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Posted 05/11/2016   8:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add bobone to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have this postcard WW1 era.. Has a message that was hidden behind the stamp..Anyone read Hungarian?? This was a way of getting messsages pass censors...





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Posted 05/16/2016   05:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add florian to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
bobone - Your card would stand a better chance if inscribed: Secret message in Hungarian behind stamp.

I hardly know two dozen words in Hungarian, certainly not more than two score, each one considered, but I happen to have an academic 1,880-page Hungarian-Czech dictionary in two large volumes, offered at a sale for 2 USD because of damaged binding and of interest to me owing to its summary of Hungarian grammar.

Given the circumstances, if it were not for the sprawling scrall in a language of over a hundred agglutinating suffixes of non-Indo-European origin, it would not be difficult to decipher the message.

Problems can be anylysed and solved - at a cost in terms of time required. The question is whether this is worth the effort. I spent most of my weekend's free time on it and here is the result of the challenge:

Cards with multilingual incriptions like that one were current in 1903 - 1906.

CDS: Hajdúböszörmény : NNW of Debrecen, Hungary.

Address:

Önagysága
To Madam
Lévay Margitka (affectionate for Margit = Margaret; the surname Lévay derives from the place name Léva = Levice, Slovakia)
urleánynak
young lady
Helyben
Locally
Polgári Leányiskola
Girls' Junior High School

Message:

Mint az édes Szept(ember) ---
Like the sweet September
.......
Mint a tavasz ibolyája
Like the springtime violet
Olyan édes olyan kedves
As sweet as dear
Legyen életednek Pólyája
Let life be kind and gentle to you
Édes Margitka nagyon meg-
Sweet Margitka, a lot of
köszönöm az rossz tekinket emléké
thanks for the reminder of the black look
..tét is köszönöm is most isk.......
....... and thanks as well now for .........
Kivánok ............... és Szinböl üdvözlöm Géza.
I wish ...................and from colour best regards Géza

Message behing stamp:

Édes Margit
Sweet Margit
czak sok nö-
just a lot of woman-
zet ne i...........
kind not ............
.... .......................
............hül
............ weaken
az .......................
that ...................
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Posted 05/16/2016   10:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kimo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think love messages were far more common than spy messages. Thanks to the exceptional work and his generous use of his weekend by Florian in translating this it appears that this is just a love message.
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Posted 05/16/2016   11:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGB to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Florian, great work!

Hahah! Do you think 'lot of woman' is a compliment?
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Posted 05/16/2016   12:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bobone to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Florian thanks for your help in solving this puzzle for me. ... You went out of your way and I appresiate it.. How would the person receiving this card know to look under the stamp? I know they arranged the stamp in certain ways (upside down etc,) either that or they knew before.. anyway thanks again...
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The lovers would simply tell each other to look under the stamps on their correspondence. Since they were using postcards such as this one they would not have wanted every postman to be able to read their true love messages.
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