| ISSUES
OF THE MONARCHY
Nos.
47-66
TYPE: A 4, A 5
ISSUED: January 1, 1900
PROCESS: Engraved
PERF: 11½, 12 x 11½
PAPER: Watermarked crown in circle over four stamps
DESIGNER: (A4) Johann Bohm
DESIGNER: (A5) Edmund (Odon) Tull
PURPOSE: New monetary values necessitated new stamps.
100 filler equals 1 korona
DESIGN: (A4) A turul soaring over the Hungarian crown.
(The mythical bird of the Magyars).
(A5) Emperor Franz Joseph wearing the Hungarian crown.
NOTES:
The 1, 2, 3, 5, 20 and 1 kr are known to exist in horizontal
pairs, imperf between; the 3-20 and 1 kr. are known to
exist imperf all around.
If you are interested in the watermarks, the paper on
which the 1900 issue was printed was obtained from a paper
manufacturing plant located in the town of Nagyszlabos.
The watermark, consisting of intersecting circles each
containing a St. Stephen's crown, appears throughout the
sheet. The circles are 441½ to 46 mm. in diameter.
A star appears in every third space formed by the intersecting
circles. This star is the trade mark of the paper manufacturer.
Underneath, and in the next row of spaces of the intersecting
circles, there appears the Roman numeral IV. This is the
mark of the quality of the paper. The quality and trade
watermarks appear in four places in each sheet of 100
stamps. The position of the watermark depends upon the
method used to feed the paper into the press. Four different
positions may exist. These positions can be determined
from the position of the small cross on top of the crown
and the numeral IV.
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