Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2003-2004

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collections offered as a part of the permanent exhibition. Others of these objects are only rarely shown. These special-event postmarks, stamp designs, and sketches are generally displayed as parts of temporary exhibits. Still others go on display even less often due to space constrictions. Many of them involve tools used to print stamps and we hope to be able to show them once the exhibition has been reorganised. The documents pertaining to stamp making are not spectacular and are stored in the museum’s document archives. Nevertheless, there are times when they go on show as part of certain thematic exhibitions. The author presents the five current collections of artefacts and documents within the Stamp Museum, spotlighting certain typical items.

Attila Szabó: Documents in the Postal Museum from the period of military reprisal, connected to the Imperial and Royal Postal Coach Directorate

There is very little processed source material available on the reorganisation of imperial public administration between June and November of 1849, the final phase of the aborted War of Independence. This is even more true for the postal organisation. Source materials, written in un-grammatical Hungarian and foreign languages during the period of reprisal and absolutism are not sufficiently attractive to inspire research. The Postal Museum does not even have a significant number of documents from this period. Nevertheless, there are a few interesting documents on the postal organisation among the main post office administration documents that have survived. The author presents several of these. They include postmaster briefings on the intentions with which postal services were resumed in the towns of Vörösvár, Dorog, Igló, and Neszmély, a receipt for supports from the Imperial and Hungarian ministry from the town of Körmend, the first decree and instructions for using rail services on the Pest-Szolnok line, and instructions for regular use of the railway for postal deliveries.

Dr. Erika Garami: Post Office money management, reflected in two 19,h century documents

Money management by the post office consists of two parts. One concerns inflow in remuneration for postal services and the other involves money turned over to it for delivery to others. Sending money from one place to another following the wars with the Ottoman Empire (ending in about 1686) and the Rákóczi War of Independence (1703-1711) was in part, done privately, and in part was controlled from Vienna. Post office and monetary interests were under the control of the royal court. In 1722, the post office was taken over by the state to promote the country’s public administration and financial interests. The author focuses on two German language documents, a list of fees for postal services dating from 1818, and specifications on the use of postal coaches dating from 1838, to present the diligence vehicles as a means of sending money in the 19th century. It also offers detailed information on fees and how they were determined, on detailed security measures and rules, and on descriptions of how postal coaches were robbed.

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