Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998
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After the annexation of north Hungary, on 7 January 1919 the Hungarian staff of the Kassa administration transferred to Miskolc, from where they operated as an administration branch. On 27 April, the Czech army crossed the demarcation line established at the peace talks and occupied Miskolc on 2 May. The administration branch was transferred to Budapest on 9 May. After talks between the Czechoslovak post office chief and the head of the Miskolc Post Office, the postal workers were allowed to continue working without taking a Czechoslovak oath of allegiance, but only under strict supervision: 3 censors monitored telephone operations and another 3 the post office service. In the battles to liberate the town, three postal companies of the Red Army played a part, and there are memorials to their heroism in Felsőzsolca, Onga and Gesztely. On 1 November 1920, after annexation of Upper Hungary, the administration branch was reclassified as a Post and Telegraph Office Administration under the directorship of Mihály Rákóczy. It was demoted back to branch status on 1 June 1924 and closed down completely on 30 June 1925, its area being attached to the Debrecen administration. In the area formerly covered by the Kassa administration, a post office administration branch was set up based in Miskolc in 1945, and raised to administration status in 1947. It was again attached to Debrecen in 1949, but restored as the Miskolc Post Office Administration in September 1950. The exhibition continues with the display of a small post office from the turn of the century, all the items having been collected from the Administration’s area and donated to the Post Horn Gallery. In the middle of the room some machines rarely seen by customers are displayed. The decorative pillars in the attic exhibition room show all of the Administration’s date stamps and a selection of first-day cover stamps. We asked all of our department heads to send in photographs of their post offices and staff, but many did not respond to the request, and so the gallery’s albums only has pictures of 98 post offices. In the final section of the exhibition we have installed some display cabinets containing personal memories of Administration staff, and a separate board expresses our respect for the work of postal historian Dr. Miklós Kamody. Gabriella Nikodém: Art and craftsmanship - Károly Vagyóczky’s stamp design exhibition The title “Art and Craftsmanship’’ comes from an article in the Károly Vagyóczky exhibition catalogue written by Professor Imre Kocsis, Head of Department at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts, and chosen as the title for the exhibition itself, is a fitting juxtaposition. Nothing better could express the essence of Károly Vagyóczky’s art. In stamp and banknote designs, in graphics where the purpose is very specific, how do we find the artist, the person who is trying to express himself? Precise, standard, correct graphic techniques, upholding every point of tradition, with lines that follow the academic rules of copper-plate engraving, obscure the individual, the special element. We must not approach Károly Vagyóczky’s work purely in its own terms. We must start out from the subject, the expression of the subject, and the compositional technique. This is what contains the extra something that distinguishes the craftsman from the artist. The perfect harmony is supplemented by a restrained, quiet lyricism, a discreet poetry, which makes 250
