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This site is dedicated to rare editions/pressing records of Western artists, edited in Poland. You can also find here records from former Czechoslovakia, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary and other countries, too. There are following categories:

  • postcards records
  • 7" singles
  • LP's

Any info on request : kruskal@interia.pl

There is an old version of the site here.

Search service for any kind records edited in Poland.
Polish music : contemporary classical music (Penderecki, Gorecki, Bacewicz), polish jazz, ethnic music, 60's polish beat, progressive rock, heavy metal, blues, reggae, punk, new wave, symphonic rock, etc.



This is very rare, hand made, edited on metal, not vinyl, Hungarian album of The Beatles. Edited in the middle of 60's. Only one copy with this hand made cover was made exclusively for afriend in Poland.

The rarest part of this collection are sound Postcard Records edited in Poland from early 60'. Postcard Records are different to FLEXI. Postcards Records edited in Poland weren't connected with papers or magazines. Postcards Records are not transparent with few excepts and usually are thick, not very thin like flexi. And there is a Picture on many Postcards Records. They are 7" size, in few cases smallest. Most are rectangle or square.

Most are playable on standard grammophone. Only some few old are with different speed. There were over 50 different editors in many cities and villages in Poland over 20 years. The biggest one was TONPRESS from Warsaw, in the beginnig called : Przedsiebiorstwo Wydawniczo-Poligraficzne "RUCH" ( shortcut : PWP "R"), later RSW, and Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza (KAW). All these are pre-Tonpress Postcard Record and have following information : catalogue number, year of printing, and quantity.

Second big editor is about ten years older and coming from Warsaw too. It's "Pracownia Pocztowek Dzwiekowych Z.Kwapinska" (PPD Z.Kwapinska). Sound Postcards edited by Tonpress have always PS, sometimes are in envelope,On the paper Postcard is the kind of plastic foil with sound recording. The most Postcards Records other editors are full from kind of plastic material but thick and usually not transparent, sometimes with PS or some drawings.

The rarest and most expensive are postcards from 60's. It's really hard to get them today.

All questions: kruskal@interia.pl - prices on request
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