NEW BOOK: UPPER SILESIA EMERGENCY MONEY

Wieslaw M. Pawlowski:

Pieniadz Zastepczy na Górnym Slasku
w Okresie Plebiscytu i III Powstania Slaskiego

280 pages, fully illustrated in color, format 172 mm x 240 mm, weight 850 g, cardboard cover (hardcover) with thread stitching, Lublin 2020, ISBN 978-83-945629-4-6,

Collecting paper money is very common in Poland. In the past few years, numerous well-edited books on paper money have been published in our neighboring country. Among them also catalogs that deal with the emergency money of the former German eastern territories.

Price around 40.00 euros.

Wieslaw M. Pawlowski now presents a catalog whose title translates as Replacement money in Upper Silesia during the time of the plebiscite and the third Silesian uprising and which should therefore also be of interest to many German collectors. Exactly one hundred years after the events in Upper Silesia, the author presents this catalog.

The emergency money issues of this era are not only listed, but almost completely illustrated in color, and there are also many notes on display that you would otherwise not see. In addition to the 50 Upper Silesian issuing offices, the author also deals with the donation receipts issued in the German Reich and the porcelain donation coins of the Provincial Committee of the Upper Silesian Province. The catalog concludes with notes from the Polish Plebiscite Committee in Bytom, the Central Plebiscite Committee in Warsaw and another issue from the Polish Plebiscite Committee for Upper Silesia.

Although the book was written in Polish, you do not need any knowledge of the Polish language or a dictionary to work with it. The issuers are arranged in alphabetical order and numbered according to the German place names. In addition, the current Polish place names are given. The issuer's individual stamps are then given a corresponding consecutive number. If known, details of the printer and the designing artist, format, watermark and variants are given. In 1922 and 1923, some of the emergency notes with the new value imprint were reissued in the then Polish part of Upper Silesia. In this case, the relevant basic license is given a note. The author has waived a valuation in zloty or euros, but rare notes are given the reference R - RRRR.

Reference information can be found for each voucher, e.g. B. on Ritter, Grabowski, Geiger, Tieste, to name only the most important. In contrast to the catalog by Rolf Ritter, "Notgeldscheine from the voting time 1920/22 in Upper Silesia", which was already before

40 years ago, Pawlowski was able to add a number of new issuers.

The good overall impression of the work is supported by the use of the high-quality paper and the excellent illustrations.

You can tell from the book that it was written with great attention to detail.

In the appendix, the German texts are translated into Polish and additional descriptions are made for the Polish users of the catalog. The catalog is recommended to every collector of Upper Silesian emergency money. With a print run of only 500 copies, the catalog is sure to be sold out quickly. It can be obtained directly from the author.

To read the complete article, see:
Katalog zum Ersatzgeld während der Volksabstimmung in Oberschlesien 1921 (https://www.geldscheine-online.com/post/katalog-zum-ersatzgeld-w%C3%A4hrend-der-volksabstimmung-in-oberschlesien-1921)

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