DescriptionLithuania 1990 PSE05 B002.jpg	Postal Stationary Envelope (PSE) from Lithuania; 1990; commemorative envelope to the "Bishop M.Valančius temperance movement"; cover with post-code stencil framed PSE: Lithuania No. 5 (Reikfil, PZ) Stamp (imprinted): Michel No. 457b (PSE variant) Color (PSE-stamp): dark yellowish green to pale dark oliv Color (cover pricture): variant PSE No. 5: cover picture with dark yellow inscription variant PSE No. 5A: cover picture with pale yellow inscription The issue vatiant 5A amounts to 5% of the total printed issue. Nominal value: "5 K" (Kopekai) (sold at the post office counters for 7 Kopeks) The nominal value imprint "5 K" instead of only "5" at the angel-stamps of 1990 occurs only at the PSE variants. Postage validity (PSE): from 18 August 1990 until 30 September 1992 date QS:P,+1990-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1990-08-18T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1992-09-30T00:00:00Z/11
Date	18 August 1990 (first issue day of the PSE)
Source	scan of original
Author	Postal Administration (of the Ministry of Communications) of Lithuania
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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

To the background;
The first Lithuanian society for alcohol temperance was founded in 1846 in the Christian church parishes of Šiauliai and Šiauleniai by the then bishop Motiejus Valančius (1801-1875) after U.S.American pattern. In the following years arose subordinated temperance societies in many Lithuanian towns. The then Russian governor of Vilnius, General Murawjow, prohibit this movement on the 31 of May, 1864, as political coalition for action under treatment of severe punishment. Nevertheless was constituted in 1908 in Kaunas a new temperance society by Lithuanian Catholics. This society was renewed in 1937 as “Union of Lithuania’s Soberness”. Finally, a foundation congress of the “Bishop M. Valancius temperance movement” took place in Vilnius on the 24 of September, 1989. The present envelope should support and commemorate to this anti-alcohol campaign in 1990.