Tchilingirian, Stephen - Austrian Post Offices Abroad
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Title: Austrian Post Offices Abroad, part I-VII+VIII
Author:S.D. Tchilinghirian & W.S.E. Stephen (+ Keith Tranmer)
Published:by the Austrian Stamp Club of Great Britain:
  • part I: 1962 (Revised Edition by Keith Tranmer 1981, 100 pages);
  • part II (pages 81-160): 1962;
  • part III (pages 161-240): 1963;
  • part IV (pages 241-320) & V (pages 321-400): 1964;
  • part VI (pages 401-480): 1966;
  • part VII (pages 481-560): 1967
  • part VIII (edited by Keith Tranmer): 1976, 112 pages.

    • Part I (Austrian Lloyd: Adriatic Lines, Mediterranean Lines) provide informations about the following Lloyd Lines:

  • Constantinople - Galatz line; Galatz - Brăila shuttle line (during the 1850s);
  • Trieste - Constantinople - Galatz Express line (after 1870).

    Part II (Austrian Lloyd: Black Sea Lines, All Lines, 1888-1914) provide informations on the history and postmarks of the Constantinople - Varna - Kustendje Line (pages 85-87).

    Part III (DDSG and other Austrian Navigation Companies) covers on pages 164-207 the D.D.S.G. (Danube Steam Navigation Company) in all the details: history, list of DDSG ships, list of DDSG lines, postal history, the stamps of DDSG, reprints, forgeries, non-postal adhesives, cancellations, check-list of DDSG ships. A must work for the DDSG collector !!

    Part IV (Constantinople, Ionian Island, Albania & Epirus);

    Part V (Greece, Crete, Aegean Island, Macedonia);

    Part VI (Bosnia, Serbia, Danubian Principalities): Review from "Romanian Philatelic Studies", Vol.2, No.4, 1978, page.7:

    "The Romanian section has 56 pages (pages 425-468) and describes the Austrian military posts, consular post offices, the postal agencies of the DDSG, of the Austrian Lloyd, the "Starostie" agencies and their markings. It illustrates 228 different postmarks and several covers bearing Austrian markings used in Moldavia and Walachia. It gives detailed information for more than 40 towns, their Austrian post offices, dates and periods of their operation, types and colors of their postal markings, etc. For example, for Bucharest it presents 16 different markings, including two forgeries. It is a very useful book and it is a must for the researcher of early Romanian postal history. "
    Here is the list of the towns: Alt-Orsova, Bacau, Berlad, Bottushan, Braila (Consular P.O, DDSG Agency & Lloyd Agency), Bucharest (Consular P.O. & DDSG Agency), Buzeu, Calafat, Campina, Corabia, Craiova, Focsani, Folticeni, Galatz (Consular P.O., DDSG Agency & Lloyd Agency), Giurgevo (Consular P.O. & DDSG Agency), Gura Jalomitza, Guravoja, Ismail (Consular P.O. & DDSG Agency), Jassy, Kalaras, Oltenitza, Piatra, Piquet, Pitesti, Ploesti, Rimnik, Roman, Slatina, Stirbey, Tecuciu, Turnu Magurelle, Turnu Severin (Consular P.O. & DDSG Agency), Vaslui, Zimnitza.

    Part VII (Russia, Dobrudja, Bulgaria, Roumelia, Thrace, The Anatolian Black Sea Ports): structured in the same way as the previous part, but this time featured are the Dobroudjan towns, at that time included in the Ottoman Empire (pages 484-497): Czernavoda, Hirsova, Kustendje (Consular P.O. & DDSG Agency), Ostrov, Sulina (Consular P.O. & DDSG Agency), Tulcea (Consular P.O. & DDSG Agency).

    Part VIII (Austrian Lloyd, Liechtenstein, Cyprus, Egypt, Palestine, Syria-Lebanon, Asia Minor).

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