This is a registered mail sent in 1928 from Kaunas to Dresdner Bank in Nürnberg, Germany. The cover design of the Lietuvos Bankas (Bank of Lithuania) is very nice! Like the First air post issue of the Lietuvos Vaikas, it features the territory of Lithuania including the Vilnius region under occupation. On the back, an arrival cancellation of Nürnberg and a nice seal of Lietuvos Bankas can be seen.
A few words also about "Vokietija", namely "Germany" in Lithuanian. It derives from the word "Volk", meaning "People".
ReplyDeleteGermany is called in several ways in other languages, but only two languages use a word deriving from "Volk". They are just Lithuanian ("Vokietija") and Latvian ("Vācija").
Estonians ("Saksamaa") and Fins ("Saksa"), instead, use to call Germany with a word deriving from "Sachsen" (Saxony).
I didn't know that it derives from "volk".. Thanks for the info!
ReplyDeleteThanks to your post I remembered that I have a similar envelope from 27th October 1926 and that it will go nicely in the display I'm building on Vilnius through the ages (from Russian Empire to today).
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a nice collection you have! Vilnius is really interesting because it went through numerous occupations.. Good luck on your collection!
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