Boy and girl before the ELŐRE flag — 1 Ft red
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1956.HUN.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 10th Anniversary of the Young Pioneers
1956.HUN.01· piece 1 of 4 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Hungary (HUN)- Year / date
- 1956-06-02
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 1 Ft
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Red
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 956.9
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- HU 1156
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- HU 1468
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- HU 1198
Notes
Profiles of a boy and a girl before a banner lettered ELŐRE, laurel spray at right, inscription AZ ÚTTÖRŐSZERVEZET FENNÁLLÁSÁNAK 10. ÉVFORDULÓJÁRA. Domfil 956.9 «Emblem».
Series history
Hungary issued a pair of 1 forint commemoratives on 2 June 1956 for the tenth anniversary of the Úttörőszervezet, the Pioneer organisation founded in 1946. Domfil catalogues them as 956.9 and 956.10, describing both designs as «Emblema / Emblem».
The two stamps share one design in different colours, the first in red and the second in grey-green: the profiles of a boy and a girl before a flowing banner carrying the word ELŐRE — «forward» — with a laurel spray at the right. The inscription curves around the top, AZ ÚTTÖRŐSZERVEZET FENNÁLLÁSÁNAK 10. ÉVFORDULÓJÁRA, for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Pioneer organisation, above MAGYAR POSTA and the face value.
Both values also exist imperforate, which Domfil prices at several times the perforated pair. Those two are catalogued here after the perforated stamps, from the collection's own copies; they carry no separate Michel, Scott or Yvert number in our sources. Catalogue references for the perforated pair are Michel HU 1468–1469, Scott HU 1156–1157 and Yvert HU 1198–1199.
The Hungarian Pioneers join the Romanian, Bulgarian and Czechoslovak organisations already represented in the catalogue for these years, and follow Hungary's own Children's Day issues of 1950 and 1951.