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Austria has twelve World Heritage sites, of which six are shown in the stamps here. World Heritage sites are nominated by member states, chosen by a designated committee and administered by UNESCO.

Semmering Railway

The Semmering railway was the first mountain railway in Europe that was built with a standard gauge tracks. It’s the world’s first true mountain railway because of the terrain and altitude. The first stamp on this album page shows part of the railway.

Salzburg Horse Pond

The Pferdeschwemme in Salzburg was a horse pond. It was used to bathe horses by walking them through a trough of water to cool them and to wash them. The structure includes a statue of a horse and murals of horses.

Aggstein Castle

Aggstein Castle is a castle on the banks of the Danube river, about a thousand feet above the river, in Wachau, Austria. It was built in the Twelfth Century. You can see how it looks in the third stamp on the top row of this album page.

Hallstatt

Hallstatt was known for mining salt as far back as the Early Iron Age, from 800 b.c.e. You can see the village in the first stamp on the second row here.

Melk Abbey

Melk Abbey is a Benedictine abbey, started in the early 1100s c.e. The main Baroque buildings, shown in the stamp, were built in the early Eighteenth Century.

Kapitel Pond

The Kapitel Pond is one of many sites in the historic center of Salzburg.

Note

Previously, stamps for a nation’s sites were solve primarily a booklet with images and text describing them. With this issue, the U.N. started issuing the stamps in sheets only and not issuing booklets. The booklets are nice and informative, but as a collector, I don’t like having to buy a whole booklet to get the six stamps I want for my collection. I prefer them like this. If they must do the booklets, I wish they’d offer the same stamps in both formats.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

World Heritage Site

1.1	✓	302	Semmering Railway	0.07 (mar 2002) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	303	Salzburg Horse Pond	0.51 (mar 2002) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	304	Wachau: Ruins of Aggstein Castle Austria	0.58 (mar 2002) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	305	Hallstatt Salzkammergut	0.73 (mar 2002) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	306	Wachau: Melk Abbey	0.87 (mar 2002) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	307	Salzburg: Kapitel Pond	2.03 (mar 2002) comm., multicolor

Endangered Species

3.1	✓	308	Siamang	0.51 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	309	African Penguin Spheniscus demersus	0.51 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	310	Banded Linsang	0.51 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	311	Sonoran Green Toad	0.51 (apr 2002) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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