The Austrian 2024 stamp program offers up a full year of vintage vehicles and outstanding designs. If there’s one thing we can rely upon annually, it’s the intense program Österreichische Post will issue. It’s sometimes difficult to keep up with their stamps. Not because of the number, but because of the intriguing topics. I often end up reading for hours on the artists and photographers as well as the various themes. If you are looking for a deep dive into Austria’s history and cultural treasures, well, stamps are a good starting point.
This year is already well underway, with a couple of excellent stamps, and re-occurring series but, I’m not sure any will rival 2023’s extensive 100 Jahre ÖBB /100 Years of ÖBB. 
This stamp used recycled acrylic glass to shape each old railway sign that hung on the bottom of each stamp. There are 1,031 different blue sections to collected – each one with a different station name. As a bonus, the blue acrylic tiles have small magnets attached so you can use them as fridge magnets. As well, each stamp has an NFT chip embedded that, when scanned with a smart phone, allows the viewer to travel along an animated “steam locomotive entering a tunnel and emerging as a modern electric locomotive”. That’s a lot of NFTs to collect, and you could devote an entire album to this series alone.
“The stamps were printed in multiple phases using screen and digital printing processes, mirrored on the reverse side, similar to reverse glass painting. The printed panels were then precision cut using high-precision lasers, including the characteristic perforations associated with stamps. On the reverse side of the slips with the station names, there’s a thin magnetic film, allowing the miniature station sign to be affixed to objects like a fridge.” Commemorative stamp 100 th anniversary of ÖBB – PostAG
Sometimes it takes time to find all the images, not all are available immediately. So don’t forget to pop back occasionally to see if I’ve loaded up either more images or better ones. And, some of the dates for upcoming stamps will change.
Oh and one last note. This year’s special winter release will be Snow Boots. Looking forward to seeing it.
Enjoy
Catpaw
January
The Origin of All Things is Small
5 stamps on a sheet
offset
Release date: January 2, 2024
Winter vegetables
Series 8
8 stamps on a sheet
offset
Release date: January 2, 2024
Clown Triggerfish
Series: Fish
1 stamp
offset
Balistoides conspicillum Balistoides conspicillum, Clown triggerfish : fisheries, aquarium (fishbase.se)
Release date: January 2, 2024
Wien Museum
Series: 20
20 stamps on sheet
offset
Release date: January 2, 2024
Attractions in Austria
Series: 4
4 stamps on sheet
offset
- Laxenburg Castle, Lower Austria
- St. Gallus Parish Church, Vorarlberg
- Prater Amusement Park, Vienna – Prater Park has appeared on a number of stamps including the 250th Anniversary of Prater
- Güssing Castle, Burgenland
Release date: January 2, 2024
Special Post Office 2024 – Summer
vending machine stamps
2 vending machine stamps
offset
Austria issues a series of themed vending machine stamps each year. The stamps alternate on a single roll.
Release date: January 9, 2024
Lohner L98 „Kamel“
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
The first Austrian motor scooter.
The Lohner-Werke, founded in 1821 by Heinrich Lohner, had already written vehicle history with the Lohner-Porsche electric car and the Mixte with hybrid drive. In the 1950s, the demand for low-cost transport increased, and the heyday of two-wheelers began. Otto Kauba designed the L98 (L for Lohner and 98 for displacement) in 1950 as an affordable vehicle for everyday use. The single-seater scooter with a self-supporting chassis, which could be retrofitted with a second seat, was equipped with a single-cylinder two-stroke engine with 2.25 hp from Sachs. The L98 was nicknamed the “camel” because of its “hump” as a luggage compartment. In 1952, an improved touring model, the L98T, was launched, and other more powerful models followed, until the scooter boom gradually subsided in the 1960s.
Austria Post write-up
Designer: David Gruber
Gruber is a prolific stamp artist with over 200 stamps in his portfolio for Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland.
Release date: January 12, 2024
European Capital of Culture – Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Each year a different city takes on the title of European Capital of Culture. Since its inception in 1985, over 60 cities across Europe have been showcased as culture capitals, including Austrian cities Graz (2003) and Linz (2009).
This year 3 cities are showcased Bad Ischl (Austria), Bodø (Norway), and Tartu (Estonia)
Bad Ischl – The imperial town in the center of the Salzkammergut
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Marion has 65 stamp designs to her credit, including the 2021 EUROPA Endangered Wildlife stamp Wolf.
Release date: January 20, 2024
Amboss – Cutlery 2060
Series: Design made in Austria
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
This set was designed 1955.
Carl Auböck (1924–1993) was a Viennese designer and architect, as well as a professor at the Uni-versity of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he led the master class for metal product design. Auböck is considered a representative of a factual, internationally oriented modernism. He designed apartments, residential complexes, commercial premises, and a church, with a special focus on industrial design for renowned manufacturers. The 2060 cutlery, captivating with its reduced elegance and sculptural design, was created around 1955 for the Upper Austrian manufacturer Neuzeughammer Ambosswerk. Founded in the 18th century, Amboss was in business until the 1990s and was especially known for its high-quality designed cutlery. The 2060 cutlery was awarded the silver medal at the 11th Triennale in Venice in 1957 and the gold medal at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels.
Austria Post write up.
Designer: Anita Kern
Kern authored Austrian Graphic Design in the 20th Century (2008). Her first design was the 2013 Gmunden dress (Dirndl and sectional drawings of two Janker). Since then she has created dozens of stamps including the Traditional Costumes – Accessories series in 2020. She is also known for her typography work.
Release date: January 24, 2024
Bassoon
Series: Austria, land of music
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet, sheets of 10 + black & white sheet
offset
Another in Austria’s long running Austria, land of music series.
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: January 25, 2024
February
Melk Abbey Church
Series: Churches
1 stamp
offset
Melk Abbey (lower-austria.info)
Release date: February 1, 2024
Domestic fauna
Series 4
4 stamps
offset
Release date: February 1, 2024
Four Seasons
10 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Designer: Theresa Radlingmaier
Tadlingmaier’s won Österreichische Post AG and DiePresse’s 2018 Stamp competition with her New Ways – Carrier Pigeon design.
Release date: February 14, 2024
Congratulations – 2024
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Designer: Emma Zwettler
Congratulations and Condolences are Emma’s first stamps.
Release date: February 14, 2024
Condolences – 2024
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Designer: Emma Zwettler
Release date: February 14, 2024
Postage Stamps from 1917/19
2 stamps, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
The two stamps in this set were originally issued between 1917-1919.
Coat of Arms.
Designer: Anita Kern
Release date: February 21, 2024
March
Flowers
Series: 4
4 stamps on sheet
offset
Ipheion, flax, nigella, common corn-cockle
Release date: March 1, 2024
The History of the Bicycle
Series: 8
9 stamps on a sheet
offset
Release date: March 1, 2024
Storks
Series: Animals
stamp
offset
Release date: March 1, 2024
Treasures From Our Postal Archive: Domestic Flowers
20 stamps
offset
Release date: March 1, 2024
Giant Ground Beetle – Carabus Nodulosus
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, sheets of 10, black & white sheets, info sheet
offset
Carabus nodulosus · iNaturalist
Designer: Theresa Radlingmaier
Release date: March 2, 2024
Loyalty Bonus Brand for 2024 – Amaryllis
1 stamp, cancel
Designer: Brigitte Heiden
Amaryllis is Heiden’s 13th Bonus Brand stamp, and 14th overall design.
Release date: March 1, 2024
Austro Tatra 57A
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: March 2, 2024
Corn Bunting – Emberiza calandra
Bird of the Year
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, sheets of 10, info sheet
offset
Corn bunting | The Wildlife Trusts
Designer: Lisa Filzi
Release date: March 2, 2024
April
Austria’s Natural Treasures
Series: 4
4 stamps on sheet
offset
Lake Waller, Salzburg; Traun Waterfall, Upper Austria; Stubai Alps, Tyrol; Danube Island, Vienna
Release date: April 2, 2024
Village Churches
Series: 1
4 stamps on sheet
offsest
Release date: April 2, 2024
Xenia Hausner – Exiles 1, 2017
1 stamp, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Xenia Hausner is an Austrian artist and set designer. She is also a founding member of Women Without Borders.
Exiles 1 is part of a series of four oil paintings by Hausner. Each painting takes place in a train window, exploring the emotions and fears of the people. Each image was based on a photograph by Hausner created in her studio.
When it comes to these current events, the most obvious association is the iconography and title of the Images suggest the drama of the refugee crisis, which is in the headlines and public perception has had such an impact on the last two years and at the same time has permanently changed the political landscape. Not just the (civil) wars in the Middle East, but also the increasingly significant effects of global warming, which in the near future will far eclipse that of wars, have an in An unprecedented number of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and the North African states have been driven to Europe, without fearing either the great dangers or the hardships held off.
09064c304c684cc7.pdf (artbutler.com) This pdf is in German, but easily translated. It dives into the exhibit in much more detail.
Designer: Regina Simon
Artist: Xenia Haussner
Xenia Hausner is a contemporary Austrian artist known for her dynamically patterned, full-scale paintings of women. Using oil and acrylic paints on dibond—an aluminum composite material—she combines Expressionist and realist practices, similar to the style of American Neo-Expressionist painter Eric Fischl.
Xenia Hausner | Artnet
Release date: April 5, 2024
Jakob L. Moreno 1889–1974
1 stamp, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Romanian-American psychiatrist. Issued on the 50th anniversary of his death. Educator and therapist who founded Sociometry-Effect on Sociology, Psychotherapy in Groups and Theatre. Biography | Moreno Museum Association
Designer: Theresa Radlingmaier
Release date: April 5, 2024
100 Years of Linz New Cathedral
1 stamp, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Mariendom (New Cathedral) Linz » Linz Tourismus
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: April 5, 2024
May
100-year Anniversary of Avis BGV-I
1 stamp on souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel, info sheet, black and white print
offset
The Avis Flugzeug- und Autowerke was formed 1924. It was reformed from the Technische Werkstätten GmbH, a Vienna based company that began business April 12, 1921. The company moved its headquarters to Brunn am Gebirge and began working under the new name on July 15, 1924,
The company originally made cars and added aircraft in 1924. This was Austria’s first home grown aircraft company. They manufactured the BGV-I, Austria’s first homegrown aircraft.
The company halted business in 1928.
Ad from a French aviation newspaper l’Aerophile in the 1020s
Designer: Anita Kern
Release date: May 17, 2024
EUROPA 2024 – Grüner See / Green Lake
1 stamp on souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel, info sheet, black and white print
offset
Lake in the Styria region of Austria. The lake gets its name from the deep emerald green water colour.
As soon as the snow melts and Grüner See fills with crystal-clear water from the surrounding mountains, visitors are presented with a magical natural spectacle: The lake shimmers in rich emerald green.
Grüner See (Green Lake) in Tragöß – Sankt Katharein | ERZBERG (steiermark.com)
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Release date: May 3, 2024
150 Years of the Vienna Harness Racing Club
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet, black and white print
offset
Second oldest race course in Europe. Built in 1878. Krieau, Vienna – The Viennese Harness Racing Track Club (viennadirect.com)
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: May 3, 2024
Pinzgauer Lokalbahn – Local Railway
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet, black and white print
offset
The construction of a narrow gauge railway in the Pinzgau region was first proposed in 1889. By 1896, royal approval was formally granted by Emperor Franz Josef and after a two year construction period the line from Zell am See to Krimml officially opened in early January 1898.
Initially, two sets of passenger trains operated each day. One mixed consist also transported timber and other agricultural goods. Until the introduction of transporter wagons in 1926, all freight had to be separately transferred from narrow gauge to standard gauge wagons in Zell am See. Passenger numbers were favorable from the very beginning, thanks to the scenic appeal of the Krimml waterfalls and the development of tourism in the region. Firmenfeiern (pinzgauerlokalbahn.at)
This train appeared on a stamp in 1998 for the 100th anniversary of it’s creation, Pinzgau Railway, 100th anniversary.
Designer: Peter Sinawehl
Release date: May 3, 2024
200 Years of Piatnik Playing Cards
4 mini sheets in shape of a playing card, 4 FDCs, cancel
offset
Clubs, Spades, Diamonds & Hearts are each issued on separate stamps and covers.
There don’t appear to be info sheets or black and white prints available for this set.
Celebrating 200 years of Piatnic playing cards. This Vienna based company traces it’s origins to 1824 when Ferdinand Piatnik’s first venture into playing cards. Today, they make puzzles, board games as well as their now iconic playing cards. The World of Playing Cards website has a great bio page on Piatnik and the company he founded. Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne — Piatnik — The World of Playing Cards (wopc.co.uk) an excellent resource that was surprising in the details they cover. Worth a visit.
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Release date: June 23, 2024
June
1,100th Birthday St. Wolfgang
Series: sacred art
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, pack, info sheet, maxi card (to be issued)
offset
Benedictine monk, born in 924 CE, became the Bishop of Regensburg.
According to legend, he threw an axe from there into the valley to mark the spot where a church should be built. Today, the pilgrimage church of St. Wolfgang stands at this site, marking the end of the pilgrimage route from Regensburg to St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut region.Commemorative stamp, sacred art – PostAG
The statue in the stamp is part of the Baroque Schwanthaler altar in the Church,
Pfarrgemeinde St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut (dioezese-linz.at)
St. Wolfgang has appeared on stamps from Germany in 1994, Austria in 1976.
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: June 14, 2024
Mangalica Pig
1 stamp, 2 FDCs, cancel, sheets of 10, pack, black prints, info sheet
offset
The woolly pig is one of the oldest indigenous breeds in Europe.
Mangalica’s are an “old breed” of pigs that nearly disappeared in the 1990s due to lack of interest in raising this unique breed. The pig is known for it’s curly fur and it’s rich, buttery lard. During the 1800s, it was a popular pig because of its thick lard, which was used in cooking, and industrial applications. The Mangalica is one of the “fattest pigs in the world” (What is a Mangalitsa Pig? | D’Artagnan (dartagnan.com)) and fell victim to the late 20th century desire for leaner cuts of meat and the use of vegetable oils rather than lard. This was further complicated by the rise in factory farming that put more value on fast growing breeds over the relatively slow growing Mangalica that did best as a free range animal.
By the 1990s the alarm was raised that the world was at risk of losing the last known fleecy coats and an effort was made to save the Mangalica.
In the early 1990s, there were just 198 Mangalica pigs left and a Hungarian animal geneticist became alarmed. He began a program that encouraged dedicated farmers to keep the breed alive, and raise the pigs on pastureland traditionally. Cooperatives of farmers were formed to protect the breed, and over 20 years, as the numbers stabilized, traditional Mangalica sausage with sweet paprika became available in the Hungarian markets again. When people stop eating a breed, farmers stop raising the animals. Thus, the seemingly contradictory logic of the phrase: “Eat them to save them.”
Today there are over 50,000 Mangalica pigs available annually, which still makes them a very special and limited breed, but well out of the danger zone for extinction. There are even a few specialized farmers raising Mangalica pigs in the United States today. And Slow Food, an international organization that preserves traditional foods and endangered animal breeds, and stands against the industrialization of food has listed the Mangalica pig in its Ark of Taste, recognizing it as a breed worth saving (and eating).
What is a Mangalitsa Pig? | D’Artagnan (dartagnan.com)
It is still considered a critically endangered livestock breed.
The Mangalica was featured in a 2005 Hungarian stamp:
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: June 21, 2024
Traditions
Series: beautiful Austria
4 stamps on a sheetlet, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
- annual Daffodil Festival in Ausseerland – largest flower festival in Austria
- “Sturm” – traditional autumn wine made that us red or white grape must that has just started fermenting
- coffee and a cake with whipped cream
- button accordion, popular with Alpine folk music and Viennese Schrammel music
The Daffodil Festival appeared on an Austrian stamp in 2020; Sturm appeared on a stamp in 2021; button accordion was featured on a Swiss stamp in 1985
Designer: Roland Vorlaufer
Release date: June 21, 2024
950 Years Admont Abbey
1 stamp, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
This Benedictine monastery was consecrated in September 29, 1074.
On 29 September 1074, Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg consecrated a Benedictine monastery in the Styrian village of Admont in the presence of many ecclesiastical and secular dignitaries. The foundation was based on a rich donation (endowment, hence the name “monastery”) from Countess Hemma von Gurk. The first 12 monks came to Admont from the old monastery of St Peter in Salzburg. The first monastery building was, of course, correspondingly simple. The location for the foundation of the monastery was deliberately chosen as an infrastructure was already in place here (the parish of St Amand in Admont, salt mining in Hall). Admont was to become a refuge for the strict reform spirit of Cluny and Hirsau, making it one of the many newly founded reform monasteries of the 11th century. The monastery was founded at a difficult time: it was the era of the investiture dispute between the emperor and the pope. As Admont was founded in Salzburg, the imperial party repeatedly attacked the young monastery.
Read the rest of Admont’s history here Timeline – EN (stiftadmont.at)
Poster for the special unveiling event held at the monastery.
New special-issue stamp 950 years of Admont Abbey – EN (stiftadmont.at)
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: June 27, 2024
July
Stefan Zweig
Series: 2nd set in Literature from Austria
1 stamp, 2 FDCs, cancel, sheet of10, info sheet, black and white stamp and sheet
offset
Writer, journalist
Zweig: The writer who dreamed of a world without borders (bbc.com)
Zweig was previously featured on a stamp in 1981 (Austria) and 2017 (Albania)
Designer: Roland Vorlaufer
Release date: July 17, 2024
Charlotte Klobassa – Rumours, 2023
Series: Young art in Austria
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet, black and white print
offset
This is the first time Klobassa’s art has appeared on a stamp. She was picked to represent the Young Art in Austria series this year.
Rumours, 2023: Art as Composition
My grandfather was a painter, my grandmother a sculptor. My father, too, studied sculpture. Everyone was always doing something creative. We are an art-loving family. My grandpa had his studio at his house, and when we went there for lunch on Sundays as children, we could experience what it means being artists. His name was Erwin Klobassa. He was not terribly famous and in addition to painting, he also worked as a restorer. When I was a child, he only painted. When my grandparents took naps, I would sneak into his studio with my sister and cousin and draw.
»Art is impulsive.« (collectorsagenda.com)
Designer: Theresa Radlingmaier
Release date: July 17, 2024
DC Tower 1
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
DC Tower 1 is the tallest building in Austria. Construction completed in the Summer 2013. The second tower is currently under construction. The Towers were designed by Dominique Perrault, a French architect and urban planner.
The Tower has an interesting website, Home – DC Tower – State of your Mind, that includes an impressive 360 virtual tour.
Designer: Karin Klier
Release date: July 17, 2024
Samuel von Hoogstraten – Old Man in the Window, 1653
Series: Old Masters
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627–1678) was a painter, and art theorist who trained in Rembrandt’s workshop.
In his works, he delved deeply into perspectives. His speciality was the so-called “trompe-l’œils” (“deceive the eye”), optical illusions that appear three-dimensional. “Old Man at the Window” is one such work: the man’s head protrudes from an intricately painted window, giving the impression that it is detached from his body. The painting can be seen in the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Samuel van Hoogstraten commemorative stamp – PostAG
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: July 17, 2024
Russula Cyanoxantha – Charcoal Burner
Series: Austrian mushrooms
1 stamp, cancel
offset
There might be a FDC, but I haven’t found it on Austria’s post office site.
This mushroom has appeared on 12 stamps from around the world. The Charcoal Burner is the 5th stamp in the Endemic Mushrooms of Austria series that began in 2020.
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Release date: July 23, 2024
August
Stamp Day 2024
1 stamp, cancel (details coming)
offset
Designer: Anita Kern
Release date: August 23, 2024
Citroen Kegresse P15N
1 stamp, cancel (details coming)
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: August 23, 2024
Womens Täubling
Release date: August 2, 2024
200th Birthday Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
19th c composer, organist and teacher. The National Arts Centre (NAC) has a concise and interesting biography on Bruckner and his influence on the classical music world. Anton Bruckner | Biographies | National Arts Centre (nac-cna.ca). A very approachable and well written post.
Austria featured Bruckner on three previous stamps. Anton (Joseph) Bruckner (1824-96) in 1922, Anton Bruckner (1824-96) composer in 1949 and Anton Bruckner (1824-96) composer & Bruckner House in 1974.
Designer: Theresa Radlingmaier
Release date: August 2, 2024
September
150th Birthday of Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Chamber music quartet, Quatuor Bozzini wrote an article on Schönberg for their website. Its a bit more complex than the NAC’s Bruckner writeup, but worth the effort.
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg — Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933), (September 13, 1874 — July 13, 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg’s works are associated with the expressionist movements in early 20th-century German poetry and art, and he was among the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development. Schoenberg is particularly well-known as the innovator of the twelve-tone technique, a compositional technique involving tone rows. He was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition. Arnold Schönberg – Quatuor Bozzini
Schönberg was featured on an Austrian stamp in 1974 for the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Designer: Theresa Radlingmaier
Release date: September 6, 2024
Christ the Apothecary
Oil painting 1657 “donated to the burgher hospital in St. Pölten by a local family as thanks for surviving the plague.” Commemorative stamp, Christ as a pharmacist – PostAG
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: September 6, 2024
Herbert Hönel – First Water Soluble Lacquer Resin
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: September 6, 2024
Diana with Menthol
series: traditional brands
1 stamp, cancel
offset
This is a menthol scented stamp.
“That feels good” – company slogan for their Diana rubbing alcohol.
In 1897, a Hungarian pharmacist from the “Diana Pharmacy” discovered the versatile effects of Franzbranntwein rubbing alcohol infused with menthol. The tonic, known under the pharmacy’s name, was registered in the Austrian trademark register in 1907, making DIANA one of the oldest brands in the country. The logo features Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, with a bow and arrow, symbolizing vitality and a connection to nature.
Commemorative stamp, DIANA with menthol – PostAG
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Release date: September 6, 2024
October
150 years of the Universal Postal Union (UPU)
Release date: October 4, 2024
100 Years of Broadcasting Austria
Release date: October 4, 2024
Technical Innovations
Release date: October 4, 2024
November
Snow Boots
Release date: November 8, 2024
200 years of Vienna city insurance association
Release date: November 8, 2024
Christmas – Traismaurer Nativity Play
Release date: November 8, 2024
Christmas – Christmas Wreath
Release date: November 8, 2024
Christmas – Wagrain Organ Nativity Scene
Release date: November 8, 2024
Christmas
Release date: November 8, 2024
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