Type V - Date-time cancel with "WIEN"

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Type V - Date-time cancel with "WIEN"

In the year 1889 a new type was issued to several offices which lay in the inner part of the city. It is the same as type IV except that WIEN appears, seriffed, at the top instead of an ornament.

Type Text Comments K/S ON
V-02WIEN STEFANIESTRASSE K7797a34
V-04WIEN WESTBAHNHOF K7823a101
V-06WIEN PRODUKTENBÖRSETaborstraßeK7798b36
V-08WIEN FRUCHT- U MEHLBÖRSESee note 1 36
V-10WIEN NEUMANNGASSE(as illustrated below)K7803c50
V-12WIEN DÖBLINGSee note 2K7828a117
V-14WIEN NEUBAU II K7810c62
V-16WIEN TELEGR. CENTRALE K7787cZ
V-18WIEN TELEGRAFEN-CENTRALE K7787dZ
V-20WIEN FAVORITENSee note 3K7817a74

Notes:

  1. For more about the WIEN FRUCHT- U MEHLBÖRSE see here!
  2. According to Hajek, service began in 1903; Klein says "open 1889?; limited service only till 1903"
  3. According to Hajek, service began in 1895; listed in Klein 3rd supplement as opening 29.12.1895

Posted 26 Dec 1890 from Kärntnerring to Neumangasse; reposted to Magdalenenstrasse: office 5, as required by the big blue '5'. Neumangasse is the office before it in the circuit. Mixed type III & type V cancels.

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