Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997
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Kőbánya bearing the misprints. One of these passed into the hands of the Austrian collector Dr Anton Jerger, who presented the cover in his book Frankaturen, mentioning the existence of a second copy in the same correspondence. The other copy has now surfaced in the collection made by Dr Károly Pákozdy. According to a pencilled note and family recollections, Dr Pákozdy probably bought it in 1943 for 20,000 pengő, along with a regular 5-krajcár cover. After the collector died in 1959, his heirs were unable to sell this world rarity. By 1997 they felt the time was ripe to auction it. A unique concentration of forces managed to keep for Hungary a cover that has importance for history in general and for postal and technical history. After an initiative by Bálint Magyar, minister of culture and education, and Károly Lotz, minister of transport, telecommunications and water management, a campaign was organized and financed by Béla Doros, managing director of the Hungarian Post PLC, and András Huszti, chairman of the Hungarian Development Bank. As a result, the misprint was deposited with the Stamp Museum on December 19, 1997. Erzsébet Angyal: The artistic background to Stamp Day stamps Stamp Day 1997 was a special occasion-the seventieth time this traditional gathering of philatelists had been held. As usual, it included the launch of the Stamp Day commemorative and a stamp exhibition. The Stamp Museum presented competitive entries prepared for Stamp Day stamps, from which stamps had never been made. This was intended to document the role of designers in choosing subjects during the stamp-issue process. The entries included several ‘multi-functional’ designs. Where the subjects were related, the designers were trying to combine the criteria of two competitions. The stamps issued show that the choice and adjudication covered the whole material. So there are cases where the picture on the stamp comes from one entry and the profile from another. There are also cases of an unsuccessful entry for a Stamp Day stamp becoming the basis for a later commission. The Post recognizes the special importance of Stamp Day stamps by entrusting their design to designers who have already proved they are real artists in this special field of miniaturized graphics. Though it is not a fixed rule, international tradition calls for Stamp Day stamps to be related in their subject-matter to the post and stamp collecting. The subjects of Hungary’s Stamp Day stamps have been extremely varied, and often unrelated to the occasion on which they are being issued. Although draft stamp designs remain the private property of the designers, the most successful entries, based on the jury’s verdict, have been bought by the Post and placed in the Stamp Museum. The display was selected from this material. Gabriella Nikodém: Designs by Zoltán Nagy For those attending the opening of an exhibition of stamp designs by Zoltán Nagy, the graphic designer and former artistic director of the Banknote Press, it was an occasion for celebration and remembrance. The display at the Stamp Museum marked 50 years since this great graphic artist began his career as a stamp designer and 10 years since he passed away. 253
