This is an official letter posted on 28 August 1891 from Königsaal in Bohemia to Prag.
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The trial of Registration Labels was evidently successful, as 1½ years later a second Verordnungsblatt dated 21st September 1886 announced the introduction of Registration Labels to all 190 State (ärarischen) Post Offices of the Austrian Empire from 1st October 1886. Although the ordinance says "in the identical manner", the appearance was changed considerably: different typefaces and a thinner, harder and translucent paper, corresponding to the simultaneous revenue stamp issues. The fragile paper is also the reason why flawless Registration Labels are rather rare.
The 'nichtärarischen' (ie postmaster operated) offices continued to use Registration cancellers. On 1st September 1889, Registration Labels were introduced also to these post offices, but to preserve a distinction were imperforate. In the course of the gradual change of the postmaster offices into state post offices, the imperforate Registration Labels were replaced; however the initial distribution was frequently so extensive that some small post offices were still using the very first Registration Labels in First Republic times.
This is an official letter posted on 28 August 1891 from Königsaal in Bohemia to Prag.
This label has a spelling error: the town name has only one 's' (as on the cancel). Herr Hermann Sanbach, a member of 1.österr.Rekozettel Sammlerverein Wien, has kindly sent me illustrations of four different correct labels:
This imperforate label is from Karapcziu in Bukowina to Braunschweig, posted in April 1897.
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