This is a philatelic cover with a postmark cancelled in 1991 commemorating the bicentennial of the recognition of Šiauliai's city right in 1791. The Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Stanislovas Augustas Poniatovskis (known as Stanisław August Poniatowski in Polish) has reconfirmed Šiauliai's city right originally given in 1589 and granted a coat of arms shown in the postmark. It depicts the bear of Žemaitija (Samogitia in English, the region which Šiauliai is the capital), Eye of the Providence and the bull which is also the coat of arms of the House of Poniatovskis/Poniatowski.
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