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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2. 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:
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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
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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,
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Dr. Helmut Kobelbauer, Untergrossau 81, A-8261 Sinabelkirchen, Austria / Europe
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3. 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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4. (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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12. #011 Bustyaháza
LG, 140 Bustyaháza, Máramaros vm., 1910: 2056 inhabitants
→ Bustino (Ukraine)
M6, 543 BUSTYAHÁZA 1907 (--.--.1907) CS Type 1
MZ, 127 BUŠTINO * 21.12.1907 + 1919 (RO) PO: Handal-
bustyaháza
1. BUSTYAHÁZA | POSTAI ÜGYN.
SB, 34 BUSTYAHÁZA 1907 1919
MS, 118 Bustyaháza (Máramaros) Inh: 2096 1868 – CS Buštino
d. BUSTYAHÁZA 1907 – CS (1919) Type Pü -- -- -- 10 10 pts
GT, 599 BUŠTINA – БУШТИНА * 21.12.1907 + 1919 (?) PO: Handal-
bustyaháza
1. BUSTYAHÁZA | POSTAI ÜGYN. 1907 1918 Size: 37x25 mm;
60 points
JV, 30 BUSTYAHÁZA 21.12.1907 1919
HL, 32 BUSTYAHÁZA 1907 1919
Fig. 10: Cut-out, Bustyaháza, November 23rd, 1910 (1916 ?)
(collection Tamás Gudlin).
Csicser
LG, 156 Csicser, Ung vm., 1910: 1203 inhabitants
→ Čičarovce (Slovak Republic)
M6, 543 CSICSER UNG 1908 (09.11.1907) CS Type 562
MZ Ø
SB, 34 CSICSER / UNG 1908 1919
MS, 127 Csicser (Ung) Inh: 1203 1908 – CS Čičarovce
a. CSICSER UNG VM 1908 – CS (1919) Type Pü -- -- -- 5 5 pts
GT Ø
JV Ø
HL, 32 CSICSER / UNG 1908 1919
Remark: According to the rules of Dr. Simády Béla, this village does not belong to the Carpatho Ukraine.
Fig. 11: Cut-out, Csicser, January 24th, 1918
(collection Tamás Gudlin).
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25. Fig. 26: eBay #2003·9363·6764: Card from Őrhegyalja to Budapest – October 11th, 1910.
Fig. 27: Viewcard, Őrhegyalja to Budapest, September 30th, 1911
(collection Tønnes Ore).
Fig. 28: Cut-out, Őrhegyalja, February 7th, 1913
(collection Tamás Gudlin).
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