Showing posts with label Viešvilė. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viešvilė. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Recent Acquisitions

Here are some of the recent acquisitions of stamps:

WWI German occupation with a postmark of Schaulen (now Šiauliai, Lithuania) 1916
a stationery cut out (what a pity!) with a postmark Heydekrug (now Šilutė, Lithuania) 1895

Polish occupation period with a part of machine cancel of Wilno 2 (now Vilnius, Lithuania) 1938

Soviet stamps with a postmark of Vilnius C. 1941 during the first USSR annexation 

Postmark: Lekėčiai 1929

Postmark: Višvilė 1928 (present Viešvilė, former Wischwill, Memelgebiet)

Postmark: Alunta 1937

Monday, May 28, 2012

Cancellations of Memelgebiet/Memel district - 09 (on Deutsches Reich stamps)

 Dt./Deutsch Crottingen (now Kretingalė) 1870's
Rare rectangular postmark without year


  Wischwill am der Memel (now Viešvilė) 1920
This is a very rare postmark with the town's full name
("a. d. Memel" in the bottom part of the postmark)


  Memel (now Klaipėda) 1920


 Heydekrug (now Šilutė) 1920


Pogegen (now Pagėgiai) 1920