Award For The Most Circles? (Austria)

Or someone with more knowledge than me (which is almost everybody) but in this case khj. Thanks! I have seen a parcel card from canada but none from othe countries so did not think of that.

khj, I count 14 rings on the second stamp!

I'm looking forward to seeing what the complete cancel looked like, though I don't expect to see one soon. I've looked at a few auction sites where you can usually find interesting period covers but so far no luck.

If it was a cancel just used for parcels, that would explain it. After all, no one saves parcel 'covers.'

Like I said, I can't count. I only have 10 fingers, so once I go past... I guess I could use my toes?

Actually, I was only counting the full arcs. As I mentioned, in the past larger examples I'd seen, the arcs are on top and bottom, but there were short arcs at the corners. However, since you stamp has more arcs on one side, I have come to the conclusion that the examples I had previously seen (even though they showed complete arcs on top and bottom) were also incomplete/cropped. Which is why I noted that perhaps they are complete circles after all(?)

Nigelpedia is on another board right now. Maybe I can get him to chime in!

Another example from a page of Austria from an ebay seller in the UK item number 380301350713 as it is ending in an hour or so.
http://cgi.ebay.com/AUSTRIA-mini-co...em588bba1739

On the original image, it appears that the curvature of the lines is flattening out as you move away from the CDS. It sure looks like concentric circles or part circles.

Good point, rohumpy - it's one way you can tell that the pattern is one of larger and larger circles.

A small, one might say irrelevant, observation is that while jimjam informed us the distance between the lines is constant on the first one he showed, it is not on the other two. [Jimjam's second and Puzzlers].

They do look like circles I must say and it would be nice to see a full cancel.

Here are a few samples of the "concentric circle type" postmarks on parcel cards.
Unfortunately all my samples are torn fragments of cards.

Two of the cancels are from Vienna, one from Laibach (Ljubljana, Slovenia)and one from Billitz (in Vienna) or maybe Bielitz, Austria
I understand that these parcel cards were used for mailing parcels from one post office to another with the cards being used to notify the recipient that a package was available at the recipient's post office. Apparently the card was shipped along with the package and then part of it torn off at the destination post office. Does anyone know which part was torn off, and what then happened to the pieces? Also, many of them had postage due stamps on the reverse side, which was reserved for the destination cancel. Since they were mailed at a post office, surely the postage rates were well known in advance? Here is a sample, sent from Mariazell, Austria to Neuberg, Austria in April of l917

Here is a nice 1893 cancel...

They are not circular but if you search SCF for "19-bar" you will see some Canadian cancels with many lines.