Lithuania_1940_MiNr449_LTSR_001.jpg

Description

Stamp of Lithuania; 1940; Soviet occupation; definitive stamp of the issue "L.T.S.R."
Stamp : Michel: No. 449 (LT) (= No. 408 (1937) with overprint) ; Yvert & Tellier: No. 382 (LT) (= No 353 (1937) with overprint)
Color : red orange with blue overprint
Watermark : Lithuania No. 7 (Gediminas gates)
Nominal amount : 2 cnt. (Centų)
Overprint : blue, double-spaced, L T S R / 1940 VII 21
( L.T.S.R. = "Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika" = Lithuanian for "Lithuanian Socialist Soviet Rebublic" )

Postage validity : from 21 August 1940 until 15 March 1941

Date

21 August 1940 (first issue day of the stamp)

Source

scan of original

Author

Lithuanian postal administration

Permission
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Picture description	Lithuanian blazonry, Gediminas-gate and Cross of Lorraine
First day of issue	21 August 1940
Publisher	Postal administration of the Lithuanian Socialist Soviet Republic
Design	?
Printer	Spindulys, Kaunas
Printing technique	Lithographic printing
Circulation	300,000
Perforation	Line perforation, L 14½
MICHEL Nr.	Litauen, Nr. 449

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21 August 1940