Mi 875: Ajánlás on 24 f. purple Definitive Stamp: Famous Hungarian Women, wmk. X

Condition: mint never hinged (**).

Issued: 1st May 1946.

Catalogue Reference: Michel Europa Katalog Band 2: Mitteleuropa 2020 and A Magyar Bélyegek Kézikönyve (Handbook of Hungarian Stamps), Gondolat, Budapest, 1986.

Catalogue number(s): Mi 875.

Seller's Reference: please see SKU/Product Code.

Additional descriptive notes (if applicable): the stamp depicts St. Margaret (1242-1270).

Following the collapse of the Hungarian currency, during the hyperinflationary period that followed a number of postage stamps were overprinted with the name of the service for which they were intended and sold at the appropriate rate for that service on the day of sale. The rate for an 'ajánlás' (registered) letter on 1st May 1946, the day this stamp was issued, was 4,000,000 pengo. These stamps could only be used on inland mail.

Postage stamps can be found with the multiple Patriarch's cross within a shield watermark in two different positions. Hungarian specialist catalogues identify the two positions as watermark X A1 and A2. However, in order to identify the watermark position the stamp must display certain portions of the watermark design and thus it is not always possibe to confirm it. The watermark of the item in this sale is X, but it cannot be said whether it is A1 or A2.

General notes:

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A purchaser who wishes to buy one copy/set will be sure that the item/set that they receive will be the one displayed in the image on the sales page. Once that stamp/set is sold, the image shown on the site will be updated with an image of a sale that I still have in stock.

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