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It is addictive KGB, get on it! I started collecting postmarks of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a few years ago. I also like drawing maps, though the Arad map is a modified cut-and-paste from Wikipedia.
I am currently drawing a map of the whole empire in AutoCAD, which allows me to superimpose the current boundaries over the old Empire Boundaries. I then can use bits and pieces for my album pages. |
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 This one was tough for me because I did not look closely, and thought the cancel said Ap oz, when in fact is is Ap cz. Now it is spelt Apc, and there is not much information on the internet that I could find. Anyway, is is a small town north-east of Budapest, in Heves county.  |
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Hungarian postmarks (former Hungarian kingdom), Franz Joseph young and old, without crown-crowned, austrian stamp-hungarian stamp, from Slovakia - Varanno - Vranov nad Topl`ou (north) - from Serbia-Istvanvölgy-Hajducica (south).... it`s complicated, that`s why I love it.  |
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Nice cancels Wadmalatz. What I like about the Austro-Hungarian postmarks is that the cancels are usually small enough and the letters big enough so that it is usually easy to identify the towns on loose stamps. |
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Besztercze in Besztercze-Nazod County, now Beszterce in Transylvania, Romania Here are two nice cancels.   |
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Also-Nyarasd, which is now Topolniky in Slovakia. "Also" is Hungarian for "Lower". I am not sure if there is an Upper Nyarasd. Nyarasd actualy means "poplar", as in the tree.  |
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Cut and paste with foreign accents does not work well in this forum. Waldmalatz means Felso Nyarasad is now Horne Toplniky. Felso is upper in Czech. I removed the accents on the "o" and "L". So there IS an Upper and Lower Toplniky.  |
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