Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1999-2000

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immediately placed in the museum’s collection, meaning that they become museum pieces the moment they are issued.

The Stamp Museum’s collection is made up of three major parts: the core collection, the special collections, and the library.

The core collection includes all the stamps of the world, catalogued by continent and then by country, using France’s Yvert-et-Tellier catalogue to group them. This collection is a part of our permanent exhibit. The Hungarian collection is fuller than this for it includes original sketches, original graphics, test prints in varying colours, finalised proofs, printing implements, examples taken from the successive phases of the printing process, and special cancellation marks. In addition, the collection includes first day covers, specially designed post cards, envelopes with imprinted stamps, other philatelic artifacts, and official and unofficial documents. The core collection contains unique and unmatched items by any standards, some of which have been portrayed in this Yearbook.

The special collections are quite diverse. They have, and continue to, become part of the museum collection of special subjects through purchases, gifts, or legacies. They are displayed in conformity with the concepts of the original owners or collectors, and are treated as separate and complete collections. The special collections are numbered consecutively using Roman numerals, or if gifts, are labelled with the name of the collector for both inventory and public display.

The International Telecommunications Union (UIT) special collection was designed to mark the 100,h anniversary of the UIT, and consists of the commemorative stamps and sheets issued by the member nations to mark the occasion, collected into an album by the Universal Postal Union and presented to the Stamp Museum as a gift. The Rezső Soó special collection is the largest, most significant, and most valuable of all, and has been in the museum since 1980. The László Surányi collection, the newsletters of the well-known Hungarian philatelist and president-for-life of the Scientific Society of Hungarian Philatelists was in part a donation, and in part a Stamp Museum purchase. In 2000, Zsolt Debreceni presented the museum with 560 exhibition announcements, which include the actual stamps appearing on the posters designed to advertise international stamp exhibits. Our newest treasure is an album that was offered to the museum by Belgian philatelist Jan Palmans, which contains the perforated sheet designs of all lithographed and engraved stamps issued in 1971. Palmans was the first person to research this subject, producing results of continuing value. The pages of his album have already been displayed within the Scientific Society of Hungarian Philatelists Salon show that was part of the Hunifilex International Stamp Exhibition. As of 1 January 2000, the Stamp Museum library contained 2,945 specialised volumes and 1,550 periodicals.

This year the Stamp Museum museologists are presenting the following collections:- Gabriella Nikodém: The Stamps of Europe- Anna Mária Szőts Petrényi: Stamps of African and Asian Nations- Alexandra Halász: Stamps of the Nations of America- Alexandra Halász: Stamps of Australia and the Pacific Island Countries- Erzsébet Angyal: Hungarian Stamp Graphics and Graphic Art Collection- Gabriella Nikodém: Stamp Manufacturing Technologies and Printing Tools- Erzsébet Angyal: The Library’s Supplementary Collections

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