Used Lithuanian Local Post: Is This Particularly Valuable?

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From another post on this forum, I learned that this stamp was only in use for a few months in Lithuania at the end of World War I. Less than 37,000 were printed. That might make used examples in decent condition, such as this one, somewhat valuable. Or, more probably, not.

Assuming it is genuine, valuable or not, it will remain interesting being tied on piece.

Very faded and they are actually pretty readily available. They are often collected in each position on the sheet, and there were two different printings.

37,000 of a popular Countries stamp MIGHT get you to more value (think C13-15 Zepp's or Canada dollar value jubilees) but 37,000 of a deep back-of-book Lithuanian item which is the opposite aesthetic of the stamps mentioned earlier in this sentence might be an oversupply.

Antanas Jankauskas' Special Lithuanian Postage Stamp Catalogue 2012 edition puts the price at €8.0 unused and €3.50 used for the first printing and €10.0 unused, €3.0 used for the second. His quantities are 14,400 for the first printing and 22,224 for the second. The sheets are 8x6 with eight cliches repeated on each row, there are differences between the cliches on the first printing and the second. He doesn't mention forgeries and does show plating characteristics for each cliche in both printings. Based on the number I have seen offered over the last couple of years, there either are very good forgeries or almost all of them were CTO and into the collector market.