Austria - Stamp Auctions
The Austrian Empire issued its first adhesive postage stamps on June 1, 1850. The stamps featured the Imperial arms and were issued in five denominations.
The complete sheets included 60 stamp impressions and four blank positions with St. Andrew's Cross printed on them. These four positions are very rare and bring high prices at stamp auctions.
Later issues featured a profile portrait of emperor Franz Josef I. In all 12 different issues were printed until the end of wwI.
At the end of the war the first "German Austria" stamps appeared in December 1918. Beginning in 1922, all issues of Austrian First Republic stamps were inscribed "Österreich".
In April 1938, the Republic of Austria was annexed by Germany, and became the state of Ostmark within Greater Germany. From that time, until the collapse of the Third Reich in early 1945, German stamps were used.
The Second Republic of Austria stamps officially appeared in November 1945, and were valid throughout the country and all the Allied Occupation zones. Austrian stamps and postal history items are very popular collecting areas as well as Austro-Hungary, Austrian offices in the Ottoman Empire.
 Lot 1893 - Austria 1948-52 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Regional Costumes set of 37, UM very fine. (37) Cat £425 (image available) {UM} [US3] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £136.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1948-52 |
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Lot 1895 - Austria 1948--52 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Provincial Costumes x 21 different mint values to 7s deep olive. A few are unmounted, a very fresh & fine group Cat £117 {MH} [US1] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £32.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1948--52 |
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Lot 1860 - Austria 1920s/30's - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93A small used range on 3 small cards, nor rarities but will make a very useful little starter collection (c50) {U} [US4] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £11.20) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1920s/30's |
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Lot 1851 - Austria 1908 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 9360th Anniv of Emporer's Accession - 2k green and red, mint, faint hinge trace. Short SW corner perf. Cat £35 {MH} [US1] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £12.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1908 |
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 Lot 1899 - Austria 1950 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Provincial Costumes - 1s Carmine (Tirol Pusteral) in horizontal pair, lightly MM (h/r across central perfs. Very scarce key value, light diagonal crease on one stamp.. Cat £320 (image available) {UM} [US1] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £88.80) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1950 |
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Lot 1853 - Austria 1908-37 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Small collection of 175 stamps on stockcards and identified by SG number. Mix of mint and (mainly) used with duplication, no complete sets. Some with faults. Cat £575 {CC} [US1] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £56.80) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1908-37 |
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Lot 1855 - Austria 1910 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 9380th birthday fine used values: 5h, 10h, 25h, 50h & 1kr (5) Cat £61 {U} [US2] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £17.60) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1910 |
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Lot 1854 - Austria 1908-68 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93valuable Mint or Used largely complete coln in Davo illustrated album, much of the value from between the Wars with 1918-19 Republic ovpt set M/FU, 1930 Anti-TB set M, 1933 & 1935 Winter Relief sets M, most of 1945 Graz ovpt set M (17 0f 19 vals), Post WWI almost complete incl 1948 Artists set M, 1949 Child Welfare set M, 1949 PoW set FU, 1951 Reconstruction set M, then continues to 1968 Frescoes M, also BotB with Newspaper stamps, Post Dues incl 1925 set FU & Airs, a fine coln neatly presented. (100s) HEAVY/OVERSIZE LOT - OVERSEAS SHIPPING SURCHARGE APPLIES. Cat £2800 {CC} [US5] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £390.40) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1908-68 |
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Lot 1900 - Austria 1950 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Provincial Costumes - 1s Carmine (Tirol Pusteral), UM. Very scarce key value, light diagonal crease. Cat £160 {UM} [US1] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £32.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1950 |
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 Lot 1894 - Austria 1948-52 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Costumes 1s claret, h/r, fresh m.m. Cat £160 (image available) {MH} [US6] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £21.60) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Austria 1948-52 |
