introduction

the stamps of hungary

The history of Hungarian stamp issues and ofthe stamps conasidered as Hungarian can’t be separated from the history of Hungary.

austrian postal administration in hungary

The Austrian stamps issues from 1^st June, 1850 to 30^th April, 1867 were also placed in circulation in Hungary, then an Austrian province. These stampa when used for franking on the territory of that time Hungary, belond first of all to Hungarian stamp collections, though the Austrian collectors of these issues include - for reasons easy to guess at – also those with Hungarian cancellationin their collection,

Hungarian postal afministration

the character of Hungary ended with the compromise witr Austria in 1867, hereby the way opened before theindependent activity of the Hungary Post. The new stamps of Hungary which identical with those of Austria, were made by the Stae Ppinting of Austria and put into circulastion by the Postal Adminstration of Hungary on 1^st June, 1867. They could be used be for postage till 31^st July, 1871.

the first home produced stamps, the so called “lithographed” and “engraved” sets were issused by the Hungarian Post on 1^st May, 1871.

Local issues

After the Padua agreement of 3^rd November, 1918 closing the First World War and the Belgrade armistice areement of 13^th November, 1918, the occupation of certain Hungarian territories began. During this period an omportant quantity of the Hungarian stamps issued earlier were overprinted in order to indicate partly the tariff increase, increase, partly the national status.

A part of Western Hungary was annexed to Austria by the Peace Teaty of Trianon. On the evacuted area the Hungarian irregular troops established a new republic called “Lajtbánság” and issued stamps.

The provisional stamps issued in Nyíregyháza and the stamps overprinted in Abony have a connection with the war events of the Second World War.

During the revolution in 1956 a part of the stamps stock of the Post Office Sopron No. 1. was overprinted.

watermarks

The Hungarian postage stamps were printed on a paper without watermark till 1881. Between the years 1881 and 1961 they were printed on a paper with watemark. The watemarks are assigned the serial numbers I – XIII.Beginning with 1962 the Hungarian stamps have been printed on paper without watemark.

Perforation

First the Hungarian stamps were produced with harrow-perforation but as eaely as from 1874 on line-perforation was used and only souvenir sheets were perforated by harrow afterwards. Beginning with 1906 practically only comb-perforation has been applied.