Šiauliai 1990

This is a registered cover sent from Šiauliai in 1990 to Prague/Praha, Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovakia cease to exist on 31st of december 1992). The stamps are the first series of the newly independent republic of Lithuania. In Šiauliai, Soviet stamps were still in use for awhile after independence but an inscription "Lietuvos Republikos PAŠTAS" was added instead. Other locations also put "Lietuvos Republikos PAŠTAS" with a variaty of their own postmarks or adding it in a machine cancellations. Provisional postmarks were often used to cancel stamps. In this case, it has been made out of old Soviet postmark by simply erasing everything except "Šiauliai" and the date.


This registered cover was sent in may 1990, before the issue of the first series in october, therefore using Soviet stamps.


A rare postal incription error written JMPRIMES instead of IMPRIMES ("printed matter" in french).