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Dear friends !
During the twelve months of 2006 I will present interesting items of the
twelve oldest Volleyball stamps. I hope you will be
interested in them. Today we continue with the sixth part (June), a stamp
from
Hungary (and its variations). If you have any interesting covers or other material to
enrich this site, please let me know.
Gunter
The sixth Volleyball stamp issued worldwide comes from
Hungary (the second Volleyball issue from this country after the one from
1950, which was the
item of the month of april) and exists in different
versions. It was issued on June 6th, 1953 and does not show Volleyball as
its main topic. It was issued in the Building series (which consists of
nine values) and shows the Iron and Steel Apprentices Institute, in
Csepel, Hungary. It is a definitive stamp with a face value of 1.70
Filler. It has perforation 15 and watermark 12. It was printed in
photogravure and designed by Z. Nagy. The size of the picture is 22
x 18 mm.
watermark Michel number 12
There are two more versions of this stamp, which were issued at a later date though.
First there is an overprinted version issued on Oct 29, 1956.
In
October 1956 during the rebellion in Hungary, nineteen values of the "buildings series"
and two of the "workers issue" were overprinted by the rebels at Sopron in
contravention of postal regulations. Some employees attempted to sell them
over the counter but the stocks were soon confiscated by the Director of
Posts and the issue was invalidated. Between 11.500 and 38.900 stamps of
seven values were overprinted and later the Philatelic Agency made
available about 12.000 sets to Hungarian collectors, one per applicant,
and the balance was sold abroad. Only very limited quantities were overprinted of
the other values, one of them being this Volleyball stamp, and these were not distributed.
It is said that there were 900 stamps of our Volleyball stamps were
overprinted and that it had been valid for local postage until Jan 25,
1957.
Definitive stamp overprinted (typography) in red
colour in 4 lines: “Hazadnak / rendületlenül ..! / Sopron, / 1956
okt. 22.”
[=
“Solid for your native country ...”]
Michel 16
The second version is an issue from 1958.
The difference to the original issue
is the size of the image: 21 x 17 mm instead of 22 x 18 mm.
Michel 1313 II
It is an airmail letter from Budapest,
Hungary to Paris, France. It was cancelled on April 2, 1957 and there is a
handwritten remark on the front side that says 6.4.57, maybe the arrival
date ?
To me it is a real beautiful cover.
