1941, from Riga to Koknese, picture postcard with photographic
Easter motif showing a ribbon wrapped egg and pussy willow
branches,
1941, from Riga to Koknese, picture postcard with photographic
Easter motif showing a ribbon wrapped egg and pussy willow
branches, Fotobrom Riga imprint, franked with 20 Santimu green
Worker and Peasant type stamp of the Latvian SSR under Soviet
occupation, tied by RIGA LATVIJA datestamp, arrival datestamp
KOKNESE 11 IV 41 LATVIJA on front, sent shortly before the German
invasion of the Baltic states in June 1941 during the first Soviet
occupation of Latvia 1940-1941, local Easter greetings postmarked
just two months before Operation Barbarossa, scarce use of
Latvian-language stamp and postmarks in early Soviet postal
context, ex Kugel, VF! Schätzpreis 400€.
