Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997

Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven

Work on the collections

Accessions to the Stamp Museum Hungarian stamp collection

82 003 40 788 69 456

Foreign stamp collections Mixed collections Stamp designs and drafts Library

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Accessions to the Postal Museum Collection of objects- of which: seals Document collection Library

• The audited inventory of objects in the collection of telecommunications history was completed. At the same time, some 1500 stored items were packed in cardboard cartons and taken to the new store.

• Computerization of the Postal Museum’s inventory books continued.

• During the audit at the Stamp Museum, new persons were placed in charge of the collection of foreign first-day covers (5261 items) and that of foreign commemorative covers, commemorative postmarks etc. (450 items).

• The audited inventory and transfer of the collection of classic Hungarian stamps began in May.

• Expansion of the foreign material in the permanent stamp exhibition, begun in 1987, was completed during the year. The display now covers European stamps up to 1994 and stamps of Asia, Australia and Oceania up to 1991.

Donations

To the Stamp Museum

• Hilka Ivenpoli, a Finnish visitor, sent a gift of Finnish first-day covers.

• Attila Dobó gave an itemized collection of roll stamps issued in 1963.

• Uwe Konst forwarded gifts via the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Munich: several auction catalogues, a run of the specialist journal Deutsche Briefmarkenzeitung, and the book Treasury of Stamps by David Lindman and H. Landshoff (New York, 1976).

• László Kozák, Deputy Managing Director of Hungarian Post PLC, presented philatelic items and stamps he had received as gifts, and 104 vast postcards (110 by 75 cm) to which altogether 69,216 stamps were attached in a ‘Break a Stamp Record for Zebras’ campaign.

• The heirs to a matchless collection of Hungarian newspaper and newspaper-duty stamps made by the late László Surányi, Permanent Honorary President of Mafitt (the Hungarian Philatelic Scientific Society), offered the collection for sale to the museum. The widow offered free of charge the half of the collection due to her. The other heirs requested 1 million forints as the estimated value of the other half. The purchase was to be made out of the accumulated interest on the capital of the Clive Foundation.

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