Austria Commems complete sets, 100 Different Stamps

Get 100 Different Used Stamps
From Austria's Rich Commemorative Tradition

Austria has been one of the world's great stamp-issuing nations since 1850, and its commemorative program ranks among the most varied and culturally rich in all of philately. Composers, explorers, industrialists, regional history, religious milestones, Alpine landscapes, railways, river steamers — Austria stamps its identity onto every issue, and a collection of 100 different used commemoratives gives you a remarkable cross-section of a country with more history per square mile than almost anywhere on earth.

All stamps in this packet come as complete sets — so you get each issue as it was meant to be collected.

Selections will vary, but here are some of the stamps you may find in your packet:

• Gustav Mahler, 1860–1911 (1.50s) — One of the towering figures of European music, Mahler served as director of the Vienna Court Opera and led orchestras across Europe and America before his death at 50. His nine completed symphonies, sprawling and emotionally overwhelming, bridge the late Romantic tradition and the birth of modern music. Austria has honored him on stamps more than once, and this portrait issue is a collector favorite.
• 250th Birthday of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (3.50s) — Albrechtsberger is depicted at the organ, his instrument and his calling. The 18th-century composer and theorist served as Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, wrote more than 750 compositions, and counted Ludwig van Beethoven among his students. Joseph Haydn considered him the finest music teacher in Vienna. His "Treatise on Composition," published in 1790, was translated into multiple languages and used for decades.
• Tirol 1809–1959 (1.50s) — The Tyrolean eagle blazes in red on this issue marking the 150th anniversary of the Tyrolean Uprising, when the people of Tyrol — led by innkeeper and folk hero Andreas Hofer — rose against Napoleonic occupation. It was one of the most remarkable popular resistances of the Napoleonic era, and Hofer remains one of the best-loved figures in Austrian history. The eagle, still the symbol of Tyrol today, says everything.
• 100 Jahre Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurter Eisenbahn (2.50s) — A handsome steam locomotive commemorates the centenary of one of Austria's historic railway lines, its arms of the cities it served framing the engine. Railway stamps are among the most popular topical subjects in the world, and Austria has produced outstanding examples across generations of issues.
• Johann Böhm, 100. Geburtstag (4.50s) — Issued in 1986 for the 100th birthday of Johann Böhm (1886–1959), founder and first president of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB). This red-and-black portrait stamp commemorates one of the key figures in rebuilding Austria's labor movement after World War II — a piece of 20th-century social history on a single stamp.
• Postleitzahlen! — Introduction of Postal Codes (1.50s) — A cheerful yellow stamp showing a map of Austria marked with its new postal district zones — issued when Austria introduced its national postal code system. It's a charming piece of postal history.
• 1000 Jahre Böheimkirchen (4.50s) — A medieval church framed by a town coat of arms, marking the 1,000th anniversary of the Lower Austrian market town. Austrian municipal millennium stamps are a wonderful collecting subject in their own right — each one a window into a community with roots stretching back to the early Middle Ages.

Beyond these highlights, you'll find more outstanding material from Austria's decades of commemorative issues: Alpine landscapes, equestrian sports, religious and cultural congresses, regional exhibitions, lake shipping, and more portraits of the composers, scientists, and statesmen who shaped one of Europe's most influential nations. Austria is a perennial favorite— get complete sets to fill your album now..