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Bidboard # 1878
Lot # 170
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $200.00
Price Realized: $32
Poland

Polish Legion Charity Labels. Complete perforated and imperforated sets of four in blocks of four of the post WWI Polish Legion charity label issues. Future Chief of State Jozef Pilsudski raised the Polish Legion to fight against Russia in the hope of eventually regaining Poland's independence. These stamps inscribed "LEGIONISTOM POLSKIM" had no postal validity and were intended to promote enlistment in the Polish Legion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Galacia. Estimate