Austria in transition: 1918 - 1921

Salzburg Plebiscite, 29 May 1921.

On 29 May 1921, a Plebiscite was held in Salzburg (the Land, not just the city), the question of course being "should we seek Anschluss with Germany?".
Of the 126,482 electorate, over 98,000 (77.5%) voted in the Plebiscite, of which 877 were against.

Official postcard with message written in Salzburg on 29/5/21 regarding the events of the day, but posted in Linz on 2.VI.21 to the USA. It says Dear Clinton, One of the ways of propaganda for the Union with Germany. I happened to strike Salzburg on the Abstimmung weekend, where the town was gay with bands from 5 a.m. on, where banners were flying, orators speaking, torch light processions, singing "Die Wacht am Rhein" etc. etc. The Salzburg Bull the emblem of the province has battered down the boundary posts and is now proclaiming the last frontier for former parts of Bavaria.

Three stamps overprinted for the Plebiscite on May 29 1921 with a four-line typo overprint hand-set in Innsbruck. Both the white-paper and the grey-paper printings were overprinted. These stamps were sold in Innsbruck and Salzburg at face value plus a donation. Used here on the official postcard picturing a bull, the Salzburg symbol, of which 5,000 were printed.

Propaganda labels abounded!

A set of three genuine stamps on a cover "posthumously decorated" with an express label.

First overprinting of stamps for the Plebiscite.

A complete set of the overprinted stamps, doubtless CTO.