Austria: Perf & Color Varieties incl. Perf Tables (pre-1905)

blaamand, I have a 1997 Michel-Spezial for Austria - will be glad to make images of pages for you - one of the beauties of being retired. Also see my eBay #283001496114.

283001496114 pops up immediately for me, using the search-box at the top of most eBay pages. Here's the title: v277 | Five Older Austria Covers with interesting markings, inc. 1933 WIPA card. Don't use # in the search-box, just the 12 digits.

There's yet another way to do this. Again, if you're in the US, I'll just send you the catalog and you copy what you need. Keep it a month, I don't think I've looked in it for 2 or 3 years. Would cost you less than $3 to send it back Media Mail. The catch is that you can probably get a much newer copy via Library Loan.

1890

feebletodix - Very detailed tables, that's a lot of different perforations - and a lot of work preparing them. Very useful, thanks for sharing 

What is your source for these varieties - any catalog or your own findings?

I think I read somewhere that due to different humidity off the paper when these stamps were being perforated, the sheets later shrinked at various degrees, giving the impression that it was a multitude of different perforation pins being used, whilst in reality it was not that many different. I cannot remember the source of this info tough or if it is actually the case. Can anyone elaborate on this?

Looking at your latest table with about 50 different perforation varieties, it might seem useful to group them - example given 9.25 x 11.5  and 9.75 x 11.5 could potentially both been produced by pins at a 'nominal' 9.5 x 11.5, but appears slightly different (due to the shrinkage of paper issue as mentioned).

Keep up your good work!

@nl1947 - that's interesting!! Is that book from Pfalz/Richter only  a study of different perforations??
Starting to get a bit complicated - all those different perforation varieties across different paper types across different varnish stripes across different design ...this can be a life-time project in itself!

Did I say I also try to collect the different stamps of the Austrian Empire as 'forerunner collections', postmarked in each of the pre-desessor countries - Czekia, Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Croatia etc etc?? Now imagine someone trying to complete all the possible varieties for all the different forerunner collections....would need to be re-born 10 times to achieve that 

I think I need to avoid digging myself too deep into these possible varieties, or I will never re-emerge 

Isn't that the purpose of it all


feebletodix - great stuff (please keep it coming)


-k-

That's all folks, hope you find it of use. If anyone wants this data as an excel spreadsheet send me a message with your email.

😁👍 I bought one to. Thanks for the link.

Hi, hope it is not to late but I have only recently joined the forum and have done excel perf tables for the issues post 1890 and I'd like to compare mine with yours to see if I have missed something. My email is karel.michielsen@gmail.com

I am posting herer because I'm currently working on perforation varieties.

Michel 60 H (I am using Michel Spezial 1995)  11-1/2 color listed as "violett bis lila/scwarze" (violet to purple/black)  but no color vaiant...

I come across this this morning- seems quite a 'range" could one be a changeling?  Looking at my Michel color key, no real match (violett no lilaschwarz) both of these would fall somewhere within

you may be right. I have several other 50 Kreuzer stamps (different perforation) and they all lean toward the 'lilac" shade.  The 15 JKreuzer (same series) is a similar color. I'll have to watch for any other changelings as I go through these.