad Advertising Cover" . ph 392 Mazepa: "The 1925 Warsaw L.O.P.P. Issue Without Value" . ph 394 118 Polonus Bulletin Mazepa: "The Polish Navy in World War II and its Postal Markings" . ph, ref 395 Mazepa: "Dr. Stanley Kronenberg Speaks at Polonus' . ph 395 Mazepa: "The Polish Merchant Navy in World War 11 . ph, ref 396 Mazepa: "Warsaw City Post Issue of 1860" . ph *399 Mazepa and Poddubiuk: "A Brody Transit Mark of 1803" . ph 393 Mazewski: Polpex 73 Speech . 310 Mazewski: Polpex 76 Speech .. ph 343 McAlister: "Frederic Chopin" . ph, r 204 Michaud: "The Decree on Martial Law Censorship" . 399 Michaud: "Martial Law Censorship: An Update" . ph, ref 401 Mickey: "Organizing the Polish Postal Service, 1918 - 1919" . t 383 Mickey: "Allied Occupation Troops in German-Polish Plebiscite Areas" . ref, r 397 Mikstein: "The First Issue of Stamps for Greater Poland" . li, ref, t *37 Mikstein: "First Issue of the Reborn Poland" . .. t 39 Mikstein: "Krakow Overprints of January, 1945 That did not come in(to) Circulation" . li, t 53 Mikstein: "Local Stamps of Rudnik, on the San" . li, ph, t *54 Mikstein: 'Postage Stamps and Their Classification in Polish Philately". t, *75-76 Mikstein: "Lublin Issue 1918 - 1919" . r, t, 102 Mikstein: "The Block of Six of the Polish-Russian Stamp of 1860" . ph, r, t, 110 Mikstein: "Warsaw Uprising Issue of the Mokotow District" . ph, r, t 116 Mikucki: "Polish Underground Stamps" . r 49 Mikucki: "The Ten Liberated Cities of Poland" . r *55 Mikucki: "The Story of the Polonus Society" . ph 167 Mikucki: "The Revenue Stamps of Poland" . ph, r *180 Mikucki: "Polonus Publishes Bulletin Number 400" . 400 Mikulski: "Forgery of the Blue Imperforate Miniature Sheet" . r 144 Mikulski: "From Hereto There" . 254 Miodus: "A Timely Suggestion" . 238 Mioduszewski: "Nicholas Copernicus" . ph 10 Morczyng: "A Disquisition from 1906 on Poland Number 1" . r, t, 182 Mueller: "Poland Number 1 Variety" . r 70 Mulford: "Arthur Szyk - Stamp Designer" .. r 95 Needham: "Casimir Pulaski, A Mason" . r 155 Negus: "Detecting Forgeries of a Polish Airmail" . r 182 Negus: "Polish Naval Postal Services in Great Britian, 1939 - 1945" . ref, r 203 Negus: "Cumulative Index to Bull. of the Polonus Phil. Soc. (1-200)" . 213-214 Negus: "A Polish Set that did not Please Everybody" . ph, r 276 Nicholas: "Are Reds Financing Spies Through Fake Stamp Sales?" . ph, r 113 Niebrzydowski: "Father Bojnowski, Champion of the Polish Cause" . ph, ref 341 Niebrzydowski: "Agnieszka W isla - An Exemplary Pole" . 354 Norton: "Warwiszki" . .. r *74 Norton: "Napoleon's Army Spent Two Weeks in Wilno" . r 257 Noske: "The 'Postal Region Ob.Ost"'. ph, r, t *74-75 Nowak: "Nazi Concentration Camp Stamp Recalls Tradition of Madonna of Czestochowa " . ph, r 137 Nowak: "New Discovery in Stamp Honoring U.S. Constitution" . ph 138 Nowak: "Poles are not Praying to the Right St. Hedwig" . ph, r 142 Nowak: "Transition in Postal History" . r 147 Nowak: "Poland's Unfinished Bugle Call" . ph, r 148 Nowak: "Polish Madonna on the Sobieski Stamp" . r 159 Nowak: "Philatelic Document of Poland's Religious Zeal" . ..
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