AUSTRIA 1908 issue

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1908 60 years reign of Francis Joseph, various designs of the Habsburg dynasty

Values in 'HELLER'

  1 h grey
  2 h violet
  3 h lilac
  5 h green
  6 h brown
  10 h red (design as 5 h)
  12 h orange
  20 h brown
  25 h blue (design as 5 h)
  30 h green
  35 h grey

Larger sizes

  50 h olive (design as 72 h)
  60 h red
  72 h brown (1913)
  1 K violet (design as 72 h)

  2 K red and black
  5 K brown and violet
  10 K blue and brown (Franz Joseph, large size)

These stamps are perforated 12 1/2. Most of these stamps were printed on 'glazed' paper, but the values 1 to 35 h also exist on non-glazed paper.

I have seen 'reprints' of the 10 K value.

These stamps with values in 'PARA', 'PIASTER', 'CENTIMES' or 'FRANC' were issued in the Austrian post offices in Turkey and Crete.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Postal stationary:
I have seen a 3 h lilac cut in the design of the 5 h postage stamp (Emperor Franz Joseph).

Cut from a postal stationary; 3 h in the design of the 5 h stamps.

1908 Newspaper stamps, Mercury

  2 h blue
  6 h orange
  10 h red
  20 h brown

These stamps exist privately perforated, example:

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

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