Hungary
2016
"Hungary’s Geological Treasures"
Issue Date |
23.02.2016 |
ID |
Michel: Scott:
Stanley Gibbons: Yvert:
UPU: Category: pF |
Designer |
Jakša
Vlahović, BA,
Graphic Artist
Kálmán Székely with support of Hungarian
Natural
History Museum |
Stamps in set |
3 |
Value |
HUF 115 - Daphnogene polymorpha
HUF 145 - Raskyavetusta
HUF 600 - Glyptostrobus europaeus |
Size (width x height) |
40mm x 30 mm, block size 90mm x 60mm |
Layout |
Sheets of 50 and a block of 1 stamp |
Products |
FDC x2 |
Paper |
gummed postage stamp paper |
Perforation |
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Print Technique |
Offset
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Printed by |
Pénzjegynyomda Zrt.
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Quantity |
200,000 stamp sets, 80,000 blocks |
Issuing Authority |
Magyar Posta
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On June 8,
2016 Hungarian Post Authority (Magyar Posta ) issued the set
of two stamps and a block stamp on the theme of Hungary’s
geological treasures. Face value of these stamps are:: HUF 115
(domestic non-priority standard letter or postcard); HUF 145 (domestic
priority standard letter or postcard); HUF 600 (domestic priority letter up to 500 g)
The design of the block features Late Miocene swamp cypresses
from Bükkábrány, while the fossil of a member of the laurel
family from Ipolytarnóc and Early Oligocene plants from Óbuda appear on
the denominations of the set. The latter shows a specimen of the fossil
species Raskya vetusta in
honour of the eminent
Hungarian palaeobotanist Dr Klára
Rásky (1908-1971). An
interesting aspect of the
designs is that the
graphic artist
Kálmán Székely set the finds
in their imagined original
environments. The fossilized remains of a swamp cypress forest
were found 60 metres below the ground in an open-cast
lignite mine near Bükkábrány
in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county
in July 2007. It is thought
that this area was a

swamp cypress forest on the northern shore of the Pannonian Sea in
the Late Miocene about 7 to 8 million years ago. The
cypresses were 30 to 40 metres high. A sudden sandstorm or mudflow may
have caused the trees to die, covering the lower part of their trunks
to a height of 6 metres which preserved them.
The
Ipolytarnóc
Fossils Nature Conservation
Area is a world
renowned early Miocene
palaeontological site and a
European protected area,
which was buried in a
volcanic catastrophe similar to Pompeii 17 million years ago.
Scientific investigations in the area began in 1836 and it has been
protected since 1944. Its most important fossilized remains are the
shoreline layer bearing sharks
teeth, the enormous petrified
trees of a subtropical
forest, impressions of plants and the
footprints of animals and fossils caught in the deluge of volcanic
tuff.
Tard Clay formed in the Early Oligocene came to light in Óbuda while
extracting clay for brick making. Many
varied specimens of fossilized
plants typical of subtropical
regions roughly 30 million years old were
discovered, demonstrating the abundance and diversity of the vegetation
that once existed in the area.
The special cover honours
the palaeobotanist Gyula Kováts
(1815-73), whose collections and
work describing and classifying
the finds laid the
foundations of research into
palaeobotany in Hungary. His
books “The Fossil Flora
of Erdőbénye” and “The
Fossil Flora of Tállya” were
published in 1856, establishing palaeobotany in Hungary.
Products
FDC
(reverse side is here), clean and postal used
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References:
Hungarian Post:
online,
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