Uzhhorod Stationery

Uzhhorod, the interwar capital of Carpatho-Ukraine, overprinted the Hungarian 1944-issue 18f postal cards with a 40f Overprint A, using the Type IV cliché also used on the First Uzhhorod Issue stamps (reading upward at a 38-degree angle; Figure 12-1). Initially the text portion of the card was not overprinted, but later all the Hungarian text was obliterated with black bars (Figure 13). The same transformation was applied to 5,000 cards from Khust.

Figure 12-1. Uzhhorod overprint.

Figure 13. Overprinted Uzhhorod postal card with black obliterations
and prior Khust overprint ČSP / —1944—.

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