Postage Stamps of Hungary

by Tony Clayton

Kingdom of Hungary

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The first postage due stamps of Hungary were with black numerals and the crown in circle watermark and were issued on 1st November 1903. There were nine values from 1 to 100 filler, with the most common perforation being 11¾x12 comb. All except the 100 filler can also be found with line perforation 11½.

This is a particularly difficult set to find, a mint set catalogues at about £200 and the line perf set at £1200.

The same design was used when the watermark changed to a 3-dimensional crown in 1905-6. This time the 11¾x12 perforation changed to perf.15 with the earlier perforation being very scarce.

In 1908-14 the watermark was changed yet again to to a 2-dimensional crown, retaining perf.15.

Finally, in 1914, a new watermark of a completely different appearance was used, with a representation of St.Stephens Cross joined by wavy lines. This occurs both sideways and, less commonly, upright for 5 of the 8 values. Thus it can be seen that no less than 5 different watermarks are to found, which along with perforation changes cause the collector some entertainment in trying to sort them all out.

Fourth Watermark, Perf 15, black numerals

1 filler SG D170A	2 filler SG D171A	5 filler SG D172A
6 filler SG D173A	10 filler SG D174A	12 filler SG D175A
20 filler SG D176A	50 filler SG D177A

Fourth Watermark, Perf 15, Red Numerals (1st May 1915, 15f and 30f 1st January 1918)

The design remained the same, but the numeral(s) were now in red. Further valus of this set were added during the Regency in 1922.

1 filler SG D190	2 filler SG D191	5 filler SG D192
6 filler SG D193	10 filler SG D194	12 filler SG D195
15 filler SG D196	20 filler SG D197	50 filler SG D198

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