Coat of Arms series - 2

 2000 issue with the coat of arms of Raseiniai, Tauragė and Utena

 2001 issue with Lazdijai, Biržai and Veliuona

 2002 issue with Anykščiai, Prienai and Birštonas

The coat of arms of Anykščiai features Šv. Jonas Nepomukas (St. John of Nepomuk), the patron saint of bridges. He was Czech (Sv. Jan Nepomucký) and was the symbol of the Catholic Counter Reformation in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania.

Anykščiai 1928

This is a Lithuanian postal stationery sent in 1928 from Anykščiai to Germany (Vokietija). 15 centų was a postal rate only for the domestic destination but Germany, Latvia and Estonia were the exception at that time unless the mail was airmail.

Anykščiai Railway post line No. 201. 1902

Very rare railway postmark line No. 201 Švenčionėliai-Panevėžys

Arrival cancellation of Уцяны / Utsyany (Utena)

This is a very nice registered cover sent in 1902 from  Оникшты / Onikshty (now Anykščiai, Lithuania), Ковен. г./Kovenskaya Guberniya (Kaunas Gubernia) to Уцяны/Utsyany (now Utena, Lithuania) also in the same Kaunas Gubernia. There is also a railway postmark (Почтовыи вагон/Pochtovyi vagon) of the line No.201 running from Ново-Свенцяны / Novo-Sventsyany (Švenčionėliai) to ПоневѢж / Ponevezh (Panevėžys), which stopped at both, Anykščiai an Utena. 

Anykščiai 1912

A postal stationery sent from Оникшты/Onikshty (now Anykščiai, Lithuania), Ков (Kovna/Kaunas Gubernia) to Hannover, Germany. The date is pretty interesting, it has been sent on december 12th, 1912 which makes 12.12.12 on the cancellation. Anykščiai is town in north eastern part of Lithuania with a population of little over 10000. The neo-gothic church of St. Matthias (Šv. Mato bažnyčia) in Anykščiai is known for being the tallest church in the country.

Anykščiai 1907

Оникшты / Onikshty (now Anykščiai, Lithuania)

This is telegraph service receipt issued in 1907 by the post office in Оникшты / Onikshty (now Anykščiai, Lithuania), Ковенск. г./Kovenskaya Guberniya (Kovna/Kaunas Gubernia).

Anykščiai overprint 1941

Not much is known about this stamp. It is a local issue of a town called Anykščiai, during the german occupation. A date "1941 VI.23" is overprinted on the stamp, this is the day when Anykščiai was "liberated" from the Soviet by the Germans. Six other places issued their own local liberation stamps. They are (in chronological order of the overprinted date) : Raseiniai / Rossingen (later Raseinen) 1941.VI.23, Alsėdžiai / Aledschen 24–VI–41, Ukmergė / Wilkomir 1941 VI 24, Telšiai / Telschen (later Telsche)1941.VI.26, Zarasai / Zargrad (later Ossersee) 1941–VI–26, Panevėžys / Ponewesch 27 VI 41 and Rokiškis / Rakischki (later Rokischken) 1941–VI–27. VILNIUS overprint can be also considered as a local issue but it was rather issued for the whole Vilnius region. That is also the reason why there is no date on the VILNIUS overprint, depending on the location, there was a slight chronological difference on the "liberated" date. Regardless of the date, unlike other issues, the Anykščiai overprint does not have the name of the place that has been issued. The denomination is also not certain, so far I have recognised 5 kopecks stamp (on Soviet stamp Michel Nr. 676) which is the one I have uploaded and the only one I have, 10 kopecks (Michel Nr. 677) and 15 kopecks (Michel Nr. 679). Michel mentions about this stamp, even puts a picture of it, but does not list in number neither gives catalogue value for it. Estimated number of issue : less than 100