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Hungarian Illetek?

 
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Posted 06/24/2011   2:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add jamesw to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I was rifling through an old cigar box I use to keep junk stamps (those that are torn, worn and generally in bad shape) when I came across this stamp that I figured is Hungarian. Then I realized it does not say Magyar, or any other country name.
It is canceled, and the denomination is 30 filler, which is what led me to believe it is Hungarian. It is very much in the style of the late 1940s photogravure stamps of that country.
The top does have perfs, but they are harshly folded over, and because the paper is very thin and crisp I'm leery of trying to unfold them and risk wrecking it further. Its condition was probably why it ended up in the box.
A quick google translation tells me illetek means fee.
Some sort of revenue?
Perfs appear to be 12 1/2 X 12 1/4
Any ideas? Can't find it in Scott's.


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Romania
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Posted 06/24/2011   2:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Wadmalatz to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, it`s an official (fee)stamp, issued 01.08.1946. Should have wmk (IX). 16 values (fillér and forint were introduced in 01.08.1946 instead of the fillér and pengõ). In Hungarian stamp catalogues minimal CV.
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Posted 06/24/2011   2:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Wadmalatz. Interesting. Don't collect Hungary, but may be worth rescuing from the junk box, despite minimal value.
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Australia
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Posted 06/24/2011   9:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Not seen that one before, and I collect Hungary.
Thanks for posting.

Good thread title as well, well done you.
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Posted 03/07/2015   12:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
jamesw...Was looking at a bunch of stamps like you did..I don't collect Hungary stamps to say, but this must be part of the set you were looking at...I also noticed a lot of RED lines in the design as the blue arrows show, guess this is part of the design...Very funny serrations on the left side of the stamp to...

Robert





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