THE FIRST DEBRECZEN ISSUE OF THE ROMANIAN OCCUPATION
A newspaper and wrapper franked with a newspaper stamp printed from Plate I of the First Debreczen Issue cancelled November 24, 1919 at Debreczen 1. The expertization mark of Mihály Bodor can be seen just below the stamp. In his book, the “Catalog of Hungarian Occupation Issues, 1918-1921”, Chris Brainard estimates that only 200 of these newspaper stamps were printed (from the collection of Paul de Leeuw van Weenen).
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