Rare stamps and covers (Feb 2015)

Lithuania 1919 local issue Grodno

Letters franked with local issue 50 sk stamps mailed locally (4.3.1919) from Lithuanian Gardinas post office to German Frw. Feldpost 3007.

eBay listing – Ended: Feb 7, 2015. Sold: $105 (9 bids)

eBay listing – Ended: Mar 1, 2015. Did not sell: $80

Lithuania 1924 Stylized Cross Mi 215 used

Very rare as used, Litauen Wz Schlingen Mi 215. Klein certificate. MiCV 1000€

eBay listing – Ended: Feb 17, 2015. Sold: $540 (25 bids)

Lithuania 1939 Pavilnys

Postal stationery card mailed from Kolonia Wileńska (Lit. Pavilnys) to Kraków, Poland via railway-post route 15 (Kaunas-Vilnius-Turmantas), date 14-XI-1939, the earliest known use (EKU).

eBay listing – Ended: Feb 20, 2015. Sold: $75 (1 bid)

Lithuania 1935 Vaitkus Flight Cover

A 1935 flight covers Nos 781 and 742 carried on the second transatlantic flight from New York to Kaunas by a Lithuanian-American aviator Felix Waitkus (Feliksas Vaitkus). Because of some seriously bad weather en-route, his plane Lituanica II was forced to land in Ireland near Ballinrobe. Mail bag with 998 letters was transferred to Lithuania personally by the pilot himself where each letter was postmarked at the Kaunas Central Post Office. Feliksas Vaitkus was sixth pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic.