To be honest, I find pretty refreshing to see a modern postcard on this blog. I think I should do this once in a while. Well, this is a FDC postcard sent in 2008 from Kaunas to Vilnius with a nice stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of Darius & Girėnas's flight cancelled with a first day postmark. Darius & Girėnas are the Lithuanian version of the Wright brothers, who successfully flew from New York to Europe across the Atlantic ocean in 1933. However, they couldn't make it to Kaunas due to an accident somewhere in Poland. You can see their plane "Lituanica" on both stamp and postmark. If you ever have a chance to visit Lithuania, these 2 guys are pretty hard to miss, not only they are on the 10 Litas banknote but literally everywhere in any form, for example street names, school names, memorials or even in some restaurant menu like "D&G steak" or "Cocktail Lituanica", not to mention that they are a major "stamgast" topic of the trans-atlantic airmail covers.
That's okay. Either modern materials, or ancient ones, Your gathering is really interesting, impressive and awesome.
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Thank you! and Happy Easter to you too!
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