Nine vignettes showcase the glittering highlights of "Das schöne Wien" — beautiful Vienna — in this lively chrome multi-view: the Gothic twin spires of the Votivkirche, a crimson-uniformed rider of the Spanish Riding School astride a gleaming white Lipizzaner, the neo-Gothic Rathaus with its park fountain, the Mozart monument in the Burggarten, an aerial view of Stephansdom rising above the rooftops, the graceful Strauss memorial in the Stadtpark, the colonnaded Parliament, the formal gardens of Schönbrunn, and the Baroque Pestsäule (Plague Column) on the Graben. Jo and Ken, writing on July 6, 1983, addressed their card to Irene in Elgin, Illinois, with a wry note: "Would help if we spoke the language — Hope our legs hold out & the music continues. We're going behind the Iron Curtain & do wish to return. Trust the Pope is writing for us!!" The stamp — a $6 Austrian Airlines 25th Anniversary commemorative, featuring a jet aircraft against a blue globe grid — is itself a standout philatelic item with solid collector value.