125 Years of Registration Labels

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Contents:

  1. Introduction of Registration Labels in Vienna in 1885
  2. Extension of Registration Labels to all State Post Offices of the Austrian Empire
  3. Dual-language labels from the Empire
  4. Vienna after 1892
  5. A wide variety of other covers and labels can be found..
  6. First Republic
  7. The period 1939-45
  8. Emergency measures after WWII's end
  9. The first Austrian provisional issue of 1945
  10. The definitive issue of the 2nd Republic
  11. The Postcoded issue
  12. Barcodes and similar innovations
  13. Literature references

Most sections are split into subsections - this is to ensure each page is less than 100Kb for ease in downloading.

A table of Registered Post Rates can be found in the Anschluß section.

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©Andy Taylor. Last updated 25 Aug 2002