Category Archives: Estica

08.11.2016 – Baltic Assembly 25. Joint Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian issue.

The Baltic Assembly is an international organisation established in Tallinn on 8 November 1991 to coordinate parliamentary cooperation among the Baltic States, discuss matters and projects of common interest, address shared problems, and express joint positions. Through mutual support and interaction, the Baltic Assembly promoted the consolidation of independence, the integration into the European Union… Read More »

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Estonia 2014 and Latvia 2015 christmas stamps designed by Indrek Ilves. Additional information about Estonian and Latvian stamps as well as Estonian and Latvian christmas stamps.

Accounting form of Postage Due, Irboska 1940

Here we see a special form that was used in all postal agencies for accounting of Postage Due amounts. Pictured form was used in Irboska (now Izborsk in Russia) to account Postage Due for September 1940. Continue reading at Ahto’s Postal History Blog…

Jānis Cimze 200

03.07.2014 Latvian Post released the stamp for Jānis Cimze 200th birth anniversary. Jānis Cimze (in German Jahnis Zimse) (3.07.1814 Rauna parish (Latvia) – 22.10.1881 Valga) was a Latvian teacher, collector of folk songs and harmonizer, organist and choir director, teacher and founder of the choral culture in Latvia and Estonia. From 1839, until his death,… Read More »

Ainaži (Heinaste) lighthouse on Latvian stamp

Today, 12.09.2014 Latvian Post published Ainaži (in Estonian Heinaste) lighthouse motif stamp. On the map used as background image of the stamp shows the Gulf of Riga with Estonian coastline and western Estonian islands. In addition to the lighthouse the stamp also has part of seamen’s memorial also located in Ainaži (Heinaste). Comments and additional… Read More »

The first stamp of Imperial Russia, Weissenstein 1858

Here we see the first Russian postage stamp issued in 1857. It is cancelled using dateless 2-line “вейсен штейнъ” postmark from Weissenstein (Paide) in Estonia. This postmark is not listed in Hurt/Ojaste Handbook and was likely in use in 1858 until numeral cancel “384” arrived. Continue reading at Ahto’s Postal History Blog…

23.08.2014 – Baltic Chain 25

The Baltic Chain on August 23, 1989, was a giant demonstration initiated to influence Soviet authorities and to express the will of freedom of the people of the three Baltic nations – a human chain of nearly seven hundred kilometres from Tallinn to Vilnius. The number of people standing along the route has been assessed… Read More »