Hungarian postage due stamps after World War II

[Rein]

Hungarian definitives are known to have many printings with quite some small differences in them. Some catalogues mention the size of the design to be reduced or the length of the designer's name. No catalogue dares to list the versions separately.

Let's start with the postage dues of 1958:



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[Rein]

What does Michel mean with „unterschiedlich lange Druckvermerken“ or the imprint? Clearly it is not about the printer but about the name of the designer: Légrády Sándor.

The small-sized stamps [filler values] have two different perforations: comb 15 of 1958 with 19/16 teeth hor./vert. and comb 12 of 1965 with 14/12 teeth hor./vert. This will not cause anyone a problem!

And neither does the simultaneous change in paper! From watermark Star to no watermark.

There are some other minor differences in paper that I will leave alone for now.

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[Rein]

The postage due stamps had been printed on a sheet-fed photogravure press in the State Printing House in Budapest. I.e. the orange background is whereas the value figures are in typography.

Usually in sheet-fed printing the direction of paper and the direction of printing should be orthogonal. However, the Budapest printers did not take much care in that respect. The direction of printing is decisive as it represents the position and orientation of the stamps on the printing cylinder. When the ink flows towards the left (or right) in the earlier printings and later on we see the direction changed to upwards (or downwards) it NECESSARILY means that new printing cylinders have been made!

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