Palanga : Sovjet period

During the Soviet era, a large number of illustrated postcards is issued as a postal stationary, including Palanga theme.
Stamped -ansichtkaarten, relating to Lithuania, can be found in the catalog “Ženklinių Pasto Atvirukų: Katalogas 1960-1991”. The catalog distinguishes cards with illustration (postcards), occasion (greeting) cards and cards with symbolic meaning.

Postal stationary, issued December 3, 1965

The address-side of this postcard:

This postal stationary has an imprinted stamp of the 10th series permanent postage stamps, with the year 1961.
For the postcards and illustrated postcards the postage stamp of the staring rocket of this series is used. In MGK 2004/05 four types of this imprinted postage stamp are distinguished:
I Letterpress printing (lines on background and moon with larger distance from each other)
II Offset (background and moon with the lines finer)
III Offset (finer lines on the background, moon without lines)
IV Rotogravure / Photogravure (background and moon rasterized)

The card above: clearly type I.

Four series ‘illustrated postcards’ are in this period issued with this imprinted stamp:

1. In 1961 with state arms in the middle above the -single- separation line between address data and the written message of the sender, printing data in 2 lines. In MGK: P 276-277
2. In 1961-1967 a double separation line between the address data and the message, printing data in 1 line, for the printing house is used the abbrevation МПФ ГОЗНАКА. On the right side 34 vertical bars between the address data and sender information. In MGK: P 282-287
3. In 1961-1967 idem, but the printing house full: МОСКОВСКАЯ ТИПОГРАФИЯ  ГОЗНАКА or the abbreviation of it. In MGK: P 288-293
4. In 1964-1966 the printing house ППФ ГОЗНАКА. On the right side 32 vertical bars between the address data and sender information. In MGK: P 294.This card has the printing data in 1 line and as printing house МПФ ГОЗНАКА. Also the card has a double separation line between the address data and message and 34 bars: P282-287.
   Within this second series cards МПФ  ГОЗНАКА. you can distinguish between letterpress printing, so with imprinted stamp type I (P 282-284) and offset, ( P285-287), all with type stamp II .

So this card P282-284. When we follow the schema below: violet/white P 283 I (with price indication 4 kop.).

The schema:

With state arms

	Druk	Stamp type		Color	MGK	Year
	Letterpress	I		Green/white	P 276	1961
	Offset	II		Green/white	P 277

 

Without state arms and with printing house МПФ  ГОЗНАКА

Druk	Stamp type	Color	MGK	Printing data, subdivision		Year
Letter-press	I	Green/white	P 282	4 sub-types		1961/67
		Violet/white	P 283	I with price	II without price
	I  with rectangle 23:30 in luminescent yellow	Green/white	P 284
Offset	II	Green/white	P 285	4 sub-types
		Red/white	P 286
	II with rectangle 23:30 in fluorescent yellow	Green/white	P 287

 

Without state arms and with printing house МОСКОВСКАЯ  ТИПОГРАФИЯ  ГОЗНАКА or abbreviation

Druk	Stamp type	Printing house	Color	MGK	Printing data, subdivision	Year
Letterpress	I	МОСКОВСКАЯ  ТИПОГРАФИЯ  ГОЗНАКА	Green/white	P 288		1961/67
Offset	II			P 289
			Violet/white	P 290
			Brown/white	P 291
	III		Green/white	P 292	2 sub-types
	II	МТГ	Green/white	P 293

 

Without state arms and with printing house ППФ ГОЗНАКА

				MGK	Year
				P 294	1964/66

 

Pakketten
The cards are also sold as a package: 10 pieces. Official numbers are basically unique numbers, but there are exceptions. The cards of the pack have the same publication number. Palanga was a tourist destination and therefore eligible for the issuance of such a package.

Literature
Postwaardestukken uit de Sovjetperiode : ansichtkaarten / Jan Kaptein
In: HBG 2012 ; 60. – p. 4-25
Addition: HBG 2012 ; 61. – p. 50-51
Addition: HBG 2013 ; 62. – p. 37: postal rates