Austria in transition: 1918 - 1921

Land Tirol, December 12, 1918 - January 20, 1919.

Efforts of nationalists to secede from Austria and join Germany led to the overprinting of the then current postage stamps with a Tirolean eagle in support of demands for a National Assembly. Stamps were overprinted in violet-black using a rubber hand-stamp. The issue was sold at face value. Postal use was forbidden after January 20, 1919.

Top part of a local-rate postal-stationery card, with the colours tweaked to show the overprint.

Stamps postally-used on a correctly franked registered letter to Vienna in December 1918

Registered letter from Innsbruck to Vienna, correctly franked. Stamps postally-used on a registered letter to Vienna in December 1918.