Asterisks aka stars on post-WWII Austrian airmails

Back to introduction I: Stars as auxiliary postal markings II: Air Mail Rates to the USA, 1951 to 1989
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III. Examples (and explanations)

The examples are presented in date order, with the destination. Click a thumbnail to pop-up a bigger image with some data: date of cancellation as year-month-day / required franking in groschen / actual ditto / weight in grams (as deduced) [/ other markings if any]; then on the next line the calculation of the rate. "K123" means Kainbacher Vol IV part 1 page 123. The examples have all been shrunk to the same width (800 pixels).


27 3 1958: Vienna!

10 May 1958: USA

11 Aug 1958: Vietnam

3 Oct 1958: USA

1959: USA

10 Nov 1959:
South Africa

22 Oct 1960: USA

6 June 1962: Canada

11 Aug 1962: Kenya

21 June 1963 Mexico

30 April 1963: USA

11 July 1963:
Great Britain

21 May 1965: USA

22 May 1966: Argentina

28 Sept 1966: USA

28 Oct 1966: Mexico

2 June 1972: USA

26 May 1967: Guatemala

26 June 1967: Mexico

15 Nov 1967: USA

24 Nov 1967: USA

2 June 1972: USA

26 Sept 1973: Canada

1974: Saudi Arabia

27 Nov 1979: USA

14 Jan 1982: USA

23 Mar 1982: Senegal

18 Dec 1989: USA
   


Back to introduction I: Stars as auxiliary postal markings II: Air Mail Rates to the USA, 1951 to 1989
Using Kainbacher
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