NEW STAMP RELEASES- THE TREASURES OF HUNGARIAN MUSEUMS

" With the purpose of showing the collections of Hungarian museums the Hungarian Post is starting the issue of a new special stamp series. In 2011 the treasures of the Hungarian National Museum’s Rákóczi Museum in Sárospatak and the Hungarian Museum of Engineering and Transport’s Várpalota Museum of Chemistry are being placed on stamps.

The Rákóczi Museum operates as an affiliate of the Hungarian National Museum in Sárospatak. The castle of the Rákóczi family is today the most significant Rákóczi-linked location in Hungary, more than one hundred thousand people visit it every year. The permanent exhibition of the “golden age of the Rákóczi family” is the most detailed and the richest collection in the subject with regards to artefacts. Among the permanent exhibitions it is important to mention the exhibition on grape growing and wine making. (Source: spatak.hu)
The following objects and motifs of the Rákóczi Museum in Sárospatak appear on the HUF 280 stamp, from left to right: a stove tile made by the Haban potters settled in town quarter known as Héce by György Rákóczi I (17th c.); the building of the Rákóczi castle: the inner castle courtyard with the red Tower (16th c.) and the Lorántffy lodge; Head of the angel from the north gate of the Old Palace (16th c.); a product from the glassworks established by Ferenc Rákóczi II, a thread-decorated glass jug (19th c.); a shark-decorated glass with the coat of arms of the Mikes family (1682) and also from the glassworks established by Ferenc Rákóczi II a glassworks glass (18th c.). "