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You just see them in every budget packet and kiddies collection.



This is not a complete set, but a good sampling. I read they were released in 1954, replacing a similarily common 1951 green set. But why are they so common?

Did AMPOL buy 10,000,000 of them for their packets in the 60s, or did the Hungarian government print 500,000,000 to get kids hooked on them.

If anything, they are not even very attractive, but why are they so common and so popular with the kiddies. SG has them all at 10p each except a 84 filler which is about 50p, but you never see that one in the kiddie sets, always 4 filler to 80 filler small and about 6 or 7 of the large brown ones to 5 florints.

But sets seldom go above 80. The stamps were all found in a world ferret box at one of my clubs in like 5 minutes.

In amongst dozens of low value Italian Siracusa heads, German inflation stamps, Hungarian castles, Romania 1973 set with those bubble cars and telephone codes etc, and those small size Soviet stamps from 1 kopek to 15 dated 1961 and 1966.

So does anyone know how they became so popular, or does anyone know much about them at all. I noticed most of mine look properly used, none have gum, but some have a dodgy looking official Budapest postmark.

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If we wanted to talk about ubiquitous kiddie packet material, there's also those small-size Ajman stamps showing various military uniforms...the stamps smaller than a Machin, printed in various solid background colours with a wishy-washy grey vignette.

Then there's also the Romanian hotels stamps, those stamps literally kind of stank, something about the gum I guess. And there was a Bulgarian farm animals definitive set. And don't forget the Nicaragua flowers stamps with washed-out colours. A big USA wholesale dealer, Campbell-Hall, used to advertise job lots of $10,000 cat. value for $100 or something, and you would get full sheets of these stamps mint, as the catalogue value was ridiculously high (and later revised downwards something like 80%).

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Is there a listing anywhere/web page of stamps collectors should avoid?
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Someone who wants a complete collection of Hungary couldn't "avoid" these stamps though. Its just that they're as common as snow at the North Pole, and worth as much as an air conditioner would be there.

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Kiddie packets, yay.

One chap was trying to sell me a pocket sized album of CTO cat stamps from Hungary for $200 recently.

Talk about landfill.

It's the kind of thing I would just throw in the bin. You may be able to sell such things on ebay for 5c the lot. If you value your time at nothing, a perfect money making venture.

Now, now folks... You're all talking 'badly' about items I (try to) collect 'seriously'



I'd say the usual 'take a look what the stamp catalogue says' advice applies here perfectly. These are by no means a dull set of stamps if you bother to put up a bit of effort in checking their backgrounds.

As for why these where included kiddies packets? Well, if by-passing the usual 'easily & cheaply available' argument, these are excellent stamps for learning about identifying different perforations & watermarks.

And yes. All yours are CTOs (but postally used specimens of these are somewhat common too).



Here's an article/study I wrote about them earlier this year on my blog.

Again, these are lots of fun if you just care to dig in a bit more deeply than assuming their 'junk' worthy of landfill only. And the same can be said about most stamps mentioned on this topic so far.
But maybe it proves that one mans junk is another's treasure (and vice versa).

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Not the type of thin g i collect, they go back in the grot box next month. They are the type of stuff I giggle at. People thought I had lost my mind when I was fishing them out of the box.

We put a lot of quality in the boxes too. At least they make stamp collecting fun. I remember them in the packets I bought as kids and countless kiddy albums bought into me when I was working for a dealer had those tacky stamps in them. Everytime I go a stamp fair and find a kiddies album, sure enough those Hungarian stamps are there.

I know those Ajman ones too Tassiestamps, there was also a set of so called sports people as well with green, blue, pink, yellow aribrushed colors. All just absolute rubbish and of course those fish sheets from Manama and Ras Al Khaima, that sand dune stuff filled every packet in the 60s to early 90s period, it must have been cheap whole sale.

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Someone should start one.

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I collect Malta, Ireland, Malta, Tristan da Cunha, Malta, various Pacific Islands, Malta, New Zealand, Malta, Australia and Malta.

Yes

Are you volunteering princestamps?