One of my ‘liebling’ is the decorative envelopes from the XIX. century. This swan was hiding on the back of a perfectly ordinary envelope.
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The postal service in Hungary also suffered a period of scarcity after the second world war, and cash payment of postage became more common due to the shortage of paper/stamps. In such cases, the postmark with the postal control number (in our case đđđđ) always had to be printed on the mail to make fraud more difficult.
This control postmark clearly identified not only the postal office but also the identity of the postman or postwoman.
On parcel cards, paying for postage with a metered stamp is quite unusual. BĂ©rczi D. SĂĄndor needlework trade meter stamp on a COD parcel card and its advertisement.
An interesting piece from the upcoming Siegel Auction.
I have a collection of this type of envelopes, but only Hungarian ones, I will post them here later. Only pieces where the lines of the address are composed into the picture will be included in the collection. In this case, not only the address, but even the stamp is part of the artwork – great piece.
The post is not sponsored.
Postal history research is a form of detective work. Sometimes the social environment is more interesting than the postal history.
On this Hungarian first inflation registered cover, the sender’s coat of arms really stands out. If you look closely, you can see the Order of the Golden Fleece. There were 31 Hungarian members of the order, and the only one still alive was LĂĄszlĂł BatthyĂĄny-Strattmann, the “doctor of the poor”.
(I’m not a coat of arms expert, so if I’m wrong, please write me the right answer.)
8 + 2 filler stamp from the Hungarian Saint Emeric series issued in 1930. Emeric was the heir to the Hungarian throne, but lost his life in a hunting accident at a young age. According to some sources there was no accidentâŠ
Rare everyday use of the Saint Emeric 8 + 2 filler commemorative stamp on a parcel card.
Another interesting feature of parcel cards is that the stamp combinations on them are always considered to be in everyday use. The reason for this is that the parcel cards were left at the post office for safekeeping, so the recipient had no opportunity to get the stamps from them.
Due to the First Inflationary Depression, the Post Office overprinted the 250 filler denominated stamps to 2,000 korona, this mean an eight-hundred-fold increase in value. The left margin of the block of eight shown here has developed a spectacular misperforation due to paper folding.
The 2000 korona overprinted official stamps seen in the previous post, on a long-distance registered envelope used in 1924.
For parcel post, as for letter post, the weighting is directly proportional to the rarity of the items. In general, the higher the weight, the rarer the philatelic object.
This parcel card belonged to a domestic parcel weighing 6.4 kg, so it is not particularly rare, the really interesting domestic parcels in this period start at over 10 kg.
In the past, collectors threw perfin stamps away, but nowadays they have a large collector base. This early collecting behaviour also explains why perfin stamps have become rare. It is particularly dear to our hearts to see perfin stamps on postal history items. The parcel card shown here was sent to Switzerland by the Hungarian representative of the YOST typewriter factory. For security reasons, the seal of the package had to be glued on the coupon side of the parcel card so that the addressee could check the package was unopened. This meant that the company’s letter seal also survived with the six Y-punched stamps. The postage for colis postal was 1 korona, which was paid with six stamps. It should be noted that companies rarely kept high value stamps in stock, hence the rarity of high denomination perfin stamps. It is likely that Yost did not have stamps with Korona currency in stock, so they paid the 1 Korona postage with the fillĂ©r stamps.
The Hungarian 2 kr imprinted postage stamp is equivalent to 4 fillér which, together with the 6 fillér stamp, makes the correct postage of 10 fillér.
Such use of the postal tariff reply card was theoretically irregular, but the surviving material shows that these cards were accepted.
The mixed use of the krajcår and fillér stamps were possible for 9 months, so fortunately we have several beautiful mixed frankings left.
This period (01.01.1900 – 30.09.1900) is one of the most popular collecting periods of Hungarian philately.
The 6 fillér stamp of the 1900 issue was issued in four colours, the history of which is quite interesting, but I will tell you about it later.
