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Austria
Austria's first issue was on 1st June 1850, celebrated in a centenary commemorative, right, which illustrates the coat of arms design rather better than the pale yellow first issue [the stamp is much paler than the scan]. Austria's philatelic innovation was the world's first newspaper stamp in 1851.
Austria’s first real airmail was issued in 1922
Lombardy and Venetia
Austria simultaneously issued a stamp for northern Italy, which was then part of the Austrian empire, but was gradually annexed to Italian states over following decades.
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