Bear Stamps and Cancellations from Austria

Bear Stamps from Austria

	Bear type - toy Year - 2002 Face value - 51c Description - Two teddy bears [from teddy bears centennial issue] Scott # - 1895 Stanley Gibbons # - 2647 Michel # - 2385 WNS # - AT023.02
	Bear type - panda Year - 2003 Face value - E 1.75 Description - Pandas (two different stamps) Scott # - 1970 (souvenir sheet of 2) Stanley Gibbons # - MS 2671 Michel # - 2409-2410 set / Block 8 WNS # - AT007.03, 08.03
	Bear type - polar, fictional Year - 2005 Face Value - 55c Description - Polar bears and other animals [from Chronicles of Narnia issue] Scott # - 2030 Stanley Gibbons # - 2791 Michel # - 2560 WNS # - AT058.05
	Bear type - brown Year - 2006 Face Value - 55c Description - Brown bear [from animals issue] Scott # - 2072 (from 2070-2072 set) Stanley Gibbons # - 2840 (from 2839-2840 set) Michel # - 2623 WNS # - AT054.06
	Bear type - panda Year - 2008 Face Value - E.75 total Description - Pandas souvenir sheet with overprint for the Beijing Olympics Scott # - not listed Stanley Gibbons # - not listed Michel # - mentioned but not numbered WNS # - not listed

Cancellations

	Where: Vienna Date:985 Description: Stylized bears [commemorating the Vienna Flur Festival]
	Where: Vienna Date: April5, 1988 Description: WWF panda [first day of issue cancellation for the WWF bee eater issue]
	Where: Semriach Date: April 29, 1994 Description: Bear inside of a cave [first day of issue cancellation for the Lurgrotte issue]
	Where: Telfs Date: September 9, 1996 Description: Bear, men [cancellation commemorating 10 years of the Merkur Youth Group]
	Where: Vienna Date: December 18, 1999 Description: Polar bear
	Where: Hirtenberg Date: June 14, 2002 Description: Two teddy bears
	Where: Vienna Date: April 14, 2003 Description: Panda
	Where: Vienna Date: November 6, 2006 Description: Brown bear [first day of issue cancellation for the brown bear issue]
	Where: Graz Date: July 30, 2007 Description: Grizzly bear on California coat of arms [first day of issue cancellation for the Arnold Schwarzenegger stamp]
	Where: Gmunden Date: December 29, 2007 Description: Teddy bear holding a soccer ball / football [for UEFA EURO 2008]
	Where: Graz Date: June2, 2008 Description: Teddy bear, toys, Christmas tree [for Styria 2008]
	Where: Kirchberg in Tirol Date: September 22, 2009 Description: Panda on cancellation for the "2nd Special Balloon Mailing," and proceeds of the mailing benefited the St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute.
	Where: Vienna Date: November 18, 2009 Description: Panda on cancellation for the departure of panda Fu Long
	Where: Vienna Date: December 13, 2009 Description: Teddy bear in a stocking and other items in the shape of a Christmas tree
	Where: Vienna Date: February 12, 2010 Description: Bear [for 2010 Winter Olympics]

Personalized Stamps There are a number of Austrian "personalized stamps" which may or may not have been available to purchase on the Austria Post website. I think some of these are stamps that individual people created and thus were not for sale to the general public. I suspect others were actually created the Austrian Post and those stamps were for sale on the website. As far as I know, these are not catalog listed, and in many cases the number of printed stamps is very small. They are shown here for informational purposes and are NOT on the printable lists.

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