Austria, 1822/1964, postal history collection, broad assembly of over 150 covers spanning the pre-stamp period through the mid-twentieth
Austria, 1822/1964, postal history collection, broad assembly of over 150 covers spanning the pre-stamp period through the mid-twentieth century, with notable strength in the 1880s–1890s and 1920s, including early stampless folded letters, Franz Josef issues, and a substantial range of postal stationery cards and covers showing varied frankings and cancellations through the end of the First World War, with technical highlights including a specialised group from the early 1920s inflation period bearing complex multiple frankings, eight covers from the Anschluss period (1938–1945), and several post-Second World War censored items with multiple frankings of the popular Costume definitives, further enhanced by a strong showing of postmark types, commercial corner-card mail, wrappers, and registered usages, generally fine-very fine throughout.
