COVER N. 448 - AUSTRIA

Postmark: Sollenau Post Partner 2601 26.04.2024

Posted on the 26th April; received on the 3rd may 2024

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According to Wikipedia, Stamp Day, the brainchild of German philatelist Hans von Rudolphi was first celebrated in Austria in 1935.

Almost 90 years after that first celebration, I get a cover from Austria featuring one of the annual "Tag der Briefmarke" issues, which makes for a quite welcome addition to my collection. Danke Sehr, Manfred.

 The 202 TdB issue comprised the stamp and a se-tenant vignette which can be seen on the cover.

The 1,60+0.80 € stamp depicting a 1919 Postal Railway car  was issued on 24MAY2002 and hard as I tried I could not find any information as to who benefits from the additional charitable tax which is applied to all issues of the TdB. 

The vignette alongside the stamp comprises the reproduction of four postmarks, contemporary of the postal railway car in the stamp (the  more recent one, from Salzburg-Linz, dating from 1934).

The real postmark on the stamp indicates that the cover was dispatched from Sollenau, a city in Eastern Austria, just some 30 km from the Hungarian border.