YOUR OWN SCHOOL GRADUATION STAMP

Date of issue: 16 April 2007.

The stamps can be used for approaching school graduation ceremonies either when sending letters of invitation or as a special memory of the day. A new feature is that the stamps are not marked with a specific monetary value but rather with a category of use so they can flexibly be used for postage without additional payment even if postal tariffs change.

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Your Own School Graduation Stamp I – Sailor blouse: The sheet has two alternating stamp designs, one with the symbols of school graduation (a diploma, a satchel and a mortar board) and the other with a graduating schoolgirl wearing a sailor blouse. De-signed by Barnabás Baticz.
Your Own School Graduation Stamp II – Ink well: The sheet has two alternating stamp designs, one with the symbols of school graduation (a diploma, a satchel and a mortar board) and the other with objects associated with studying (a book, an ink well and a quill). Designed by Barnabás Baticz.
Your Own School Graduation Stamp III – Satchel: On the sheet eight alternating stamp designs follow one another, showing a traditional school graduation scene of graduands parading in single file round the school with their hand placed on the shoulder of the person in front. Designed by Barnabás Baticz.
Your Own School Graduation Stamp IV – Hot air balloon: The sheet with twenty different stamp designs is a composition referring to school graduation and finding one’s way in the years after leaving school. Each of the twenty different stamps also works as an indi-vidual design, focusing on a particular element related to the topic such as a gown, book or diploma. Designed by Péter Berky.

The trimmed size of the sheets, each containing twenty stamps with labels, is 297 x 210 mm. The perforated size of the stamps is 36.25 x 25.2 mm and that of the label is 18 x 25.2 mm. Made by Pénzjegynyomda Zrt by offset printing. The four novelties are to be issued on 27 April 2007 as regular postage stamps, the number of copies depending on demand.

Your Own Stamps can be ordered at all post offices or be made while you wait at Filaposta (Budapest, District V., Városház u. 18), Pécs Post Office No. 1 (Jókai út 10) and Debrecen Post Office No. 20 (Füredi út 27).