Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1997

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To the Postal Museum

• Ferenc Orbán, an outstanding philatelist and postal historian resident in Denmark, presented 16 postal maps and 85 map reproductions for the collection of documents. His earlier donations prompted the museum to establish a distinct Ferenc Orbán archive-unit.

• Dr Lajos Makláry and Dr Valéria Baranyai Makláry (through the good offices of Mária Csávás) added some important documents, from the estate of Dr Lajos Hencz, to the collection of certificates and documents.

• The Training Centre at Matáv PLC’s Szeged Service Centre presented some telephone and telegraph-transmission, telegraph exchange-testing and teleprinter equipment, along with some overhead line-construction materials.

• The Erzsébet Telephone Exchange of Matáv's Pest Telecommunications Directorate donated some Rotary 7A2-system switch frames and some trunk-testing and inspection tables.

• The Real Estate Directorate of Matáv PLC augmented the collection of objects by donating a local-battery III/25-type hand-operated telephone exchange and local-battery 37-type telephone receivers.

• First Hungarian Telephone Cable Ltd formally presented several art works relating to the cable network: a group of allegorical statues in Herend porcelain by György Vas- tagh Jr, an oil painting by Ferenc Mácsai, a woodcarving of cable-drawing workers by Gyula Kiss, and three jubilee tableaux of photographs. The company also provided the collection on telephone history with some typical hand tools for cable laying and installation, and some other tools and cable-technology instruments.

• On his retirement, Dr Ferenc Morvay, head of department at Hungarian Post headquarters, presented a Viennese desk made in 1824 and an alabaster clock—once the property of László Szép, head of department at the Budapest Postal Directorate.

• László Horváth Egri, a member of the museum staff, presented a woven silk mural of English make.

• László Binder, Mrs Gusztáv Esztergályos, Mrs János Gyalay, Csaba Horváth, Erzsébet Horváth, Mrs Lajos Kiss, Dr György Lombai, Mrs Ernő Valló and Sándor Kusnyir donated radio and television sets.

• Ottó Molnár, a graphic artist with Hungarian Radio PLC, presented some applied graphics for the picture and drawing collection.

Exhibitions

By the Stamp Museum

• Fairy-Tale Figures and Depictions of Children, the Arrival of the Hungarians, and Flowers of Five Continents, on Hungarian and Foreign Stamps: Miskolc, Children’s Gallery, Youth and Recreation House. March 26 to April 17.

• Flowers of Five Continents on Stamps: Budapest, Hungarian National Museum, May Museum Celebrations. May 17 and 18.

• Post Sent by Zeppelin Airships: Nyíregyháza, András Jósa Museum. April 15 to June 8.

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