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 | 2010-Current | Archives | Lithuania 1919 registered cover from Kaunas to Görlitz A nice philatelic cover with a
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Celebrating the 100 postal-history article milestone for LithuanianPhilately.com! My distinguished colleagues, please join me in thanking Dr. Vytautas Doniela for his hard work, unwavering commitment and willingness to share his vast knowledge with us. We spent many enjoyable hours reading his articles and discovering the riches of postal history and provisional postmark collecting.
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 | 2010-Current | Archives | Lithuania 1935 Vaitkus Flight Cover Lituanica II A scarce 1935 flight cover No 799
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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 | 2010-Current | Archives | 1937 Lithuania Virbalis customs label A nice cover from Panevezys to Egypt, Virbalis customs
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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 | 2010-Current | Archives | 1923 Lithuania cover to Breslau sent via Railroad Mail Service A nice postal use
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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
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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
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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
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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 | 2010-Current | Archives | Lithuania 1863 pre-stamp era Palanga cover A pre-stamp era cover with a circular Polangen
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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.
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