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    Posted 10 years ago

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    These are two 1983 postage stamps issued by Hungary commemorating the bicentenary of "Manned Flight" - Issued on April 5, 1983 / (AIR MAIL)
    -- Cancelled Collector Issues with original gum (unused)
    -- Scott catalog# C438 / Denomination: (1) Forint / "1811 Menner Flight "
    -- Scott catalog# C440 / Denomination: (2) Forint / "1904 Competition"
    *** Note the first stamp shown -- In 1811, while traveling as a passenger on a gas balloon from Budapest to Gyöngyös (70 km), Dr. Menner dropped to earth various small domestic animals with little silk parachutes, unharmed.

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