BBOOTS

new Lithuania stamp issues
 #1021  by Audrius
 
Name: “300th Anniversary of Kristijonas Donelaitis”
Issue date: 2014 01 04
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666 1.55 Lt – Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714-1780), a Prussian Lithuanian pastor and poet. He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable minority of ethnic Lithuanians. He wrote the first classic Lithuanian language poem, The Seasons (Lithuanian: Metai), which became one of the principal works of Lithuanian poetry.

Design: M. Gribauskas
Details: Offset printing. Art paper. Stamp 36x30 mm
Edition: 0.20 million
Printer: “Garsų pasaulis“ printing house (Vilnius).

Along with the postage stamp, the first day cover also is issued.
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