, the
series comprises several good portraits. The 30 heller shows him at
the time of his accession in 1848, the 35 heller a portrait painted
thirty years later, 1878; the 50 heller shows him in the uniform of a
Field Marshal, and on the 1 krone he figures with the insignia of the
Order of the Golden Fleece.

Contemporary portraits appear on the 5, 10, and 25 heller (_Figs._
244, 246, 249), and a particularly fine portrait stamp of large size
is the 10 kronen (_Fig._ 257) printed in deep brown, blue and ochre.

[Illustration: 247 248 249 250 251 252]

The 2 and 5 kronen stamps (_Figs._ 255, 256) respectively present
views of the Imperial palaces Sch[:o]nbrunn and Hofburg.

[Illustration: 255 256 253 257 254]

On October 4, 1914, two stamps were issued in Austria of a war charity
postal character, selling for 2 heller more than the face value,
the extra 2 heller going to the fund for the widows and orphans of
Austrian soldiers killed in the war. The designs are adapted from the
ordinary 5 and 10 heller stamps (_Figs._ 244, 246) by a lengthening
of the stamps for the addition of the date 1914 (_Fig._ 258). These
although paying postage to the value of 5 and 10 heller, sell at 7 and
12 heller respectively.

[Illustration: 258 259]

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. The military occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by
Austria under the treaty of Berlin, 1878, was followed thirty years
later by the coup of October 5, 1908, by which the Emperor-King
proclaimed his sovereignty over the two provinces. His portrait first
appeared on a Bosnian stamp of the pictorial series of 1906-7 in
which, incidentally, there are included views of Sarajevo where
occurred the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28,
1914, a tragedy which provided a pretext for hastening the German
plans for a world war. In 1912 the Emperor-King's portrait re-appeared
on the stamps of the military postal administration of these provinces
(_Fig._ 259).

The 5 and 10 heller stamps of 1906 giving views of the Pass of Narenta
with a view of the river Prenj, and the valley of Vrba, are reported
to have been overprinted "1914" and surcharged 7 and 12 hellers for
use in collecting 2 heller contributions to the Austrian war fund.

HUNGARY. The stamps of Hungary, in the lower values (_Fig._ 260)
depict the Turul, the mythical bird of the Magyars, which was said to
have been the messenger between them and Heaven, and their guide along
the road that took them into Hu