1950.HUN.01International Child's Day
Hungary·1950
International Child's Day — 60 fillér youth camp
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1950.HUN.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Hungary (HUN)
- Year
- 1950-06-04
- Event
- International Child's Day — 60 fillér youth camp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- Nagy Zoltán
- Printer
- State Printing Works, Budapest
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12 × 12½ (also imperforate)
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 950.36
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- HU 899
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- HU 1104
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- HU 956
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- HU 1117a
History
On 4 June 1950 Hungary issued a five-value commemorative set for International Child's Day, designed by Nagy Zoltán and printed in photogravure at the State Printing Works in Budapest. The 60 fillér shows a smiling boy in a peaked side cap beside a row of ridge tents, a flagpole and a line of children, with MAGYAR POSTA and the face value along the foot. Comb 12 × 12½, 44 × 33 mm, on paper watermarked with multiple five-pointed stars. About 4,401,000 copies of the 60 fillér were printed.
The 60 fillér first carried a different slogan along the top band; that wording was withdrawn and the issued stamp is inscribed SZABAD HAZÁBAN BOLDOG IFJÚSÁG — happy youth in a free homeland. The same design exists imperforate.