Hungary 1988 Socfilex Stamp Exhibition

• Label : "Magyar Posta" (Post of Hungary), Budapest; 1988; semi-postal block of the issue "Sozphilex '88";
  

(issue of 1 block à 1 semi-postal stamp)

Note:
The stamp exhibition of the socialist counties "Sozphilex'88" took place in the time 12 June 1988 - 21 June 1988 in the Hungarian town Kecskemét (German name: "Ketschkemet")-

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Block No. 196A (without number) or 196AI (with number) both with stamp No. 3953); Yvert & Tellier : No. BF197; Scott : No. B339 (block); AFA_ No. A3839 (=block)
• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal values : 20+10 Ft (Forint) (20 Ft = block)
• Postage validity : since 10 March 1988
• Designed by :

- János Kass (1927-2010) (design)

- "Offset Office of the printery" ("Ofzetnyomat") (engraving)

• Printed by : "Penzjegynyomda Reszvenytarsasag" ("HBPC"), Budapest (probably = state-owned printery (founded 1828), in WWII heavy damaged, rebuilding, contemporary with possibility for offset printing, other source: "State Printinng House Company", Budapest (1871 founded))
• Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
• Perforation : Harrow perforation, Ks 11½
• Print run :

- block without control number : 362,500

• Stamp size

- printed area of a block stamp without signature line : 32.0 x 38.5 mm

- cutted format of the block 72.5 x 55.0 mm

• Postmark :

- block with control number: "Budapest 5", 08-08-2013

Semi-postal block of the issue "Sozphilex '88";
(issue of 1 block *a 1 semi-postal stamp)

Blocks

without control number

Michel Block 196A, mint

File:Hungary 1988 Socfilex Stamp Exhibition a1.jpg Michel Block 196A, postmarked

with control number

Michel Block 196AI, mint

Michel Block 196AI, postmarked at "Budapest 5", 08-08-2013