Articles by Andrew Kapochunas about Lithuanian Maps and Stamps
The Maps and Mapmakers that Helped Define 20th-Century Lithuanian Boundaries. A series:
Part 1: “Administrative Boundaries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Just Before the Partition of 1772” (2014)
Part 2: “The First Partition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1772 – Its Description and Depiction in Maps” (2015)
Part 3: “The Second Partition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1793 – Its Description and Depiction in Maps” (2016)
Part 4: “The Third and Last Partition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; administrative boundaries of Lithuanian lands, 1795 to 1918 (2017)
Part 5: “The Role of Ethnic Maps and their Makers in Determining Lithuania’s Post-WWI Borders” (2019)
Part 6: “Post-Versailles, Mapmakers Struggle to Depict Lithuania” (2019)
Other articles:
“Litva-Vilna Guberniya Post Office Locations Compared: 1801-12, 1820, 1829” (2021)
“How Doctored Ethnic Maps Helped Determine the Eastern Boundaries of Post-WWI Lithuania and Poland” – The Portolan – Journal of the Washington Map Society (2023)
My published autobiography (2010)
Pages 75 – 79 of issue 238 of the Journal of the Lithuania Philatelic Society
My published articles about stamps from the historic Lithuanian area:
- ” ‘Ob-Ost’ Civilian Post Offices and Their Cancellations: Making Sense of a Philatelic Stepchild“ (2013) My research got the American Philatelic Society to change their decades-old categorization of these WWI German- occupied Baltic-area stamps.
- “Revenue Stamps of Memel / Klaipėda: 1920 – 1925” (2015) Chapter 11, and pages 181 – 205, of “Part I, Memel / Klaipėda Handbook,” by John Neefus, PhD, Audrius Barazdeikis, Editor.
Bulletin of the Lithuanian Philatelic Society of New York:
#159 March 1991. “Interviews with Charles Matuzas” (Bulletin # 156, June 1990, announced Andrew Kapochunas member #509 of the LPSNY.)
- “Kaunas Colored Issue, 1920-21,” and “More Questions”
- “Postage stamps of the Independent Republic of Lithuania, Part II”
- “Official Stamped Postal Stationery of Independent Republic of Lithuania, Part II”
- “A New Issues Price Comparison, November 1991”
#161 September 1991 (A. Kapochunas is now on the masthead as “New Issues Editor”). “Postage Stamps of the Independent Republic of Lithuania, Part III”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part V”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part VIII”
#168 June 1993 – June 1994. “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part IX”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part VII”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part X”
- “Soviet Postal Stationery Overprinted by Pašto Ženklas, Part I”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part XI”
#171 March 1995. “Soviet Postal Stationery Overprinted by Pašto Ženklas, Part II”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part XII”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part IX”
- “Lithuanian Town Cancellations of July 1, 1919 – 1941: Updating a Reverse List”
- “Checklist of Lithuanian Town Cancellations: July 1, 1919 – August 21, 1940”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part XIII”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part X”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part XIV”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part XI”
Joint Bulletin: L.P.S. of New York and Toronto L.P.S.:
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part XV”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part XII”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part XVI”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part XIII”
- “Commemorative, Special and First Day Cancellations of the Re-Established Republic of Lithuania, Part XIV”
- “New Postage Stamps of Lithuania, Part XVII”
