2050) "One With Nature - World of Hunting and Nature Exhibition, Budapest - 15/09 - 14/10. 2021" Hungary (2021): Magyar Posta (Hungary Post) has issued a set of four stamps for this exhibition organised after fifty years: Date of Stamp Set issue: 25.09.2021:
About One With Nature - World Of Hunting And Nature Exhibition:
The last time Hungary had organised a world exhibition on the theme of hunting was in 1971.
50 years later, under the theme - “One with Nature”, a world exhibition is being held in the Hungarian capital between 25/09 and 14/10.2021.
The venue of the large-scale central event is the HUNGEXPO Budapest Convention and Exhibition Centre, where various hunting, forestry and fishing themes combined with the long-term sustainability of nature is being presented to visitors in a modern environment in an area totalling over 70,000 square metres.
The aim of the series of programmes is to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the environment, the concept and meaning of the sustainable utilisation of nature, and the use and how hunting, game management, angling, fishing, fish management, forestry and forest management and nature's balance.
The Stamps:
The eight stamps of the set present animals connected to the theme in an inter-related composition:
mouflon (Ovis aries), European fallow deer (Dama dama), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), wild boar (Sus scrofa), red deer (Cervus elaphus), wirehaired vizsla, European hare (Lepus europaeus), grey partridge (Perdix perdix) and pheasant (Phasianus colchicus).
The stamp of 15 HUF of the Souvenir Sheet (SS) shows the portraits of -
a) Zsigmond Széchenyi, Hungarian hunter, traveller, writer
b) Kálmán Kittenberger, Hungarian Africa researcher, zoologist, teacher, hunter and natural science writer, the former chief editor of the hunting journal Nimród, and
c) József Attila Prize-winning Hungarian writer István Fekete, the author of many youth novels and animal stories.
The three writers are surrounded by the mysterious world of forests in the frame of the souvenir sheet.
The main motif of the Special First Day Cover (FDC) is the red deer, shown at left, while the special postmark depicts the logo of the event. The Cancellation is dated - "25.09.2021 and is of Budapest Post Office.
A First Day Cover (FDC) with a Cancelled Souvenir Sheet affixed at to right.
Technical details:
Issue Date: 25.09.2021
Designer: Pál Remete
Printer: ANY Biztonsági Nyomda Nyrt.
Process: Offset
Colours: 4-colour
Size(s): 40.00 mm x 30.00 mm
Values: 145 HUF (x 2 Stamps), 200 HUF (x 2 Stamps), 425 HUF (x 2 Stamps), 460 HUF (x 2 Stamps).
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