Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998

Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven

• The Stamp Museum continued its audited inventories of the classic Hungarian and the African and Asian stamp collections.

• Display of the post-1987 stamps of European and American countries commenced.

• The audited inventory of the Hungarian collection of first-day covers and commemorative postcards was completed.

Accessions to the Stamp Museum

Hungarian stamps

58 997

Foreign stamps

40 788

Mixed collections

9 492

Stamp designs and drafts

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Library

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Accessions to the Postal Museum

Collection of objects

2 744

Document collection

1 698

Library

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Main donations

To the Stamp Museum

• The heirs of the designer Ádám Cziglényi donated the artist’s exhibition materials to the Stamp Museum.

• Tibor Szokody, Ferenc Orbán and Béla Doms donated first-day covers.

• Lajos Mocsári donated 2400 stamps with corporate perforations, mounted in albums, and a tum-of-the-century casket decorated with stamps.

To the Postal Museum

• The Telecommunications Superintendency placed in the Museum collection a Robur FUM-12 type detector van in working order.

• Hungarian Television PLC presented a Colour V outdoor-broadcast van for the exhibition at the Radio and Television Museum in Diósd.

• Matáv PLC Sopron Directorate dismantled and presented to the Museum the telecommunications cable hut at the Albertkázmérpuszta frontier post. After conservation, this will be displayed in the yard outside the Postal Museum at Nagyvázsony.

Exhibitions

By the Stamp Museum

• The Philatelic Relics of the 1848 Revolution and War of Independence. Opened on March 13 at the Stamp Museum, and on October 8 in the Rezső Soó Memorial Room at the Diligence Exhibition Hall in Debrecen.

• Museum Masterworks on Hungarian Postage Stamps. Opened on March 31 at the Museum of Applied Arts.

• The Philatelic Documents of the 1848 Revolution and War of Independence. Opened on April 10 at the international stamp exhibition held in the Museum of Military History.

• Commemorative Postmarks Connected with Events in Győr. Opened on May 25 in the János Xantus Museum.

• Olimpiafila ‘98 Budapest. The first sketches for the first set of Hungarian sports stamps

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