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| METER POSTAGE STAMPS FROM THE SOVIET PERIOD |
A bilingual meter postage stamp from Kaunas, 1972:

= Executive Committee = Kaunas'
= Municipality
Real size of the bmp-scan: 15,809 x 11,502 cm.
All pictures on this page, if not mentioned otherwise: scanned about 150 dpi (real size in most printers) and saved as bmp. Then converted into gif-format and resized 50%. Real size of the bmp-scan is not the same as size of the letter
This stamp comes from a factory in Panevezys, 1985:

= Panevezhys = factory (of)
= Precision- = mechanics.
Real size of the bmp-scan: 16,468 x 11,451 cm.
Another type postmark. The left part with date and place-indication has turned a quarter, in the right part the value-indication is now vertical and CCCP not longer at the bottom but at the right of the value-indication. The text is complete Russian:

Envelope from Kaunas, 1985, sent by a = silk
= industrial complex.
Real size of the bmp-scan: 16,518 x 11,704 cm.
From Kaunas, 1987:

Send by = People's court,
Pozhalsk area.
Real size of the bmp-scan: 14,795 x 11,856 cm.
Another factory in Kaunas, 1988:

Afzender is: = Production.., company.. = wool
= Association "Drobe".
Real size of the bmp-scan: 16,518 x 11,806 cm.
LITERATURE
| Mininiu voku katalogas 1950 - 1990 (Katalog für künstlerisch gestaltete Briefumschläge) / Kostas Aleksynas. - Vilnius, 1991 |
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Revisited / by P.J. Campbell
In: Rossica 1997 ; no. 128-129. - p. 134-154 |
[About: this postmark for 'international post'] |
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