Autro-Hungarian Empire - Part 2 Ukraine

Teatr Miejski we Lwowie / Municipal Theater of Lwow (Today's Lviv Opera)

Sent in 1900 from Lwów (in Polish) / Lemberg (in German) to Tarnopol

Bilingual postmark Lemberg / Lwów - Podzamcze 1900

Arrival cancel of Tarnopol

Today's first item is a postcard of the Lwów Municipal Theater sent in 1900 from Lemberg / Lwów - Podzamcze (now Львів / Lviv - Підзамче / Pidzamtche in Ukraine) to Tarnopol (now Тернопіль / Ternopil, Ukraine). Lemberg which is known better with the Polish name Lwów, was one the major cities within the Habsburg Empire. If you do collect classic Austrian stamps, you might have one or two stamps with Lemberg / Lwów main post office cancel on it since it is not that rare. What is harder to get are those sub-post offices that operated in less important quarters. Podzamcze (Підзамче / Pidzamtche) was one the six urban subdivisions of Lwów and also the oldest part of the city. During the Austro-Hungarian rule, the postmarks of those sub-offices carried their names but later during the Polish rule, it was simply numbered like Lwów 1, Lwów 2 etc... In Lwów case, Lwów 1 was the Main Post Office, Lwów 2 was the Main Railway Station office, Podzamcze office became Lwów 4.
Along with the nice Lwów cancel, it also has a nice Tarnopol arrival cancel which is today also part of Ukraine.


Sent in 1905 from Kolomea to Osnabrück, Germany.

Bilingual postmark Kolomea (in German) / Kołomyja (in Polish) 1

The second item is a cover sent in 1905 from Kolomea / Kołomyja (now Коломия / Kolomyia, Ukraine). Like the postmark on the first Lwów postcard, this one also a bilingual postmark written in German and Polish. The "L" of Kołomyja in Polish spelling has a little bar in the middle which makes the pronunciation close to "KOWOMIYA". I suppose Kolomea 1 was the main post office like in most the cities and towns (but I'm not 100% sure so correct me if I'm wrong). 

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