Stamped Envelope
Object Details
- Description
- mint
- Stamped envelope with blue 7-kopek indicia. The design includes images of a plane, helicopter, boat, train and truck. The cachet commemorates B. O. Pilsudski (1866-1918).
- These commemorative stamped envelopes were issued by the Sakhalin Regional Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and were apparently created as an accompaniment to their exhibition on Pilsudski. The exhibition catalog was retained by the National Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Library.
- Bronislaw (Piotr?) Pilsudski was a Polish cultural anthropologist and linguist who is famous for his research on the Ainu ethnic group that inhabits the Sakhalin Island of Russia. He belonged to an undercover socialist group and was sentenced to 15 years hard labor on Sakhalin Island by tsarist Russian authorities. His younger brother, Jozef Pilsudski (1867-1935), was the equally famous Polish general and premier of Poland (1926-28; 1930).
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1991
- Object number
- 1992.2006.1
- Depicts
- Bronislaw Pilsudski, Polish, 1866 - 1918
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Dimensions
- 11.4 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- catalog number (Scott) Russia Scott unlisted?
- Record ID
- npm_1992.2006.1
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