INTRODUCTION
TO HUNGARIAN PHILATELY
1918-1921
Overprints
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During the
Romanian Military Occupation of Hungary, April 1919 - March
1920 the following overprints were used:
The 1st Debrecen issue (Debrecen is a city)
(in use from November 21, 1919 until the beginning of March
1920). The overprint was oval reading "ZONA DE OCUPATIE
/ PTT-FF / 1919 / ROMÂNA" (Occupation Zone / 1919
/ Romania / abbreviation for Post, Telephone and Telegraph Service
+ the Monogram of King Ferdinand). There are 108 overprinted
stamps with another 18 bearing a variety of the overprint which
was never circulated. See in Fig.11 an example of a circulated
postcard. There are also 3 envelopes and 1 postcard (all overprinted
Hungarian stationary) issued on November 20, 1919 - less than
100 pieces of each!
The 2nd Debrecen issue (in use from December
23, 1919 until March 20, 1920). These had round overprints "ROMANIA
/ PTT-FF / 1919 / ZONA DE OCUPATIE". There are 22 stamps
(plus another 12 stamps on two varieties of paper), 7 Charity
and 5 Porto stamps in existence. Very probably the Debrecen
II stamps were not allowed to be franked. Near all items with
these stamps are either philatelic (CTO) or with the stamps
being used as additions (something like a label) (see Fig. 12)
The author has seen items that have been through the mails with
only the 2nd Debrecen issue as adhesives. However, these were
marked "T" and received postage due treatment on arrival,
presumably being considered not franked. However an exception
of a cover which seems to be correctly circulated can be seen
in Fig.13.
But the ’Debrecen’ issues are scarce on mail.
REFERENCE: http://membres.lycos.fr/dgrecu/OcH.html
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