Austrian Stamp ID Please?

OK photo bucket is being fussy today maybe maintenance I'm not sure but anyway I have some what I believe to be Austrian stamps and I have no idea about what they are? Any idea? Thank you. I'll post a proper image when my image site gets back..grr lol



http://flic.kr/p/cGC8XS

Lets try these:
Sc#157 with bisect of 148 pr of 153
#158 #156
#146
(as shown on scan)
others are welcome to correct me

Wow thank you for the fast reply dlawson! I also didn't realize that they was upside-down! For that I apologize..lol

lucky I was wearing my eyeglasses upside down yesterday LOL

Note: Bumped thread Last Post 2012.

Absolutely stumped.

Spent a whole day Googling for this fellow.
Believe Austrian
Maybe section of a sheet.
Checked : Albania, North Epirus, Lubeck, Montenegro, Lombardy Venetia, and Bosnia Herzegovina.

Any help welcomed.

Exists: Perf approx 14-15, and Postmarked.

Rod, you may have a letter seal here. The apparent die-cut perforations and embossing lead me to this conclusion.

Aha! never considered that. Thanks Bob.
Would explain the Pmk evidence.

Your solution amplifies the reasoning, of the greater the opinion base, the greater the accuracy.

I recently saw a TV program, where a mathematician, asked a whole bunch of random people, to guess how much the Australian Monolith Uluru (Ayers Rock) weighed.
I thought this was ridiculous, but the result was quite amazing, they (the mean of the group) got rather close to the professionally estimated.

PS: Cannot be die-cut, the Postmark was 1800's. to me they look like they have been cut by a seamstress' "Pinking shears"


Cannot be those either....they were invented in 1931

Rod this might help. It appears to be a St Andrew's cross label
found on the 1858/59 Austrian issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._A..._(philately)

The crossed lines appear to be embossed, and they are narrow and pointed at the ends. They are not like anything I have ever seen on a stamp sheet's blank fields. Also, the "perforations" are distinctly pointed at the tips, as if they were all produced by a single cutting of each side, and definitely not torn/separated from a sheet.

I agree with you Bob that those pointed perfs look
odd but it looks very close to what is shown
in this snippet from the 2014/2015 Austria Netto Katalog



There are differences for instance the crossed lines are
not pointed in the catalog illustration and Rod's has
one white dot, catalogue has two.

Wow! Wow!
Gentlemen, thanks a huge bunch

I spent literally hours searching for these fellows, I thought I was just chasing a dream.
I OBVIOUSLY need a Netto catalogue.

My instinct was to bid on these fellows, I had no reference at all, it was just a gut feeling, I was going to limit my bid to $80
Common sense prevailed, and I let them go, they sold for $45

I am so delighted to have them identified, I thought impossible.

Very interesting, lithograving. Similarities, but also differences.

If Rod's stamp, or label is indeed perforated 14 horizontally, then it is much smaller than the items shown on the catalog page.

Thought bubble: Perhaps the "dots" indicate plate numbers.

Bob,
"my stamp" is an image lifted from a past Austria Auction lot, that sold for $1,200.
This item was just on a page of its own, no commentary, no ID.

I recognised some bidders in my auction, so I knew something was up, just could not ID prior to the auction time.

First time I have seen these in 12 years of collecting Austria. Ergo, still a "newbie"

Spots all over the place on these ones:

https://www.stampsofaustria.com/aus...-025642.htm?

For me, this a major attraction of stamps. There is always something to "open your eyes".

The ANK Österreich Spezialkatalog is
a good catalogue and very helpful if you have some
interest in Austrian stamps.
Not perfect by any means but then again most catalogues
have some errors and omissions.