In the collection of the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, there are 43 Roman coins and 1 Byzantine, which were purchased in 1972 from the former collection of the famous numismatist, Fr. Edmund Majkowski (1892-1951). The article presents this collection along with considerations on how it was formed before it came to the museum.
The subject of this article is terracottas depicting boats, whose original designs could have been utilized for navigation on the Nile. Like other terracotta artefacts they are prone to various interpretations, including religious, cultic, symbolic, and even more prosaic interpretations. The primary hypothesis presented in this text suggests that their symbolic significance is associated with the household cult of individuals particularly connected with navigating the waters of the Nile.
The article was created as part of research on wartime losses of the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz. It describes the history of the African collection belonging to the Historical Society of the Noteć Oblast, which from 1923 belonged to the City Museum. In 1944, the collection, along with other collections of the Museum, was taken to Dębowo for protection. According to people involved in the return of the objects to Bydgoszcz, the manor house was burned down and the exhibits hidden there were destroyed. The collection was considered a wartime loss. However, it turned out that this was false information, and the collection was transferred in 1950 to the Folk Cultures Museum in Warsaw. The text analyzes documents describing the history of the collection, compares preserved inventories and lists, and attempts to trace the post-war fate of the collection.
The article deals with finds of Greek, Celtic, Roman and early medieval coins found in the area of the upper Noteć basin (part of Kuyavia, Pałuki, Krajna) and their interpretation. The author points out that the numismatic finds from this area constitute a clear concentration throughout Poland
The article concerns an unpublished article by Zygmunt Zakrzewski regarding coin finds in Kuyavia, Pałuki and Krajna, written in 1938, whose publication was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.
