Whats This On The Backside Of My Austrian Stamp

Is it an error that has been created in the making.
It seems as if that text and geometric figure is on the actual paper.
Or am I jumping my conclusion.
( While printing the stamp ). I havent seen this on my other stamps from austria.

Here are the two pictures on from the front and the other is the back of the stamp.

best regards mrmagic

It looks like it's from the envelop or card the stamp was stuck to. If I look closely, the letters on the upper row seem to spell 'Vom Absender...'. Based on that, my guess is that this is from the space on a card where it sometimes says something like 'sender fix stamp here'. But to be honest it's only a theory.

I would agree with Tinus. The text is reversed on your stamp. Probably transferred when it was soaked off the envelope/card

mrmagic,
Here's the same picture after it was manipulated (flipped horizontally). If there are any German native speakers here I'm sure they would be able to help now.

Nice work everybody. Espescially you seahorse.
i agree it is propably and most likely from an envelope.
What program did you use Seahorse. Photoshop ?

mrmagic,

IrfanView is the program I used. It is free and have most basic editing features in it. To download it you would only need to google it down.

Cheers,


Cheers

Well, German is not my native language, but I speak it better then average I guess.

I was right about 'Vom Absender'. That definitely means either 'from' or 'by sender', depending on the stucture of the rest of the sentence.

Can't really make out the middle line, looks like 'wünschter', which is probably part of the word 'gewünschter'. That means something like 'wanted' or 'desired'. Can't do anything with the Ba or Be that comes after that, simply not enough to make a word that would fit there.

The bottom line I think says 'derungsweg'. That's not a word as far as I know, so there's probably some letters that come before that.

That's the best I can do...

Did Austria use slogans with their cancels ? The printing appears to be part of the cancel ? Just a guess.

I find that a great many WWI-period Austrian stamps have this kind of printing on the reverse. There must have been something about the gums or glues used at this time that increased the chances of this happening. I can't say I've found it common with the stamps of any other country.