Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Klaipėda 1920



A registered cover sent in 1920 under the French Administration from Memel, now Klaipėda, Lithuania to Bunde, Germany. The violet stamp written "M.P.k." is the military censorship in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). According to the arrival cancellation on the back, it has been delivered in 3 days. The sender is a certain Otto Kehrmann living in Rosenstr / Rosen-Straße 2 Memel, this street does not exist anymore in present Klaipėda.
Acquired in 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.

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