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The Sub-Carpathian Messenger – Number 17 (September 2011) Page: 1
The Sub-Carpathian Messenger
Newsletter of the Study Circle for the Postal History of the Carpatho-Ukraine
Number 17 – September 2011
A Hucul bagpiper (from the Galician side of the Carpathians)
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About us and the Newsletter The Study Circle is a loose group of persons who are interested in the postal (and general) history of the area known as Kárpátalja in Hungarian, as Podkarpatská Rus during the First Czechoslovak Republic, which had a short day of independence as Carpatho Ukraine, and later was integrated into the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union as the ‘Zakarpatskaja Oblast’. Since 1991 it is ЗАКАР-ПАТТЯ, the westernmost administrative district in the now independent Ukraine. The Newsletter came out of a meeting of a few collectors during the PRAHA 2008, its first number appeared in November 2008. We aim at producing at least four issues per year but cannot promise regular publication intervals. As we can see from the numbers at the DocStoc web site, this News-letter is read (on the average) by around 200 people. We are sorry to report that our valued member, Dr. Alexander Malycky of Calgary (Canada), has passed away in March 2011. Distribution method Since SCM #006 you can view and download each issue (including the “old” ones) from the Web address:
http://www.docstoc.com/profile/subcarpathian
For those who have no Internet access and/or no e-mail, the distribution method is still the same: you will receive a colour print-out by air/surface mail as you did in the past. Everybody can freely access the uploaded numbers of the Newsletter but the notification service for new numbers will be limited to the members of the Study Circle. So joining us still has some advantage. We send our warm welcome to DÁN János from Budapest (Hungary) and to Henning QVALE from Oslo (Norway) as new members and send our best wishes and kind regards to all members of the Study Circle. Rules and Regulations All articles in the Newsletter carrying the name of an author are the sole responsibility of this author and should not be taken to represent the common opinion of the Study Circle. Such articles are, if not marked otherwise, copyrighted by the respective author. Free use within the Study Circle is granted. We thank our authors for their much appreciated work and contribution. Participation in the Study Circle is not bound to a formal membership and does not include the duty to pay a membership fee. There is a moral obligation to support the Newsletter from time to time by sending some article, some interesting piece of information, some question, some answer or whatever. We strongly invite our dear members to do so because otherwise this Newsletter will not be able to keep its current level of numbers and pages. We will “print” everything even only loosely connected with our subject of interest so any contri-bution is certainly welcome. Please send it (as Word 2003 document, graphical elements in JPEG, 300 dpi) to our editor’s e-mail address ([email protected]). His postal address, if you would need it, is:
Dr. Helmut Kobelbauer, Untergrossau 81, A-8261 Sinabelkirchen, Austria / Europe
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Tønnes Ore Auction News Remarkable things are happening on the market for Carpatho-Ukraine items! Years and years have passed when really interesting items from our area were very rarely offered. But over the last year or two the picture has changed dramatically. Several large and important collections have been sold, either as a whole or as single lots. The second part of Mr. Cronin’s excellent collection was sold at Raritan Stamps, Inc. in USA in May this year. Some 80 lots were offered – 5 of them were large postal history accumulations, the others were single stamps, sets, or covers. Only a few examples can be cited here (prices given as ‘start price USD’/’realized USD’/’realized EUR’): Postal history accumulations: 8 pages of prephilatelic material (400/625/439), 48 pages from 1871-1919, very mixed, covers/cards/cutouts/single stamps (1000/2100/1474), 28 pages 1919-39 (600/2100/1474), 55 pages 1938-44 (2000/4000/2807), 20 pages 1946-82 (500/625/439). Many of the letters from 1945 were very philatelic, but a few genuinely mailed items should be mentioned: Letter with 60:3 NRZU stamp (Verleg 41)
dated 18.3.45 (150/800/561), letter with 60:30 NRZU stamp (Verleg 58) dated 20.3.45 (300/1500/1053). Some single NRZU stamps (all expertized): 4.00:2 P Horthy (Verleg 15) (2000/1900/1333), 60:6 postage due Wm 9 (Ver-leg 113a, 6 printed)
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(3000/3500/2456), set of 12 NRZU overprints on Chust ‘ČSP 1944’ (2000/2000/1404), three proof pairs of 100 ‘broken chain’ (400/650/456). And if that was not enough, in June the German auctioneer Christoph Gärtner offered a 16 page specialized collection of the May/July 1945 issues for 3500 EUR – sold for 3700. A collection of seven different NRZU overprinted stationery cards was sold for the starting price of 900 EUR.
At Dunafila in March, an unusual Távirat-lap from Berezna was sold for 85.000 HUF = 311 EUR. These cards were very rarely registered, and the placing on the front of the 3x1 Kr stamps (paying for the extra words in the telegram) was also irregular.
In Darabanth’s international auction in May, high prices were paid for material from the first Austrian (1850) issue. A cutout with 2+1+6 Kr cancelled Tisza-Ujlak went for no less than 280.000 HUF = 1023 EUR (start: 220.000).
A cover with 6+3 Kr from Ungvár (the 3 Kr was a margin piece with a plate flaw) went from 74.000 to 204.000 HUF = 745 EUR. And then the breaking news: Ron Zelonka’s outstanding Ukraine coll-ection, including Carpatho-Ukraine, will be sold at the next Corinphila auction in September! Please visit the Internet address www.corinphila.ch to have a look on the offered pieces.
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Helmut Kobelbauer Postal Agencies: Part 1 – Hungarian Administration (1900 – 1919) Collecting the postmarks from postal agencies is always a major challenge, and doubly so if you go for the postal agencies from the territory of the later Carpatho Ukraine. It is already not really easy to find out which postal agencies did exist and in which period they were active. There is a number of information sources but they do not always agree. Therefore I have taken on the task to at least collect and write down whatever information is available and clearly indicate the respective source so that you can decide for yourself. The sources I have used are (sorted by publication date): [M6] (Ed.) KOSTYÁN Ákos: »A Magyar Bélyegek Monográfiája«. Volume 6: A Magyar Postai-
gazgatás Bélyegzői 1867 – 1967. [Hungarian Stamps Monograph. Volume 6: Postmarks of the Hungarian Postal Administration 1867 – 1967]. Közlekedési Dokumentációs Vállalat, 1973.
[MZ] Michal ZIKA: »Poštovne na Zakarpatskej Ukrajine (1902 – 1944)«. [Postal Agencies in the Sub-Carpathian Ukraine (1902 – 1944)]. In »Filatelistické State 21«, Bratislava, 1987, pp. 121 – 152.
[SB] SIMÁDY Béla: »Kárpátalja Postatörténete« [Postal History of the Sub-Carpathian Area]. MABÉOSZ, Budapest, 1991.
[MS] MÁRFAI Árpád, SZÉP Endre: »Magyarország postahivatalainak és postaügynökségeinek hely-, keletbélyegzései (1871 – 1920)«. [The Postmarks of the Hungarian Post Offices and Postal Agencies (1871 – 1920)]. Cerberus Kft., Budapest, 1995.
[GT] Petr GEBAUER, Jozef TEKEĽ (and Michal ZIKA): »České a Slovenské Poštovny / České a Slovenské Poštovne (1900 – 1958)« [Czech and Slovak Postal Agencies (1900 – 1958)]. Merkur, Brno – Bratislava, 2005.
[JV] Jan VERLEG: »Carpatho Ukraine«. Postal History and Stamps 1786 – 2000. Vereniging voor Tsjechoslowakije Filatelie (The Netherlands), 2nd enlarged edition, 2008.
[HL] HORVÁTH Lajos: »Hírközlés és posta Kárpátalján 1918-ig« [Communications and Mails in the Kárpátalja until 1918]. Nyírtelek, 2008.
As for the involved hamlets and villages I have, of
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Remark: As this village was separated into a northern part (today in Ukraine) and a southern part (today in Romania), it is certainly a border case for the rules of Dr. Simády Béla; we consider it part of the Carpatho Ukraine because Dr. Simády did so himself.