Bidspirit auction | Lot of 4 postal items

Lot of 4 postal items connected with the Kleinwalsertal valley in Vorarlberg, Austria, an enclave reachable only from Germany and served through the post office of Oberstdorf in Bavaria, 1906 to 1920. (1) Picture postcard of Walserschanz at 1020 metres, published by the photographer J. Heimhuber of Sonthofen in 1906, franked with a 5 Heller Austrian stamp, with a violet two line Postablage Walserschanz, Vorarlberg handstamp and an Oberstdorf postmark dated 9 September 1906; (2) Austrian postal stationery Jubilaums Korrespondenz Karte issued for the sixtieth anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph, with an imprinted 5 Heller stamp, a blue boxed Postablage Walserschanz handstamp and an Oberstdorf postmark dated 4 September 1908, the other side with printed portraits of the Emperor of 1848 and 1908; (3) registered official cover of the Bavarian district office at Sonthofen, Vom Bezirksamte Sonthofen, with registration label R Sonthofen Nr. 852, franked with a vertical pair of Bavarian official 25 Pfennig stamps overprinted Volksstaat Bayern, with the oval handstamp of the office, sent to the parsonage at Riezlern; (4) registered cover from the architect OTTO OSSWALD of Stuttgart to the parsonage at Riezlern, with registration label Stuttgart 1 No 659a, a German censor tape inscribed under the regulation of 15 November 1918, franked with a pair of 30 Pfennig German National Assembly stamps of 1919 and a 30 Pfennig Germania stamp, with Stuttgart postmarks and an Oberstdorf arrival postmark of 1920. Both sides of each item photographed. Good condition, age marks and light creases, exactly as photographed.