Austria: Classic Stamps 1850-1940

Austria Classic
Showing 8 Steiner Pages 
Scott # 1 missing
Thanks to karelm and stainlessb for the help !
Edit: on page 2, 10kr blue "coarse printing" has been replaced by a 10kr blue fine printing (Scott # 37) Note 10kr blue Scott #30 - exists in deep blue #30c and added to page.

I've been a bit low key lately when it comes to my stamping activities, but while sorting and organizing (something I seem to be forever doing) this caught my eye, not because these are uncommon stamps, but the use of a cut in half stamp on cover (in this case a cut square from what appears to be a post card. It looks like both stamps have cut edges, but the 2 Porto is sightly atop the 4 Porto.


that's my bit of excitement for today!

Finally found a Austria # 1, which completes my first page (already shown)
Sold by APS-store

I'm cross-eyed from trying to measure perfs. In the same Schaubek album containing the Baltic state's occupation stamps that I presented yesterday (the "Vilnius" overprint series, etc.), my dad had 11 pages of Austria issues that began with the 1850 issues. Each row of stamps had a value in pencil written in the margin, providing me with some idea of relative values (in 1957), and stamps appeared to be organized chronologically by issue date. But as in most of his philatelic materials, there were no catalogue numbers. I've spent the last several hours learning about similarities and differences of the 1867-72 "coarse printing" and the 1874-1880 "fine printing" medallion issues. Some of the images in this thread were informative and very helpful. The 2nd and 3rd of my dad's Austria pages are below, with my perf annotations, and below that are closeups of the three blue 10kr "medallion" stamps from the mostly empty 2nd page. I have classified the first stamp, from the top right corner of the page, as Sc. #30 ("coarse") and the next two as Sc. #37 ("fine"). But assuming that the prices my dad has in the margin are for individual stamps, why the big difference in value between the two #37s? Have I misclassified the stamps? Am I missing something important?

A comparison of three of the 1867-72 and 1874-80 5kr rose "medallion" issues that I found loose in my dad's Schaubek album. All are perf 9 1/2. The two on the left show the "coarse" hair and beard of the 1867-72 issues, whereas the rightmost stamp features the "fine" printing of the 1874-1880 issues. The leftmost stamp is Scott #29 Type II, printed in 1872, with two downward points on the tiny ornament in the lower left corner and no part of that ornament touching the main arabesque in that corner. The central stamp does not appear to be Type II, based on the bottom left corner criteria, but its general "heavy ink" appearance and the cancellation mark make typing difficult for me. The "small ornament with points" seems almost to be entirely missing.  The topmost portion of that lower left arabesque is separated from the body in the central stamp, but connected in the leftmost stamp.  Perhaps that is another indicator differentiating Type I and Type II stamps.

1916 Mich 218- seems like an awful lot of unprinted/selvedge?

and the color looks a bit different (more black-blue than black-green) , although Michel doesn't indicate any color variants- below is what seems to match the catalogue description - schwärzgrun (black-green). I have 4 individual stamps that are this color