Ebay helped me acquire this part set (higher values in Shillings) for £24.00 (October 26) plus £4.99 for the 10S version need to get the groschen values next.
10S on 28 August 1926 would have been a lot of money 10 Schilling would be equivalent to about 48,73 EUR today or 40.80 pounds.
The link below helped me convert the value equivalent.

https://finanzbildung.oenb.at/docroot/wa...rechner/#/

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I have accumulated a large number of B & H issues over the past few years and really need to sort them out. Can anyone recommend essential or important catalogues and literature that could be of help?

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Any information on above stamp.

Brought from EBAY only £1.50 

The Proclamation of the Republic of Austria stamp issued in 1945 is a significant piece of postal history, marking Austria's return to independence after World War II. This stamp was part of the provisional issues during the Allied occupation and is often sought after by collectors. perhaps.

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After contacting  a senior member of the society I found that it was from 1946 and was part of a set:
ST. STEPHEN'S CATHEDRAL RECONSTRUCTION, 12 DECEMBER 1946. 
Funny how being out of the set, I failed to recognise it. I knew I had seen it before some where!

Hope this old map of 1931 Railway Routes in Austria may be of interest.

Please note the route between Salzburg and Bad Ischl no longer exists and I am sure there are others
The Salzkammergut Local Railway (SKGLB)  (760 mm gauge) and ran between Ischl and Salzburg from 1894 The last passenger train ran on 30 September 1957, and the last freight train on 10 October1957.
In November 2017, the last of locomotives and wagon were preserved and put on display at the train station at Bad Ischl.

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Hi Everybody,
A Question, or brain teaser,
What was the first Austrian Stamp to show the Euro currency?

Answer inverted below:-

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Hi Everybody (Note first post on forum)

While at the 2026 York Stamp show in the UK on 17th July 2026, I stumbled across this letter envelope.
   
Would this be considered a type of first day cover due to the postmark ?

Adolf Hitler's 49th Birthday 1938 stamp Third Reich Germany

Below an except form an American newspaper The NEW York Times;-
LINK https://www.nytimes.com/1938/04/20/archi...-with.html

BERLIN, April 19.-"Great Germany," which puts its new name in the same proud juxtaposition with Great Britain as Rome does its imperial title with the British Empire, has been mobilized to celebrate tomorrow the forty-ninth birthday of its creator, Adolf Hitler, with greater pomp and ceremony than ever marked the birthday celebration of either a German or an Austrian emperor.

The climax will be a parade before Hitler of some 9,500 men selected from thirty different army units representing all branches of both the German and the former Austrian armed forces down the famed Unter den Linden tomorrow noon. Included in the Austrian representation is, notably, the first battalion of the Fourteenth Infantry regiment of Linz, whose commander Major Ruckser, and other officers and men in the regiment were leaders in the secret "National Socialist Soldiers' Ring," which worked for the Anschluss in the Austrian army long before the Anschluss occurred.

On reading the above paragraph I was surprised by the support of parts of the Austrian Army in the Anschluss , I knew that the invasion went unopposed.

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Hi Everybody,

My name is Roy Burton I have been a member of APS since about 10/2025.
Still working for a living and so time is limited for hobbies.
Live in Cumbria in the UK, have collected stamps since childhood, but have only just started with Austrian stamps and first day covers.

Had a boyhood collection and went back to stamps collecting during Lockdown. Main collections are Romania (as father from Transylvania), Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and German Empire.
Currently Treasurer and Membership Secretary of APS and also member of various other groups as well as being President of the Harrogate Philatelic Society. Would tend to call myself a collector rather than a philatelist.
In my working life I was an accountant primarily in manufacturing (Printing) and then self-employed as a Cost Consultant

Hi ,

Can anyone offer me a lift from North Yorkshire to the APS weekend in Peterborough on 3 October, returning on 5th. I'm happy to contribute sparkling conversation and a contribution to the petrol cost.

Keith

Keith