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Postal stationary envelope (PSE) of Lithuania; 1991; PSE as registered letter with mixed franking (Lithuanian + Soviet); real used from Panevėžys (German: "Ponewiesch") to Tytuvėnai (German: "Titowenen") (both in Lithuania)
PSE: Reikfil, PZ: No. 1 (Lithuania) (issue: "Oak of Rebirth")
Stamp, imprinted: Michel No. 457b; AFA: No. 454b; Reikfil No. 1 (465); PZ: No.1A
Stamp, additional: Soviet Union 1990, Michel No. 6078 (SU); Yvert & Tellier: No. 5741 (SU); AFA: No. 6007 (SU) (issue: 150th Birth Anniversary of P.I.Chaikovsky)
Stamp, additional: Lithuania 1991, Michel No. 468 (LT); Yvert & Tellier: No. 401 (LT); AFA: No. 465 (LT) (issue: National symbols - Hill of Crosses)
Color (stamp imprinted): yellowish green to dark blue green
Color (stamp, Soviet Union): dark green grey to grey (shades)
Color (stamp, Lithuania): lake-brown, chestnut and black (shades)
Nominal value: 5 (Kopekai) (PSE) + 15 (Kopeki) (Soviet stamp) + 50 (Kopekų) (Lithunaian stamp)= 70 (Kopekų) (total)
Postage validity:

PSE: from 17 May 1990 until 30 September 1992
date QS:P,+1990-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1990-05-17T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1992-09-30T00:00:00Z/11

Soviet stamp: from 25 April 1990 until September 1992
date QS:P,+1990-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1990-04-25T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1992-09-00T00:00:00Z/10

Lithuanian Stamp: from 10 January 1991 until 30 September 1992
date QS:P,+1991-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1991-01-10T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1992-09-30T00:00:00Z/11

Postmark + Registration office: Panevėžys,
Stamp picture size (Soviet stamp): 42 x 30 mm

Stamp picture size (Lithuanian stamp): 27.5 x 32.8 mm
Date

(first issue day of the PSE)

(date of postmark)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of the Ministry of Communications of Lithuania, Ministry of Communications of the USSR; private person of Lithuania
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Picture description PSE, stamp, imprinted: Angel of Freedom (Angel of Rebirth) with pillar-cross before a map of the new Lithuania in "rays of hope" (non-inverted colors)

PSE, cover picture: "Oak of Rebirth" with a shield with a Gediminas gate symbol ("Pillars of Gediminas") (The oak as symbol for the nation's strength; the Gediminas gate as symbol of the Lithuanian statehood)
Stamp, Soviet Union: P.I.Chaikovsky. (Russian composer)
Stamp. Lithuania: stylized "Hill of crosses" at Šiauliai

First day of issue (PSE)

(Soviet stamp)
(Lithuanian stamp)

Publisher Postal Administration of (the Ministry of Communications of) Lithuania; Ministry of Communications of the USSR
Design Violeta Skabeikiene (PSE)

Margarita Jasilionytė (Lithuanian stamp)

Printer Spindulys, Kaunas or other
Printing technique Offset printing (PSE)

Recess printing (Soviet stamp)
Intaglio (German: "Rakeltiefdruck") (Lithuanian stamp)

Circulation 1,079,000 (PZ for PSE)

1,081,000 (Reikfil for PSE)
2,300,000 (Michel, YT, AFA for Soviet stamp)
3,000,000 (Michel, YT, AFA, Reikfil for Lithuanian stamp)
3,200,000 (PZ for Lithuanian stamp)

Perforation none (imprinted (PSE)

Comb perforation, K 12½ x 12 (Soviet stamp)
Comb perforation, K 14 : 14¼ (Lithuanian stamp)

MICHEL Nr. Litauen No. 457a (Ganzsache - Briefumschlag); Sowjetunion, Nr. 6078; Litauen, Nr. 468

Reikfil = Reikfil (philatelic firm), "Postal issues of Lithuanian Republic - Catalogue 1990-1991", Publishing-printing firm "Misha", Vilnius, 1991
PZ = Pažto Ženklas (philatelic firm), "First postage stamps, covers, special cancels of the Republic of Lithuania - Catalogue 1990 - 1991", Vilnius, 1991

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