365 / September 2017

1933, Riga-Bathurst Flight, 10-100s., mint never hinged, fine, signed

1933, Riga-Bathurst Flight, 10-100s., mint never hinged, 25s. tiny adherence, very fine

1933, Riga-Bathurst Flight, 10-100s., all marginal copies, mint never hinged, 25 and 100s. toned gum, fine

1933, Riga-Bathurst Flight, 10-100s., unused, very fine

1933, Bathurst-flight 10-100 s., used, very fine, signed Rucins a.o.

1933, Riga-Bathurst Flight, 10-25s., blocks of six, mint never hinged, very fine, signed

1936, Writers and Poets 3-35s., archive proofs, imperforated vertical pairs, without gum, scarce, fine, signed R

1937 President Ulmanis 3-50s., archive proofs, imperforated vertical pairs, without gum, rare, fine

Essays for landscape pictorial issue, 5 s. dark olive brown imperforated depicting a bridge across the river Gauja near of Sigulda and 20 s. blue perforated depicting the castle of Jelgava, 5s. from the right sheet margin without gum, rare, fine

1994, CEPT 50 s. without golden inscription, from lower sheet margin with inscription "1994", mint never hinged, only few copies known, fine

ESSAY: 1940, Coat of arms in a different design with oak leaves 20 S. in lilac-carmine perforated L10¼, on watermarked paper with upper sheet margin, mint never hinged, scarce, fine

1938, 20th Anniversary of the Republic, booklet with 4 stamps at 3 s., 4 stamps at 5 s., 3 stamps at 10 s., 4 stamps at 20 s. and 2 stamps at 35 sant, used, few wrinkles, fine

"JAUN-GULBENE" mit handwritten date on 25 and 75 k. on registered value declared cover to Riga with arrival mark, fine and rare 

1901, "700 Years of Riga" multi-coloured vignette on special picture postcard to Detmold, fine

IRON DIVISION: Registered cover with 5 k. red as horizontal strip of seven tied by cds. "DUNDAGA 5.4.19" to registered cover to Eisleben and forwarded to Emsdorf, very early cover, fine

1920, "MILITARY MISSION BALTIC STATES" violett oval cachet on picture postcard of Riga through the war office in London to Kisumu, corner crease at lower left, otherwise fine

LATVIAN SS-DIVISION: 1945, proofs, 4 different designs as horizontal strips of four resp. three, in blue, light- and dark green, orange and red

1919, 15 k. orange imperforated, three singles and additional franking tied by cds. "ELEJA" with handwritten date "4 11 19" to registered cover to Riga, fine, very rare

15-30 k., two singles each, tied by cds. "ELEJA" with and without handwritten date to pieces, fine, one signed Rucins

1919, Second Kaunas issue 40 sk. imperforated as block of four with bottom sheet margin,  without gum, fine

1919, 2nd. Kaunas Issue 60 sk. as complete sheet, between 3rd and 4th. stamp imperforated horizontally, used with clear cds. "KAUNAS 17.III.19", very fine and as complete sheet very rare (PSL.-Nr. 19d)

50 sk. imperforated as complete sheet of 20, position 10 "etuvos" for "Lietuvos" variety, unused without gum as issued, slight kiss printing visible, without gum, a very rare sheet, few stains mostly on the margin,  otherwise fine

1922, Kestutis 1a. with double blue center, block of four with small top margin, unused with adherence, few slight stains, otherwise fine

1921, Airmail 1a. as imperforated block of 12, the lower right stamp unused, otherwise mint never hinged, very fine

1921, Airmail plate proofs, 20 sk.-5 a., seven different proofs, without gum, fine (Lithuanian Handbook PC8-14, 14a)

1921, Airmail 80 sk. as vertical pair, imperforated between stamps, unused with some adherence, fine

1922, De Jure proofs, 2 imperfoated proofs, without gum, fine (Lithuanian Handbook P113a,b)

10 c. on 2a. on thick paper, block of four with left sheet margin, a scarce multiple, mint never hinged few few fingerprints, otherwise fine, 

1923, castle ruin Kaunas 60c. without watermark, mint never hinged, a very rare stamp with only a handful copies known, tiny fingerprint, otherwise fine

1926, War invalids 2c. on 5c. green with double, one inverted overprint, mint never hinged, small natural inclusion at top, fine

5c. on 10c. violett as horizontal pair with left sheet margin, with shifted overprint thus partially double, mint never hinged, tiny stained spot at top, otherwise fine

1935, Vaitkus 40 c., unused, fine

1935, Vaitkus 40 c. with left sheet margin, unused, fine

1940, Lithuanian SSR 10 c. with inverted overprint, mint never hinged, fine, scarce only 100 printed

1996, Coat of arms 40-50ct. each as imperforated horizontal pair, mint never hinged, fine

1997, catechism 50c. with erroneous inprint "PIRIMAJAI" as block of four, mint never hinged, fine