Cancel Of Riga / Lettonia - Details?

Hello all,
I just got this loose stamp and am wondering, what the cancel is saying.
I read RIGA-LIDPAS??? ; the complete word probably ist LIDPASTS. But does it just mean airmail or airfield of possibly both?
Thank you for any comments.
Heinrich

Probably have better luck if you posted it in the right section, this is classic United States section. There is a section for classic worldwide where the ones that know frequent more than this section.

Thank you stallzer - I kicked myself into my back and then reposted in the correct section.
Heinrich

(Copied from your other thread here)

Hi Heinz,

This has been an interesting puzzle. I'm pretty sure now it means "airmail", not "airport".

I was surprised you were suggesting LIDPASTS with such confidence until I found quite a number of RIGA-LIDPASTS postmarks on the internet from the 1930s.

Surprisingly, online translation for Lidpasts hasn't been as easy as I expected but there were lots of hints suggesting it meant Airmail in Google.

In particular, I saw a cover with a simple two-line PAR AVION / LIDPASTS etiquette.

Finally I found "Lidpasts" translated into a Japanese word meaning airmail.:)

I hope this helps.

As Native Latvian speaker I can tell you that translating it directly Lidpasts would be "Flying Mail" in other words "Air Mail".

If stamp would have another town not Riga, for example "Liepaja Lidpasts" would be more desirable stamp, but considering that Country has been thru Russian occupation from 1939- 1941 then German occupation 1941 - 1945 and then Russian occupation from 1945 - 1991 this stamp has seen a lot :) In Riga this stamp would be worth next to nothing. More desirable ones are original first stamps which are printed on a original ww1 German military maps due to the paper shortage.








Or for example Latvian 1930s airmail stamps are very desirable


Sad story is I do not collect Latvian stamps, I am into American ones