The Hungarian postal stationery (issued in 1919) with the 10 fillér denomiantion and Republican coat of arms is rarely seen. If Jenő Hoffmann, as an avid airmail collector, had not used several of these, they would be one of the greatest postal stationery rarities. Even so, if the opportunity arises, it is well worth grabbing and acquiring, as only 1-2 of these postal stationery change hands every year…
1898 Hungary (electrotyp issue), 10 krajcár face value of the envelope design issue, with watermark I. The sheet is made up of four parts, called the sheet quarters. A total of 6 different sheet quarters were used during the 11 years of production, these are denoted by the letters A-F. This stamp is the 13th stamp of sheet quarter D, so D-13 is the correct identification.
On parcel cards, paying for postage with a metered stamp is quite unusual. Bérczi D. Sándor needlework trade meter stamp on a COD parcel card and its advertisement.
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 László Batthyány-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.)
Hungary, Reaper with white numbers, 10 fillér value. Margitsziget military exhibition overprint. There is a rarely seen “Balken” (German) trace on the upper part. Does anyone know what the correct English word for this is? Border?
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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