postal history
Gruzdžiai 1919
In WWI, Gruzdžiai (Gruzdzi, Grusdi, Grusen), a township ca. 20 km north of Šiauliai (Schaulen), was involved in the swift German advance resulting in the taking of Šiauliai on April 30, 1915, then their retreat and their repeated taking of Šiauliai on July 21. Around Gruzdžiai, the troops active on both sides were mostly cavalry, [...]
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This website is organized exclusively for educational purposes; more specifically, to promote and encourage the study, understanding, preservation and appreciation of the philately and postal history of Lithuania.
Our philatelic links directory is especially useful for its hand-picked links to Lithuania philatelic organizations, philatelic experts, philatelic auctions, stamp catalogs, rare stamps, and private collections online. Our aim is to make it the most comprehensive specialized Lithuanian philatelic directory on the Internet.The second goal of this site is not only to provide links, but also to provide a reference point for collectors and dealers of stamps, and other philatelic items. We are adding more content to the website so please visit us soon for new updates
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Although we have accomplished a large amount of work, we have yet to complete move of our search programs and databases for searching partial names of various towns and localities found on postal markings (LT-PostLoc) and Lithuania stamp cross-reference database (LTxRef). Our new Apache Web Server is incompatible with our old server pages (ASP) and database used on our previous website. In other words, there is a lot of programming work to be done.
stamp collecting
Rare Stamps and Covers
Every week we compile list of rare stamps and covers on the market. These are some of the most interesting ...
Stamp Collecting Supplies
Below are given information and prices of basic stamp collecting supply items (albums, catalogs, watermark detectors, tongs, etc.) that a ...
Search Databases
This page lists our philatelic programs and databases available online. The LT-PostLoc is our second database-backed program for searching partial ...
Collectors
This page isn't just for collectors of Lithuania stamps. Anyone with an interest in Baltic stamp collecting or interested in ...
local issues
Telšiai Local Issue of 1920 The 1920 Telšiai Postmaster’s provisional issue, hectographed on both plain and ruled paper with a blank space for eventual inscription of value. The stamps were hectographed on January 13, 1920 using the post office seal of Telšiai. Altogether 20-22 sheets of ordinary paper and 2-3 sheets of lined paper were divided into 18 sections –three [...]
provisional postmarks
Provisional Manuscript Cancels These early manuscript markings are very rare. Postmasters used pen cancellations because they did not have standard hand stamps. These manuscript cancels were used until the introduction of the Lithuanian standard postmarks.
Disclaimer – the illustrations used here solely for educational purposes.
Please help us to expand this page by sending scans of manuscript cancels found on [...]
stamp forgeries
The 1932 Airmail Forgeries Forgeries of these stamps (Scott C59, Michel 344) were made for packet trade. Both the originals and forgeries are lithographed but forgeries are more crudely re-produced. Forgeries exist both in perforated and imperforate. There are a number of distinguishing characteristics of these forged stamps. The key characteristics of Lithuania Mi 344 of the Michel 344 [...]
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