This is a maximum card of a Russian astronaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Валентина Владимировна Терешкова) cancelled in Zarasai, Lithuania S.S.R. in 1963 which is also the year this stamp has been issued. I have seen many maximum cards but most of them are cancelled in Vilnius or Kaunas so I was a bit surprised to see a Zarasai one. According to Wikipedia, Valentina Tereshkova was the first female ever to have flown in space. But why a Zarasai postmark? I don't know...
Because it is selfmade cardmaximum. Someone, who lived in Zarasai made souvenire in local post office. Usually cerdmaximums were made in Vilnius by offical post administration ant after it was sold to collectioneers. But rules let make cardmaximums by himself, only post mark must be put on in the same day, when stamp was isuued {really, when was began to sell}.
ReplyDeleteI wish there were much more self made max.card in the market. Lithuanian max.card during the USSR era is not exactly an easy find, especially from the 50's and the 60's which are the ones I like.
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