Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp

Type III emerald green

Description

• Issue Date: 1 December 1880
• Print Process: Letterpress
• Perforations: none
• Watermark: ZEITUNGS-MARKEN (some of the 200 stamps per page)
• Print Run : 131 100 000
• Nominal value : ½ Kreuzer
• Catalogue Michel № 43 Type III & 43 Type IIIa

See also Austria-Empire 1876 Newspaper and Austria-Empire 1867 Newspaper.

Officially, these stamps were called „newspaper delivery stamps” because they served to cover the delivery fee for newspapers that were sent at reduced newspaper postage. This fee was ½ Kreuzer and had to be paid for newspapers that were posted in the same postal district in which the addressee lived (there was no transport fee for such newspapers, but the delivery fee was to be paid). The paper used for printing was subject to the same changes as that of the 1867 newspaper stamp issue, but of course the thick, rough-surfaced paper originally used there no longer occurs. The sheet watermark „ZEITUNGS-MARKEN” also ran horizontally in the middle over two sheets of 100 pieces each and |was also changed from 1884 onwards. The gum fully corresponded to that occurring in the simultaneous editions of the newspaper stamp issues in 1867. For |the production of the Urstöckel, such a No. 42 in Type III was used and redesigned by engraving the value.

Type III + IIIa grey-green

Type III

Unused

Imperforated
blue green 1880/84,1893	yellow-green 1885/94	olive green 1893/94	emerald green 1889,1895/99	grey-green 1897
	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp gelbgrün-a-if.jpg
Privatele perforated stamp
File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp blaugrün-gf.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp gelbgrün-gf.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp olivgrün-gf.jpg		File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp graugrün-gf.jpg

Used

Imperforated
blue green 1880/84,1893	yellow-green 1885/94	olive green 1893/94	emerald green 1889,1895/99	grey-green 1897
Privatele perforated stamp

Type IIIa

Unused

Imperforated
blue green 1880/84,1893	yellow-green 1885/94	olive green 1893/94	emerald green 1889,1895/99	grey-green 1897
File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp blaugrün-aif.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp gelbgrün-aif.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp olivgrün-aif.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp smaragdgrün-aif.jpg
Privatele perforated stamp
File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp blaugrün-agf.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp gelbgrün-agf.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp olivgrün-agf.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp smaragdgrün-agf.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp graugrün-agf.jpg

Used

Imperforated
blue green 1880/84,1893	yellow-green 1885/94	olive green 1893/94	emerald green 1889,1895/99	grey-green 1897
Privatele perforated stamp
File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp blaugrün-agfu.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp gelbgrün-agfu.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp olivgrün-agfu.jpg	File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp smaragdgrün-agfu.jpg

Proofs

Sheet proof on yellow paper

Single print with SPECIMEN hand stamp

Peculiarities of separation

private punctured stamp ?.9.1898

private punctured stamp 2.2.1898

privatele perforated stamp

private punctured stamp 17.12.1894 WIEN 17/1

Arch parts and complete arches

½kr 10×10=100 emerald green

½kr 10×5=100 yellow-green 1 WIEN 1/1 5.2.1892 POSTZEITUNGSAMT II

Special frankings

File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp ?.jpg

File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp ?.jpg

Cancellations

Special cancellations

Last day 31.12.1899 KARLSBAD

blue stamp 5.12.1897 WIEN 1/1

File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp -rot.jpg red stamp of Prague

File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp -violett.jpg violet stamp

Cancellations of Hungary or Posnia-Herzegovina on the newspaper delivery stamp have not become known up to now.

Beautiful cancellations

27.9.1891 ZEITUNGS-EXPED. WIEN

d 18.1.1897 PRAG - PRAHA

16.3.1898 TRIEST - TRIESTE

d 16.11.1898 PRAG 1 - PRAHA

17.11.1899 WIEN 10/1

21.9.1894 WIEN 9/1

29.9.1894 WIEN 3/3

8.1.1897 BADEN 1 N.Ö.

10×½ kr. blue green 5.11.1898 SÜDBAHNHOF WIEN; From about 1890 it is used in units and multiple frankings on newspaper covers, also as a normal newspaper stamp.

Newspaper address sheet

Imperforated 29.9.1894 WIEN 3/3

File:Austria-Empire 1880 Delivery Postage Stamp Zeitungsschleife- -gezähnt.jpg Privatele perforated stamp

blue stamp 5.12.1897 WIEN 1/1

Imperforated 1.12.1899 BADEN 1 N.Ö.

Privatele perforated stamp a 29.??.1899 PRAG 1 - PRAGA 1

8×½kr. 22.10.18?? ZEITUNGS-EXPED. WIEN

References

• AUSTRIA 1867 - 1918 handbook and special catalog VOLUME II Dr. Ulrich Ferchenbauer 2008
• Michel catalog AUSTRIA SPECIAL 2017