Memel (Klaipėda)
Stamps of 1921
Klaipėda (Memel) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. The city has a complex recorded history, partially due to the combined regional importance of the usually ice-free Port of Klaipėda at the mouth of the Akmena-Danė River. It was controlled by successive German states until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
As a result of the 1923 Klaipėda Revolt it was annexed by Lithuania and has remained with Lithuania to this day, except between 1939 and 1945 when it returned to Germany following the 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (between Germany and the Soviet Union).
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"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'solid broken bar | MEMEL | value'"
Issued: Apr 1921. French issue stamps overprinted with 'solid broken bar | MEMEL | denomination'.
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"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value | solid bar'"
Issued: 14th May 1921 to 15th Sep 1922. French issue stamps overprinted with 'Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value | solid bar'.
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"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'FLUGPOST'"
Issued: 6th to 30th Jul 1921. French issue stamps overprinted with 'FLUGPOST'.
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"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'broken solid bar | MEMEL | value'"
Issued: 15th Nov and 2nd Dec 1921. French issue stamps overprinted with 'broken solid bar | MEMEL | value'.