Every week we compile list of rare stamps and covers on the market. These are some of the most interesting philatelic items that we felt are interesting enough for collectors to browse. Rare Stamps and Covers | Jan 2010 | Feb 2010 | Mar 2010 | Apr 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | [...]
Every week we compile list of rare stamps and covers on the market. These are some of the most interesting philatelic items that we felt are interesting enough for collectors to browse. Rare Stamps and Covers | Jan 2010 | Feb 2010 | Mar 2010 | Apr 2010 | May 2010 | Jul 2010 1937 [...]
Every week we compile list of rare stamps and covers on the market. These are some of the most interesting philatelic items that we felt are interesting enough for collectors to browse. Rare Stamps and Covers | Jan 2010 | Feb 2010 | Mar 2010 | Apr 2010 | June 2010 | July 2010 1923 [...]
Lūšė is a railway station ca. 20 km north-west of Mažeikiai, on a major rail route Liepaja – Šiauliai – Vilnius. Provisional postal markings show that a Lithuanian postal facility was at work at the Lūšė railway station in 1920, but as its name does not appear in the basic Pašto Valdyba documents for 1919 [...]
Surviving provisional postal markings demonstrate that in 1919 there was a Lithuanian postal facility at Gudžiūnai, which is a railway station on the Šiauliai – Kaišiadorys route, ca. 15 km south of Baisogala. However, there is no record of its opening in the documents of Pašto Valdyba for 1919 – a gap explained by the [...]
Mikelmontas as a very short-lived Lithuanian place-name was known in czarist times as Michelmond. It is a railway station on the Šiauliai – Kaišiadorys (Koschedary) – Vilnius route, ca. 15 km south of Baisogala (Bejsagola). Because of its proximity to the township Gudžiūnai (Gudzjuny), the two place-names were prone to confusion and in ca. the [...]
Every week we compile list of rare stamps and covers on the market. These are some of the most interesting philatelic items that we felt are interesting enough for collectors to browse. Rare Stamps and Covers | Jan 2010 | Feb 2010 | Mar 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | July 2010 Lithuania [...]
When the German troops moved into Žemaitija and Courland on April 27, 1915, within a few days Seda (Siady) was inspected by reco cavalrymen of 6th Cav. Div. (6. Kavallerie-Division). Later the township became the administrative seat of the district of Siady. However, no post office was established there within the civilian Postgebiet Ob.-Ost system. [...]
Every week we compile list of rare stamps and covers on the market. These are some of the most interesting philatelic items that we felt are interesting enough for collectors to browse. Rare Stamps and Covers | Jan 2010 | Feb 2010 | Apr 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | July 2010 Lithuania [...]
The town of Kelmė (Kelmy, Kielmy) lies on the strategic highway linking Tilsit in northern East Prussia and Šiauliai (Schaulen). In WWI, during the German advance into Žemaitija and Courland which started on April 27, 1915, Kelmė after some heavy fighting by cavalry was taken by Abteilung Pappritz on April 29. During the German occupation [...]