Real Photo Postcard with the monument to Vincas Mickevicius-Kapsukas in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, canceled with 1st Day stamp, artists identified on verso, 1974.
The size is 6" x 4", postally unused, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation unknown. The preprinted government postal stamp is canceled with the First Day cancel of the Vilnius Post Office dated 7 April 1980. Apparently, a number of these postcards issued in 1974 and still unsold in 1980, were "adapted" as special-edition First Day postcards. The names of the sculptor and photographer, P. Vaivada and B. Elin, respectively, are printed in the upper left-hand corner on the verso.
In excellent condition, showing only microscopic corner bumps, barely not
The size is 6" x 4", postally unused, published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, circulation unknown. The preprinted government postal stamp is canceled with the First Day cancel of the Vilnius Post Office dated 7 April 1980. Apparently, a number of these postcards issued in 1974 and still unsold in 1980, were "adapted" as special-edition First Day postcards. The names of the sculptor and photographer, P. Vaivada and B. Elin, respectively, are printed in the upper left-hand corner on the verso.
In excellent condition, showing only microscopic corner bumps, barely noticeable and not detractive.
Vincas Mickevicius-Kapsukas (Kapsukas being his pen name) was a Lithuanian communist political activist, publicist and revolutionary, the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Lithuanian SSR in 1918-1919. Not only the 400-year-old university but the entire city of Marijampole, where he studied at a gymnasium, was named after his pen name.
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