Polonica by Karl Erik Stenebrg

Salvete Omnes,
a very short entry:

 Polish Arms website  has made available Polonica  a free-to-download ebook of the rarest kind and quality, namely a 1943 photo album being the collection(in Swedish and Polish) of some of the Old Polish historic artifacts held at the Royal Armory in Sweden.
The description from their page:

“Polonica” is a small catalogue of 60 Polish objects kept in the 

Livrustkammaren collection in Stockholm.

This small but informative booklet is written in Swedish and Polish 

but pdf file which is for free was ocr-ed, it means the text can be highlighted 

and copied by a user, for convenient use in on-line translators.

The book consist of black & white pictures of the most important objects

 that were either given to Swedish kings or became spoils of war 

in 1655-1656 and 1702-1706, when Swedish army invaded Poland.

 Please note, that the Stockholm Roll is no longer in Stockholm, as painting was returned by Olof Palme to Polish care and custody at the Warsaw Royal Castle in 1974.
For the last month or so the Rolka (Roll) had been on display  at the Royal Castle, but the exhibit closed yesterday.
Valete

Skokloster Castle - XVII century collections

Salve,
last day of January - time flies, it will be spring soon :)
The Skokloster Castle, Sweden, was built by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, who was a skilled cavalry commander and later a politician, a governor of Swedish Pomerania, today divided between Poland and Federal Republic of German.

The collections at the castle are very fine and diverse, but they are very interesting when comes to horses, cavalry and Polish arms and armor captured by the Swedes during the wars with Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - so called Polonica.
The horse collection special exhibit is here (in large tiff files )- with great baroque saddles and horse tack, and portraits of ladies riding, and a model stable etc.

But there are also some Polish ones - saddles and bridles

also some examples of the winged hussar armor; some of the winged hussar armor suits seem to have been converted later on, or so the appear, with 1670s additions etc

beautiful anima armor

enjoy