1898 Hungary, 20 krajcár face value of the envelope design issue, with watermark I. Produced by letterpress printing method based on electrotyping. That is why Hungarians call this issue as “electrotyp issue”.
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A small amount of misperforation is not uncommon in the Hungarian 1871 stamp issue. However, such an extreme misperforation, where 4 stamps can be seen on a single stamp, is a real rarity. This is shown here, on a lithographed 5 krajcár (type V.) stamp.
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 accident…
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.
Charles IV was the last king of Hungary. Work on the series of stamps for the coronation celebrations on 30 December 1916 did not progress well.
One result of the delay was the poor quality of the design, which was below the standards of the time, and the interchange of colours on the 10 and 15 fillér denominations. Originally, the 10 fillér was supposed to be red and the 15 fillér purple.
The imperforated pairs shown here are proofs on yellowish-brown paper without watermark. Interestingly, Charles ascended the Hungarian throne as Charles IV, but in the meantime became Emperor of Austria as Charles I and King of Croatia as Charles III.
BUDA / VIZIVÁROS rare postmark on misperforated strip of three 5 krajcar, 1871 engraved issue. Buda and Pest were not united until 1873, so in 1872 they were two cities. Viziváros (Water Town) was a suburb, but it’s now part of the historic city centre.
1874 the Hungarian engraved telegraph stamp of 40 krajcar. On the right stamp, there is spectacular plate wear in the area behind the value number.
1874 the Hungarian engraved telegraph stamp of 25 krajcar. The opposite of the previous post, overpainting below and above the value number instead of wear.
Hungary 5 krajcár type I. – rare stamp with rare postmark GYIMES-CSÍKSZÉK (Transylvania) in greenish color.
The 1874-1899 edition is the most difficult area of Hungarian philately. This 1888 12 krajcár stereo print with BEŠKA (now Serbia) postmark is shown on a parcel card cutout, with an interesting plate break under the postal horn.
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 fillér stamps.
