I have rubber stamped black, 2x green, 2 x blue and yellow FDC's. Lucky me
The answer i have got:
The Fdc with „machine (laser) red date special postmarks“ were only send to subscribers of the Austrian Post, all other FDc’s are with „hand stamped red date special postmark (rubber)“! All other FDC (except the ones to the subscribers) have the „hand stamped red date special postmark“ on it, hand stamped with a rubber postmark by the „Austrian Post“ for all other FDCs! That’s why „red date special postmark“ differs, but they are all official FDCs of the „Austrian Post“I think there were much more online sales than local, still.
Edit: maybe, ImperialHash could retrieve an info, how many FDCs were sold online approx?
I think around 5% of stamps sold as FDC's
And around 5% of these FDC's are hand stamped, maybe less.. just my thoughts
Edit: most or all of the "special" FDC's are hand stamped. Correct me if i am wrong
Conclusion, hold on to yours hand stamped FDC's lads
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I have full set of 5 color stamps that i want to sell: RED;YELLOW,BLUE,GREEN,BLACKOffers by dm. Cheers
This was a pioneer project for the Austrian Post and they didn't keep track of everything, unfortunately. Tried to get this info several times without success.
Most valueable FDCs are the variants. The laser engraved ones are also quite rare.