P2 handstamp but without date, counter letter, or despatch indication. [Kü-13a-H244b]. Our code P2(b)o. This example was used on 21.7.1983.
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A further change was made in the mid-1980s to a less distinctive style more in line with the basic P2 circle in general use at all Post Offices. The single circle contains the names of the Post Town and the Poststelle as two arcs at the top, the latter prefixed with 'PSt', the date usually with no hour [hence classified as P2(e)] across the centre, and the postcode of the Post Town at the base. [Kü-13] if rubber and no date; [Kü-14] if steel with date. Some variations of this type occur, though rarely, eg putting the Poststelle name first, or no date, or in the case of a Two-Triangle-Town squeezing in the triangles as usual at the sides of the Postcode.
P2 handstamp but without date, counter letter, or despatch indication. [Kü-13a-H244b]. Our code P2(b)o. This example was used on 21.7.1983.
Conventional P2 handstamp with neither counter letter nor despatch indication. [Kü-14a-980c]. Our code P2(be).
Conventional P2 handstamp with counter letter but no despatch indication. Our code P2(e). [Kü-14b-D490a]. This example was used on 11.12.1989.
Unusual arrangement within P2 handstamp, with both counter letter and despatch indication. Our code P2. This is a shop/petrol station in Laaerbergstrasse in Wien 10, and the illustration shows a 'first day of use' cancel.
Roller P2 handstamp with neither counter letter nor despatch indication. Our code RP2(be)+T. [Kü-14c-457i]. This example was used in 4.7.1989.
The Austrian Post Office produced a listing of Posthilfsstellen in 1981, which is here. Note that many offices will have been closed, upgraded, or possibly opened since then!
Other postal markings can be found from Posthilfsstellen. The example on the left was used on a cancelled-to-order postcard at Allerheiligen, Post Perg, in Jan 1961. It measures 22 by 12 mm, and is probably the canceller used for putting the office name on documents! The one below was found on the back of an envelope which had a normal KE-type cancel dated 2.1.61 on the front.
Cachets such as the following can be found from almost every hotel, restaurant and mountain hut. Almost always, they have no postal function, and serve only to advertise the place of sale. The Moserboden hotel used to be in the Kaprun valley, where the dams are; the card is dated 1900 and the stamp cancelled KESSELFALL-ALPENHAUS. The Valluga-Bahn is at St Anton; the card is dated 1957.
And as a postscript both to the Austrian Empire and to this article, the cancel shown above is from the Sudetenland area of today's Czech Republic, and was used on 4 August 1928. It is on a postcard, with the stamp cancelled at Karlova Studanka / Karlsbrünn in Schlesien.
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