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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 eleventh part (November), a
stamp from Hungary.
If you have any interesting covers or other material to
enrich this site, please let me know.
Gunter
Volleyball stamp number 17 of this presentation comes from Hungary. The stamp was originally issued on June 6, 1953 (see ITEM OF THE MONTH JUNE 2006), and then overprinted in 1956 and re-issued on Octiber 29, 1956. It 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.
In October 1956 during the rebellion, 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 stamp, and these were not distributed.
It is supposed to have been valid for postage until 1957 01 25.
So far I was not able to buy this stamp, and even less so an envelope with usage of it.
