Monday, June 14, 2010

Šiauliai 1986




3 registered covers posted from Šiauliai/Шяуляй to Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1986. All 3 covers use commemorative envelope (the 1st one with 5Kopeks value stamp inprinted, sold through out the Soviet Union, the 2 others, without inprinted value, was sold only locally within Lithuania SSR) of 750th anniversary of the city of Šiauliai, as well as the commemorative stamps and the First day cancellation. After WW2, Lithuania was incorporated to the USSR as the "Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania".
Acquired in 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic.

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