AUSTRIA

AUSTRIA / ÖSTERREICH.

Airplane over landscapes.
Mount Torsäule.
Airmail. Last stamp in a set of 3, issued on 05.05.1947.
Face value: 5 Austrian shilling.
Design: Heinrich Blechner (1895-1983).
Engraving: Rupert Franke (1888-1971).
Printing: Recess.
Print: 740,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 39 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 713.
- ANK No. 825.
- Michel No. 827.
- Scott No. C52.
- StampWorld No. 837.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1022.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 52.

Torsäule (‘gateway column’), at 2,588 m (8,591 ft) above sea level, is a very steep limestone formation, approximately 500 meters high, on the east flank of Hochkönig massif with its glacier, know as Übergossene Alm (visible on the stamp), in the Berchtesgaden Alps, in the Sankt Johann im Pongau district of the federal state of Salzburg. With more than 36 routes, the southern wall of the Torsäule is the most climbed in the Hochkönig. Its summit was first reached in 1882 by Anton von Posselt-Czorich and J. Aigner.