I haven't had much time to post on this blog nor to acquire new material lately, so I went quickly through my stock book to look what I can post and these 2 stamps caught my eyes. I've noticed I haven't posted yet the Гродна/Hrodna (Gardinas in Lithuanian) cancel. Гродна/Hrodna is a city at the edge of the present Belarussian territory between Vilnius and Białystok, Poland, known as Гродно/Grodno in Russian language. The above postmark has been used in the post office of Hrodna in 1919 when it belonged to Lithuania. It is written in Cyrillic and it says: Гродненская почтово телеграфн. контора / Grodnenskaya pochtovo telegrafn. kontora. This "date-less" postmark was only for provisional use but the city was soon taken by the Poles and never came back to Lithuania since then.
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