page_title: Valuation of cancellations of the Austrian Empire
section_title: The historical context
hierarchical_section_title: Valuation of cancellations of the Austrian Empire / The historical context
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Subdivisions de l'Empire d'Autriche 1816-1867
context_page_description: The study of postmarks is a specialized branch of philately called marcophily. It brings added value to the stamps by their historical significance. Other parameters are the rarity and the attractiveness. In particular, the stamps issued by the Habsburg monarchy during the 1850-1867 period, are collected for their variety and beauty. A first publication on this topic was made by Hans Kropf in 1899. Edwin Mueller in his Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850-1864, published in 1961, described all postmarks used in the Austrian empire, Lombardy, Venetia and in the Austria post-offices in the Ottoman empire. The relative valuation of those postmarks contains a popularity index, which is a multiplicative factor on top of the rarity.
  Closely related article is Postage stamps and postal history of Austria for a
  better understanding of the historical context.
context_section_description: The Austrian Empire stamps were first issued on June 1, 1850: a coat of arms under the text KK Post-Stempel. The word Austria does not appear, which is logical, as the issue served in whole central Europe, more precisely in all or in part of the current following countries:
  in the north the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland;
  in the East Ukraine, Romania;
  in the South Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Italy;
  Austria and Hungary.
  The languages used are German, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Serbo-Croat, Polish and French Chargé.
  This article is linked to the article Postage stamps and postal history of Austria. For a better understanding of the historical context, see the article Austria-Hungary.
caption: The Austria Empire is present in all central Europe
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