Memel (Klaipėda)
Stamps of 1922
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).
Michel 49 to 51
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value'"
Issued: 6th to 27th Jan 1922. French issue stamps overprinted Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value'.
Michel 52 to 71
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value | solid bar'"
Issued: 2nd Jan 1922 to Sep 1922. French issue stamps overprinted with 'Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value | solid bar'.
Michel 72 to 83
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'FLUGPOST'"
Issued: 12th May 1922. French issue stamps overprinted with 'FLUGPOST'.
Michel 84 to 97
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value | solid bar'"
Issued: 12th Sep 1922. French issue stamps Overprinted 'MEMEL | two parallel bars | value | solid bar'.
Michel 98 to 107
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'FLUGPOST' (III)"
Issued: 17th Oct 1922. French issue stamps Overprinted 'FLUGPOST'.
Michel 108 and 109
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'MEMEL | value' "
Issued: 17th Oct 1922. French issue stamps Overprinted 'MEMEL | value'.
Michel 110 to 118
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'MEMEL | value"
Issued: 17th Oct 1922. French issue stamps Overprinted 'MEMEL | value.
Michel 119 and 120
"French Issues"
"Overprinted 'MEMEL | value | two parallel lines'"
Issued: Dec 1922. French issue stamps Overprinted 'MEMEL | value | two parallel lines'.