Thursday, January 20, 2011

Klaipėda-Šiauliai Railway post 1924


This is a railway post cancellation track number 5-6 between Memel (now Klaipėda, Lithuania) and Šiauliai. "Pašto vagonas" stands literally for "wagon post", which is the railway post. During the memelgebiet period, 2 different railway organisations have operated in Klaipėda, the southern line which is going to the direction of Heydekrug (now Šilutė, Lithuania)was administered by the german, used the german railway post postmark and the eastern line going to the direction of Šiauliai used the lithuanian railway post postmark.

2 comments:

  1. Hi

    Impressive blog about Memel / Klaipeda and Philately of Lithuania

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  2. Thank you Rene for stopping by! Are you also a collector in this field?

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