100th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1950 - 60 Groschen

Josef Madersperger, born on October 6, 1768 in Kufstein, the son of tailor Georg Madersperger and Gertrud Rieder, was involved in the construction of a sewing machine since 1807. On May 15, 1815, a Frankfurt post office newspaper published the first note of Madersperger's invention, the sewing machine. On February 10, 1815 Emperor Franz granted a privilege for six years against payment of the then prescribed taxes. Madersperger, however, could not afford the money for the taxis, and so the privilege ceased in 1818. Madersperger, who is also the inventor of the "Kettelstiches" and the Doublestoffes, which could be worn both as Oberzeug as well as Unterfutter, but was during his lifetime accompanied by failures, because lack of funding opportunities he was denied the profitable use of his inventions. Only fifty years after Madersperger, he died on October 2, 1850, had Elias Howe patented his sewing machine and acquired a tremendous fortune.