For many years researchers tried to understand where the cachet shown below was applied.
The cachet it is different from others Austrian cachets used at the Ottoman-Austrian boreders.
As you can see articles were written and in fact there were four alternatives: Semlin, Alt Orshova (Dr Wurth and Leon Gobbles), Schuppanek and Mehadia. The later ones were assigned by Luciano de Zanche, Denis and Klaus Meyer.
Now it is the time to take a look into the books. Many years ago I had to spend weeks at Vienna to reaserch the libraries. Today I had to research…….Google book. They did and still are doing a great work.
The Austrians' published yearly books under the name Militar-Schematismus des Osterreischen Kaiserhumes. A chapter, usually at the end of the books, was dedicated to "Contumaz-Anstalten".
Well I made captures for you from the books printed in different years and no mention of Orshova and Mehadia during the time the cachet was used. I show a few letters from Wallachia sent to Pesth and struck with this cachet. That make clear that it cannot been use at Semlin. The only Contumaz which appears in the books and correspond to the letters dates it is Schuppanek. I gave some different colors to the pages to differentiate the printing years.
I think that we can attribute this cachet to Schuppanek together with the well known two wax seals.