Cancellations of Lit.SSR - 09

Плунге/Plungė 1962

Вильнюс-ОПП/Vilnius-PPS Machine Cancellation 1967

It has a nice picture of the village of Likėnai

Алитус/Alytus Machine Cancellation 1971

Advertisement of the Soviet national carrier Aeroflot

Veisiejai 1936

This is a registered cover sent in 1936 from Veisiejai to Alytus. Like the cover of Veisiejai during the German occupation I have posted before in this blog, the postmark is "Veisejai" instead of Veisiejai, but the registration label has a correct modern spelling. Nice arrival cancellation of Alytus can be seen on the back of the cover, as well as the old spelling "Veisėjai" written by the sender. Veisiejai (Wiejsieje in polish) is known to be the place where the Esperanto language has been given birth by a Białystok/Balstogė ophthalmologist Zamenhof while he worked here.

Coat of Arms series - 1

Modern Lithuanian stamps are not really my speciality but however, there are several of them I really like. One of them are those Coat of Arms series, issued every year from 1992. It shows you different city coat of arms (except in the first issue, there is a national one) across the nation. 

 1992 issue - Kėdainiai, Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania

This first issue is the only one with Talonas as the face value.

The size is slightly smaller than others.

1993 issue - Skuodas, Telšiai, Klaipėda

 1994 issue - Punia, Alytus, Perloja

1995 issue - Virbalis, Kudirkos Naumiestis

This issue is the only one with 2 stamps.

 1996 issue - Šeduva, Panevėžys, Zarasai

Zarasai has an eccentric coat of arms with an imaginary creature symbolizing the wealth of its nature.

1997 issue - Neringa, Vilkaviškis, Pasvalys

1998 issue - Kernavė, Trakai, Kaunas

Trakai's arms has a head of St. John the Baptist, just in case you are wondering... It supposed to symbolize the Christianization of the town.

1999 issue - Marijampolė, Šiauliai, Rokiškis

Very nice coat of arms of Šiauliai

This modern arms is based on the 1791 arms with the Samogitia bear (Šiauliai was the center of  the duchy Samogitia), Eye of Providence symbolizing parliament and the red calf of the House of Poniatowski, the royal family of King Stanislaus August Poniatowski who granted this arms.

Cancellations of Lit.SSR - 05

Алитус/Alytus 1955 

 from Паукштакяй/Paukštakiai (Plungė district) to Kulautuva 1962

arrival cancellation of Kulautuva on the back and very rare Paukštakiai postmark in dark blue ink

Салос/Salos, a village in  Rokiškis district municipality 1962

Скуодас/Skuodas 1963 

registered mail from Литовское БКП/BKP Lithuania in Vilnius for official use 1976

It is interesting that the inscrisption "Заказное" (registered mail) and the registration label on the top left corner are hand written. Литовское БКП is probably the abbreviation of  Бюро контроля переводов (Lietuvos perlaidų kontrolės biuras / Lithuanian Remittance Control Office). Thank you Audrius for the info.

Alytus 2011

This is a FDC of the commemorative stamps of Alytaus kraštotyros muziejus (Alytus regional museum) cancelled in Alytus on 04/06 2011. The first day cancellation depicts the wooden statue of saint John of Nepomuk which the museum owns. John of Nepomuk was a Czech saint (called Jan Nepomucký in Czech) popular in Lithuania during the Catholic counter-reformation period, depicted in numerous places throughout the country including the coat of arms of Anykščiai.

Cancellations of Postgebiet Ob.Ost

"Postgebiet Ob.Ost" stands for Postgebiet Oberbefehlshaber Ost, which means: Postal district of the Supreme Commander in the East.

Wladislawow (now Kudirkos Naumiestis)

Wylkowyszki (now Vilkaviškis)

Schaulen (now Šiauliai)

Wilna (now Vilnius), rare Michel #12A

Olita (now Alytus), Michel #12B