Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Kintai 1939


A postally unused card from Kinten (now Kintai, Lithuania) cancelled in march 30th 1939. Kintai is a village in Šilutė district with a population of little over 800.

12 comments:

  1. Hi, it's really great envelope. Gratulations.
    I understand, thats all fond, which You present is from your collectiion?
    Best regard from Warsaw, Zoran

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  2. Thank you for stopping by! Yes, those are all my personal collection. Some of them i bought in a philatelic shop in Poland, mainly in Gdańsk. Any place in Warsaw which you would recommend?

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  3. If we are talking about philately, i would like to recommend some polish auction service: www.allegro.pl. You can find there a lot of interesting things.
    If you are looking for stamps or postcard from Lithuania, keep it a link:
    http://allegro.pl/listing.php/search?sg=0&string=litwa&category=76

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  4. Thank you very much Zoran for this nice auction site! Im especially interested in pre-1939 Polish stamps with cancellations of towns and villages in Województwo wileńskie. I think i have a big chance to find it soon or later in this site!

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  5. It's really, really fantastic, that you are interested in philatelistic topic of ex-polish teritory like a Wilno Voivodship. Have you ever been there?

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  6. I used to live in Vilnius. And i have traveled between Vilnius and Prague(CZ) every 2 or 3 months for almost 7 years because of my work. Most of the time via Wawa. Unfortunately, i have never been in the Belarus part of Wilno Voivodship. i like history of this region very much and this is the reason i collect stamps, letters, postcards, old books and maps of it. Do you also collect them?

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  7. Im focused on history of East Prussia. I collect old books, maps, documents and other things from my favourite province.
    You can see also my second site about former Ortelsburg/Szczytno:
    www.kreisortelsburg.blogspot.com

    It's really unbelivable, thats man from Japan interested in history of this region.
    Do you know polish language, a little?

    Pozdrawiam, Zoran

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  8. Yes, i totally agree with you, Ostpreußen is an extremely interesting subject. As you can see in my blog, i collect items from Memelland but i also have many items from other parts of Ostpreußen. This subject is so big and i would like to take time to explore it. I just looked to your blog on Ortelsburg. It is really a great blog!I will need a little more time to understand the polish. Mowia po czesku, ale nie moge mowic tak dobrze polski.. Dla prosta rozmowe, starczy! (or wystarczy?) :)

    Pozdravim (very similar to polish!), Ray

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  9. Czeski, trochę podobny, ale tylko troszeczkę.
    As regard your Memelgebeit collection, i saw it. Really interesting, but I treat this as a part of the occupied by Germans.
    Have you ever been in Memel or Kaliningrad district?
    Pozdrawiam, Zoran.

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  10. Indeed, it has been created with a militaly occupation by the Tutonic order. The toponyms of this region, especially names of villages and rivers, are clearly not from a german origin. Not only Klaipėda, but i have traveled through the former Memelgebiet. It it really a nice region. I have never been to Kaliningrad district so far but someday i definitely will!
    Why do you have a particular interest in Szczytno?

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  11. My My family comes from there, thats the reason. This is small town in Ostpreussen-Sud, near the former border between German and Poland.
    You are in Japan,now? I've heard about this horrible earthquake.

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  12. Thank you for your concern! Im in Tokyo safely. Looks like we still have some problems ahead but hopely it will be ok..

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