Hungary

Scott No: 2764
Date of Issue: November 11, 1982
Set: Vuk the Fox Cub

Scott No: 3492
Date of Issue: May 9, 1995
Species:

Bird Species: White Stork

This stamp was issued as part of a series on nature protection. Note the leaf held together with a safety pin in the upper right corner.

Scott No.: 3849
Date of Issue: May 9. 2003
Species: European Tree Frog (Hyla arborea)

Scott No.: 4288
Date of Issue: June 20, 2013
Set: Sandor Weores (1913-1989), Frog playing the flute

Scott No.:
Date of Issue: March 4, 2020
Set: The Wonderful World of the Bakony Dinoaur Site II
Species: Hungarobatrachus szukacsi This is apparently a giant frog species of the Cretaceuos period. It's extinct, of course.

According to Magyar Post: In the spring of 2000, after much preliminary information collecting and research, the first dinosaur fossils in modern Hungary were unearthed from a sandstone formation at Iharkút in the Bakony Mountains. After the initial finds, more fossils came to light, and in the subsequent years, in addition to numerous small collecting trips, research camps lasting several weeks were regularly organised, where contiguous skeletons and several thousand individual bones and teeth were found.

The design of the six stamps of the souvenir sheet shows the following creatures in this order: Hungarobatrachus szukacsi, Mochlodon vorosi, Bauxitornis mindszentyae, Atractosteus, Foxemys trabanti and Doratodon carcharidens. The depiction of Mochlodon vorosi is repeated on the first day cover and the postmark. The special feature of the souvenir sheet is that placing it beside the first issue of the series, which was released in 2018, produces a continuous picture of the wonderful world of the Bakony dinosaur site imagined based on the fossil treasures.

Scott No.: 4587a, 4587 (minisheet)
Date of Issue: March 8, 2021
Set: Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695). The story depicted is "The Frog Who Could Make Himself as Big as an Ox." Things do not go well for the frog.

From the Magyar Post site: Magyar Posta commemorates the work of the French writer Jean De La Fontaine on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth by issu-ing a special miniature sheet. Magyar Posta will use the amount of the surcharge received from the purchased miniature sheets which contain two stamps with surcharge, i.e. a total of HUF 150 per miniature sheet, to support the collection of stamps by youth. The special miniature sheet consisting of four stamps was produced by the ANY Biztonsági Nyomda Nyrt. in 20 000 copies, based on the plans of graphic artist Zsolt Vidák. The new issue is available from Filaposta, philately special-ist services, certain post offices and at www.posta.hu.

Jean de La Fontaine (Château-Thierry, 8 July 1621, Paris – 13 April 1695) was a French writer and poet. At a young age, he wanted to become a priest, but later he chose the legal profession and worked as a lawyer. He then left his office and devoted most of his life exclusively to literature. He became fa-mous for his poetic fables which are witty, instructive stories. His fables were published in 12 books, the first six being written for the young heir to the throne, for which he translated Phaedrus’s well-known fables into French in poetic form. The next six were written not so much for children, but for the adult readers. Woven into fairy tales, he criticised the social morals of his age, the failings of humans, with sharp irony.

Each stamp denomination on the special miniature sheet includes illustra-tions of famous fables: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Wolf and the Stork, The Two Bulls and the Frog and The Grasshopper and the Ant. The framework drawing shows a drawing composition of the fable The Raven and the Fox. The special envelope features a portrait of Jean de La Fontaine, and the postmark also contains the image of a raven with a piece of cheese in its beak from the fable called The Raven and the Fox.

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