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THE NEWS OF HUNGARIAN PHILATELY _____________________________________________________________ Volume: 38 / Number: 2 April – June 2007 _____________________________________________________________ CONTENTS: Page 1 The President’s Corner by H. Alan Hoover 2 Kudos and Welcome 2 The Society for Hungarian Philately at Chicagopex by Csaba L. Kohalmi 2 Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Died 50 Year Ago 3 What Did It Take to Purchase Stamps During the Hyperinflation? by Csaba L. Kohalmi 12 Addition to the Table of 1918 Airmail Registry Label Numbers 13 The 1919 Kolozsvár/Cluj - Nagyvárad/Oradea Overprints and the Flight of the Turul Bird from Legend into Postal History by László Szegedi 18 Thank You to the Members of the Society by Alan Soble 18 What I Saw on EBay by Csaba L. Kohalmi 20 The Editor’s Notes by Csaba L. Kohalmi 21 2006 New Issues 22 2007 New Issues 23 Continuation of the SHP Exhibit from Washington 2006 prepared by Csaba L. Kohalmi Back Cover: The 1921 Villány Provisional from the Collection of Dr. Ferenc Nagy Hungarian Folk Customs definitive stamps SOCIETY FOR HUNGARIAN PHILATELY 1920 Fawn Lane, Hellertown, PA 18055-2117 USA Published Quarterly / Copyright 2007 SOCIETY FOR HUNGARIAN PHILATELY 1920 Fawn Lane Hellertown, PA 18055-2117 USA Established 1969 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ APS Affiliate 34 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ President: H. Alan Hoover, e-mail: [email protected] Vice-President: Robert B. Morgan, [email protected] Treasurer: Wes Learned, [email protected] P.O. Box 802, Powell, WY 82435-0802 USA Secretary: Jim Gaul, [email protected] 1920 Fawn Lane, Hellertown, PA 18055-2117 USA Directors-at-large: Stephan I. Frater, M.D., [email protected] Ted Johnson, [email protected] Sales Circuit Manager: H. Alan Hoover, [email protected] 6070 Poplar Spring Drive, Norcross, GA 30092 Newsletter Editor: Csaba L. Kohalmi, [email protected] 910 Claridge Ct., Indianapolis, IN 46260-2991 USA Newsletter Publisher: Chris Brainard, [email protected] Auction Chairperson: Emmerich Vamos, [email protected] 8722 Belladona Road, Riverside, CA 92508 USA SHP Web-site: http://www.hungarianphilately.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Society for Hungarian Philately (SHP) is a non-profit organization chartered under the laws of the State of Connecticut and is devoted to the study of every aspect of Hungarian philately. SHP publishes a quarterly newsletter in March, June, September, and December. Manuscripts for pub- lication may be sent to the Society’s address listed above. The articles published herein represent the opinions of the individual authors and the content is not to be construed as official policy of this Society or any of its officers. All publication rights reserved for SHP. Articles from this journal may be reprinted with the written permission of the Editor and the authors only. Back is- sues of the newsletter may be purchased for $3.00, postpaid, (when available). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Annual membership dues are $18 ($19 if paid by Paypal) for members whose addresses are in the United States. For members residing in all other countries, the dues are $25 ($26 if paid by Paypal). Dues are payable in January in advance for the calendar year. Payment of dues entitles members to receive the newsletter, to participate in the sales cir- cuit and the quarterly auctions, and to exercise voting rights. Send dues payments to: The Treasurer, P.O. Box 802, Powell, WY 82435-0802 USA. Paypal payment may be made to [email protected]. This issue closed on 6 May 2007 The next issue will close 1 August 2007 The News of Hungarian Philately THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER by H. Alan Hoover With most of the spring flowers about gone here in the Deep South, thoughts turn to mowing lawns, house painting and stamp shows. Guess which one will get my attention first? There’s a small show here in town this weekend; I think I will go and get my enthusiasm started for the stamp season! As reported in another article herein, we are actively making the final plans for our show in November. This will be a bit of a change but hopefully enjoyable with our sister societies in attend- ance too. Chicagopex (http://www.chicagopex.com) is slated as the Pan Slavic show this year. Alt- hough Hungary isn’t considered a Slavic nation, we have similar interests with these societies and that’s another reason why we are attending. Although it is still six months in the future, by the time you read this exhibit frames should be closed, hotel rooms will be hard to find and final preparations will be in place. See Csaba’s article and check the next issue which will be out right before the show. I do recommend you consider making hotel reservations now, as some of them are filling as we speak due to the other societies booking the rooms too. Please note: if you find an enclosed single page notice regarding delinquent membership dues, this will be the last issue of the newsletter you will receive. Kindly take a moment and write out that small check. We are still one of the lowest annual fees of philatelic societies, so you don’t miss out on a single issue. Talking about issues, I have compiled the latest volume of the “bound edition” newsletter that comprises the new format. It should be back from the binder soon, so if you would like one, watch the next issue for ordering instructions and availability information. Candidates for office of our parent society, the American Philatelic Society (APS), are cur- rently flooding members’ mailboxes with solicitations supporting or mud-slinging the other officer candidates. They tout the huge cost increases due to their new location initiated by some of the can- didates, blah, blah, blah… Can you tell I hate politics?!?! Although every organization has problems and ours is no exception, there are certain wonderful traits of the APS which we, as a unit of the APS, also strive to uphold. Honesty, ethics, and taking action to warn the membership when a member does not live up to the written standards of the organization is what we subscribe to and uphold as one of our key reasons for existence. For many issues now, our editor Csaba has authored a What I Saw on eBay column outlining some of the rarities and some of the “buyer beware” items offered for sale. In the last issue, the arti- cle focused on a stamp the 1956 Sopron issue overprint that would have been a real rarity IF it had been genuine. This item was offered by an SHP member who is also a stamp dealer from Hungary. After much dialog with the Executive Board, I as your president wrote to this member (for the second time in the past 5 years) about his offering of the stamp that was backed as genuine because it was “signed” on the back by supposedly two experts. The item was purchased by another SHP member. I received a written reply to my letter from the dealer and I distributed it to the Executive Board. Although the explanation was written to be a “politically correct answer,” while the dealer admitted the Sopron issue was not his area of expertise, he fell short in his explanation by failing to offer a full refund to the purchaser if so requested or if the item was proven to be a fake. As such, it is my position as President of this organization to reprimand this dealer/member in my column and identify to our membership that the “signed” guarantees, such as this one, has also been faked too. (See the current What I Saw on EBay article on page 18.) If this dealer does not uphold the same standards as we and stand by the principles of honesty, then he does not belong in our membership. It is our job to warn you the membership of such actions and let you make your own decision on wheth- er to continue to trust such offerings or not. Although this is a controversial action, it is a necessary step in our continual pursuit to protect you our membership and philately in general from the efforts of those that just try to take advantage of the uninformed. Be alert – if you come across a Hungarian item for sale and don’t know if it could be considered a fake or not, bring it to our attention and we will give you a recommendation if we can. Guess that’s all for this column – and as always Ray, we will ‘Keep stampin’. April-June 2007 1 The News of Hungarian Philately KUDOS AND WELCOME Congratulations to our members for their achievements in exhibiting. At the APS Ameri- Stamp Expo, Lyman Caswell received the following: Prix d’Honneur for the single frame exhibit The 1953 Commemorative Postage Due Stamps of Hungary; vermeil for the single frame exhibit Hungarian Postage Dues: The Post-World War I Inflation, 1920-1926; and a gold and the American Philatelic Congress medal for the multi-frame exhibit Alexander Humbolt. Alfred F. Kugel won the following awards at the AmeriStamp Expo: Prix d’Honneur for three single frame exhibits Austria- Hungary’s Danube River Flotilla in World War I, Australian Contingents in the Anglo-Boer War, and Scandinavian Volunteers in Finland during the Winter War; and a vermeil for the single frame exhibit Austria-Hungary’s Vistula River Flotilla in World War I. Robert Jensen received a silver and a APS Research award for Hungarian Aerogrammes at Texpex. A note to our non-USA members: Please let us know when and where you have exhibit- ed, what awards you have received, and the title of your exhibit. We would like to publish the awards that you have earned! Welcome to our newest member, Mr.