Austro-Hungarian (Austria-Hungary) Empire Postmarks

20 krajcar, all with wmk. First & last pmk still unidentified, 2 Siklós 1892 apr. 21, 3 Zsombolya (now Romania-Jimbolia)

And finally here`s an ensemble, with later issues-black numeral. Hungarian stamps, cancelled in actual Austria (Burgenland), Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia. All `krajcar` issues valid till 1900 sept 30. (than denomination changes -krajcár to fillér). So from 1874 to 1900, more than 25 years. These stamps can offer a lot of fun!!

Nice stamps Wadmalatz! Thanks for showing them. I really like those envelope types from Hungary.

Is there a similar change from XXX? to Heller? at the same time? Thanks.

Can I get a followup on a cancel format shown in my post of February 13 (page 4), that also appears in butterfly's post of yesterday (February 16, on page 5)? Mine appears to be Pilsen; butterfly's appears to be Prague. In both cases, the city is in the right side of the double ring, with a fleuron/star/blob at the top of the cancel. There is something to the left of center on both, and I could believe that they both end in "1". Any ideas of the significance?

Thanks.

followup OK, this just about exhausts my collection. It appears to me that larger cities may have had numbered postal zones. Here are remnants of a 2 for Prague, a clear 2 for some other city and a WIEN 63.

Bfranton, here`s Austria: till 1858 1 Gulden=60 Kreuzer (from this derives the Hungarian `krajcár`)
-1858-1900: 1 Gulden=100 Kreuzer
-1900-1925: 1 Krone= 100 Heller
-1925-1938.1945-2001- 1 Schilling=100 Groschen
-1938-1945 (`Anschluss`)-1 Reichsmark=100 Pfennig
-2001 Euro

Here is one postmarked Bozen Stadt , now Bolzano Italy

Ja, stimmt. Nice piece, `Nur zwei (=zwoa) Kreuzer kost..`-`It costs just 2 Kreuzer` and indeed, a 2 Kreuzer stamp on it. :)

Even though it is German, it's written in a Tirolean dialect.

Here are two Lombardi-Venetia stamps, one with a Milan cancel, the other with a Bassano cancel. Both are now in Italy.

They are not my stamps, the are on ebay, and the Milan is listed as a Type II, the Bassano Type III. Scott says Type II has a single thick line around the center of the arms, Type III a double line. Both seem like single lines to me. Do I have variety blindness or is the Type III miss-identified?


Type II


Type III

Great thread!

Bee See, they both look like single lines around the coat of arms to me.

Found a few more which I think fit the thread. Please let me know numbers, etc, if you can.
I was interested in the last couple of cancel colors... seemed a little different.

The second one is very nice. Ragusa is in Dalmatia, and is now part of Croatia, and is now called Dubrovnik.

The first one is Vienna, the capital of Austria.

good thread....i look through "foreign postcard" shoeboxes at shows and its easy to find postmarks from the Austria-Hungary empire for 25 and 50 cents !!