TREASURES OF HUNGARIAN MUSEUMS - Chess Museum, Pipe Museum
Magyar Posta is presenting the collections of Hungarian museums on special stamps.
On the denominations issued in the series
in 2016, some of the highly prized treasures of the Chess Museum in Heves and
the Pipe Museum in Ibafa showing a collection on the history of smoking, part
of the Janus Pannonius Museum, are featured. The new issues are in the format
of a miniature sheet of four stamps. The new miniature sheets were designed by
the graphic artist Barnabás Baticz
using photographs by Tibor Jakab and István Fűzi, and produced by the
banknote printing company Pénzjegynyomda
Zrt.
The new issues will be on sale in first day post offices and at
Filaposta in Hungary from 3 June while stocks last, but may also be purchased
from Magyar Posta’s online store.
• Heves Chess
Museum (Heves, Hunyadi u. 2)
The Chess Museum opened on 24 February
1987 but collecting its material began many years beforehand in 1958 and
continues to this day. Until now approximately 100,000 visitors from over 50
countries have viewed the collection. The oldest piece is a complete set from
Seville dating from 1750. Some of the collection’s special chess sets deserve
mention such as the ivory set from Morocco, the sandalwood set from India, the
ebony set from Tanzania, the Kyrgyz folk art, agate set with a marble table, a
ceramic set and a set designed for blind chess players. The collection also
includes medals, memorial flags as well as video and voice recordings, and the
world literature of chess.
• Ibafa Pipe Museum (Ibafa, Arany János u. 2)
The Pipe Museum’s
collection was created in the 1960s and pipes relating the history of smoking
were mainly acquired by purchase. The
exhibition, which opened in 1968, has been re-arranged and modernised several times.
Carved pumice pipes, porcelain pipes, a copy of the “ibafai fapipa” (the wooden
pipe of Ibafa, well-known from a popular tongue twister), tobacco holders,
lighting devices, a variety of clay pipes made in different places, Chinese
opium pipes, marvellous examples of wooden pipes with rustic carving, match
holders and pipe stems are on view. A unique piece is the large, turned wooden
“social” pipe. A few pieces are associated with famous historic figures such as
Ferenc Deák and Count Mihály Károlyi.
Source: hevesmuvhaz.hu, jpm.hu