postage stamps

Postage stamp sheet designed on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Copernicus’ birth
- Creator: Leon Kawecki
- Date: 1973
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamps
Postcard on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Copernicus’ death
- Date: 1943
- Description: Postcard issued by the General Gouvernement (Nazi occupation) authorities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Copernicus’ death
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Sample of postage stamp no 667 from the series „Nicolaus Copernicus – International Year of Copernicus”
- Creator: Bogusław Brandt
- Date: 1953
- Description: 20-grosz postage stamp printed on 22 May 1953 – sample
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Stamp block bl45 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski, engraved Barbara Kowalska
- Date: 28 September 1972
- Description: Stamp block bl45 with an illustration of the Ptolemean and Copernican systems taken from A Cellarius’s L’Harmonica Microcosmica from 1660 and the emblem of the World Philatelic Exhibition 'Poland 73'. Print run of 1,233,000
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
Stamp block bl46a from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski, engraved Edward Konecki
- Date: 19 August 1973
- Description: Stamp block showing a panoramic view of Poznań from 1740 after a drawing by Friedrich Bernhard Werner and an emblem of the World Philatelic Exhibition 'Poland 73'. Print run of 1,200,000 stamps
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
Stamp no 365 from the series „Views of Kraków”
- Creator: Józef Wilczyk
- Date: 1945
- Description: The stamp shows a partial view of the quadrangle of Collegium Maius in Kraków featuring a statue of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Stamps from the series „Copernicus and Konarski”
- Date: 1923
- Description: Jubilee stamps no 164 and no 166 with nominal values of 1000 and 5000 marks from the series 'Copernicus and Konarski' printed to commemorate Copernicus' 450th anniversary and the 150th anniversary the founding of the Commission of National Education
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń

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