Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
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printers, the State Press and the Banknote Press. This means that the study also provides information about the history of printing technology. Erzsébet Angyal: A New Special Collection Mrs Elaine Arundel, an English philatelist, founder member of the Hungarian Philatelic Society of Great Britain, and member of the Hungarian Philatelic Scientific Society, is a distinguished collector of philatelic documents from the period of Hungarian hyperinflation, after the Second World War. Many years of determined work and considerable financial outlay have resulted in a collection rich enough, and based on so profound a knowledge of the period, that she has won with it the most prestigious prizes at international stamp festivals. Through the Clive Foundation, she offered the collection to the Stamp Museum. After the deed of gift had been solemnly signed on May 6, 1995, the bequest became the Museum’s latest special collection. It is being preserved and made available to researchers, and it will feature, as a whole or in part, at exhibitions in the future, in line with the donor’s wishes. Arranged according to the changes in postal rates, the collection of used material documents every important aspect of the inflationary period between May 1, 1945 and July 31,1946. Where possible, every kind of posted item has been included for each tariff period. There are plenty of items posted on the first or last day of each period, correctly stamped, or in some cases incorrectly stamped, through ignorance or for some other reason. The accurate descriptions of the items in the collection make plain the special characteristics of each (censorship, cash franking, etc.), and the system of a ‘period of grace’, as it was called, in which postage due was waived wholly or in part for varying periods for items collected from letter boxes or posted according to the previous tariff. We thank Mrs Arundel for having benefited the Museum, and thereby those visiting our exhibitions and researching our collections. Júlia Kisfaludi: Chronicle of Postal History, 1901-1918 The second part of the Chronicle was compiled by direct selection from the more important regulations, orders and announcements in the Postai és Távírdái Rendeletek Tára (Gazette of Postal and Telegraph Regulations), without card-indexing them first. The period covered contains some decisive historical events. Surprisingly, such developments as the outbreak of the First World War are not mentioned directly in the gazette. However, they can be deduced from the regulations issued, so much so that the course of the war in the country and at the front shows up on an almost daily basis. This proves the Hungarian Royal Post to have been an institution so stable that nothing could stop it operating and performing its various tasks, and one able to adjust with maximum speed and flexibility to changing circumstances. The next section of the Chronology is likely to cover the period between the world wars. 299
