Druskininkai 1961

This is a postal stationery with an illustration of a children's sanatorium in Друскининкай/Druskininkai, issued in 1961, in mint condition.

Vilnius 1910

A registered cover sent in 1910 from Вильна Вокзаль/Vilna Vokzal(Vilnius station) to Hamburg, Germany. Vilna station post office is now called "Vilnius 13" in the modern Lithuania. The sender is St.-Petersburger Privat-Handels-Bank Wilnaer Filiale/St. Petersburg Private Trade Bank Vilnius branch office. The inscription "заказное" means "registered" in russian.

Raseiniai 1941

Those are one of the local "liberation" overprint stamps issued in 1941 in Raseiniai. The date on the overprint is day when Raseiniai has been "liberated" from the Soviets by the germans. According to Michel, it has 3 types of overprints, from left to right Type I, II and III. They can be easily recognized by the font of the overprints. Michel also mentioned Raseiniai as Rossingen but with the establishment of Deutsche Dienstpost Ostland, The Nazi authority officially renamed the town: Raseinen.

Raseiniai 1919

Those are the stamps with an inscription "Raseinių apskričio pašto ženklas". It was locally issued for Raseiniai in 1919. The colorful cancellations are provisional ones. According to lithuanianphilately.com, the 2 rings red curcular postmark was the first edition and the 3 rings blue postmark is the third one. The stamp itself has 2 types, Type 1 with the frame corner opened (the stamps on the right side), Type 2 is closed (left side).

Kaunas 1929

This is a registered cover of Lietuvos Kredito Bankas/Lithuanian Credit bank sent in 1929 from Kaunas to the Universal State Bank in Chicago. Unfortunately, the cover is a little damaged but the arrival cancellations of Chicago has stayed pretty well.

Raseiniai 1938

A cover sent in 1938 from Raseiniai to Bayonne, New Jersey USA.

Šiauliai 1918

2 postcards sent from an unknown feldpost station in 1918 during the german occupation, probably posted from Šiauliai. The pictures are the ones of Szaulen (now Šiauliai, Lithuania) and was published by Pawlowski in Tilsit (now Советск/Sovietsk in Kaliningrad district)from the series "Tageblatt für Litauen" (newspaper for Lithuania).

Švepeliai (Klaipėda) 1970

Here is a commemorative cover of the centennial of the birth of Lenin, sent from Klaipėda post office #11(11-asis paštas) located in Švepeliai, now part of Klaipėda municipality. Švepeliai was called Schweppelen in german and used to be one of the villages surrounding Memel. Unfortunately, Soviet cancellations do not contain the name of the municipal district, in this case, it just states the name of the post office Клайпеда 11/Klaipėda 11. The cover design is surprisingly nice, containing the image of the town of Ulyanovsk (now Simbirsk, Russia), the native town of Lenin near the Volga river.