[LIPKOWSKI Józef] Business card with handwritten note and autograph. 1917

Business card of Jozef Lipkowski (1863-1949) with handwritten note and autograph. Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.2 cm.
Lipkowski writes that he is returning from a two-day hunt and that he will be "completely busy" in the near future, while thanking him for the nice letter that found him upon his return.

Józef Lipkowski (1863-1949) - Polish engineer, inventor, designer, emigration activist, writer and poet, general of the Polish Army. During the First World War he was an expert on armaments for the French government, also working for Polish independence. in 1917 he became co-founder and first president of the Association of Polish Engineers and Technicians in France. After the war, he was appointed head of the Polish Military Mission. He took part in the Polish-Bolshevik war. He held very important positions in various economic and industrial organizations.