The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Uzhhorod Provisional Overprints
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The National Council Definitive Issues
Cancellations
Figure 30. The NRZU provisional cancel
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Uzhhorod Provisional Overprints
The National Council Definitive Issues
Like most overprinted issues, the Uzhhorod Provisionals were merely a temporary expedient. This fact was noted by the NRZU and preparations were soon made to produce subsequent issues using local resources.
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
The Uzhhorod Provisional Overprints
Considerable discrepancies occur among catalogs as to how many basic Hungarian stamp releases were overprinted by the NZRU. Some compilations list all of the dozens of revenue stamps that were prepared. Others ignore most of these stating that they were essays and therefore never put into postal circulation. No two listings are the same and this has caused a great deal of confusion among philatelists.
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
Hearkening back to 1918-19 when trident overprints were the norm on stamps of newly independent Ukraine, some citizens of the town of Yasinia decided to create their own version during the time of Carpatho-Ukraine’s short-lived independence. On 14 March 1939, 43 Czechoslovak stamp issues and two souvenir sheets were overprinted with a rubber handstamp showing a trident (Figure 5; designated Type I, it is rather similar to Odesa VIa or some of the Podillia trident overprints from Ukraine 20 years earlier). Still on that same day or on the following day, 39 Czechoslovak stamp varieties were overprinted with a distinctive Type II metal device that not only displayed a trident, but also the words “СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ!” (Glory to Ukraine!) in a half circle under the trident (Figure 6). Some postal cards were also overprinted with either the Type I or Type II tridents. All of the overprinting was carried out with black ink.
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The National Assembly Issue
Early in 1939, plans were drawn up to hold the First Carpatho-Ukrainian National Assembly (Soim) in Khust. The date of 2 March was agreed upon and a special regional stamp, with appropriate commemorative stationery and cancellations, was designed to mark the occasion (Figure 3). The 3-koruny blue stamp, depicting the wooden church at Yasinia, was delivered to Khust by the beginning of February.
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by Jay Carrigan and Ingert Kuzych
Background
For centuries, the area of southwestern Ukraine known as Transcarpathia, Ruthenia, or Carpathian Ukraine was part of the Habsburg Empire rather than czarist Russia. Thus, prior to 1939, the stamps of Austria, Hungary, and then Czechoslovakia had been used in Transcarpathia. Russian or Ukrainian stamps were never employed.
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