- Condition: MNH (**)
- Year: 2010
- Catalogue: Scott / Michel
- Number(s): 4147 / 5427
- Catalog value: 3 $ / 3 €
- Internal ID: 011_15
- Size: 50 x 25,6 mm
- Categories: PROMINENT HUNGARIANS, IZIDOR KNER WAS BORN 150 YEARS
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- DE: Ungarn.
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PROMINENT HUNGARIANS, IZIDOR KNER WAS BORN
150 YEARS AGO.
Date of issue: 5 February 2010
Izidor Kner (Gyoma, 05.02.1860 – Gyoma, 19.08.1935) an
outstanding personality in Hungarian typography, bookbinding and
book publishing.The young man from a family of travelling
bookbinders obtained his knowledge through self-education and
continuous learning. After his years of studying, in June 1882 he
opened his one-man printing-house in Gyoma, and in 1888 it was
already mentioned in the Almanac of Hungarian Printers as a
printing-house employing apprentices. In 1889 he got married and
used the dowry received to stabilise his printing-house. In 1890 he
bought his first high-performance printing-machine. A period of
uninterrupted development started, and by the beginning of the
1900’s nearly half of the settlements in contemporary Hungary
were the clients of his printing-house. The little workshop had
grown into a modern medium-sized provincial plant. Between 1902 and
1913 the company’s initial annual turnover of 100,000 crowns
increased by nearly five times. The number of permanent employees
was between 90-100. In 1914, at an exhibition in Leipzig he was
awarded a golden medal for his activity. Unfortunately, after the
First World War Romanian occupants stole two-thirds of the printing
equipment, and as the country borders of Trianon were determined, a
large proportion of the potential clients were lost.
Izidor Kner also made great achievements in social mobility.
Being a highly esteemed citizen of the settlement of Gyoma he was
also an active member of professional public life. Besides his
essays dealing with typography, he often published special articles
in which he encouraged the development of professional education,
termination of the exploitation of apprentices, and he also
protested against unfair competition. He often wrote about issues
such as the development of domestic industry and improving quality.
In 1932 – on the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the
printing-house – Békés county elected him life member of the
municipal committee, and in the same year he was awarded the title
and certificate of a guild-master.
After his death his two sons, Imre and Endre became owners of
the printing-house. However, in 1944 the printing-house was put
under the control of appointed state leaders, and in 1963 it was
merged to the former Tevan Printing-House of Békéscsaba. In 1991
Gyomai Kner Nyomda Kft. was founded, and at the end of the same
year, through the privatisation of the printing-house, Láng Kiadó
és Holding Rt. became its majority owner. In 1998 it became a
joint-stock company, and a year later the majority of its shares
were seized by the State Printing Company. Source:
https://hu.wikipedia.org * https://www.gyomaikner.hu
In the stamp picture the portrait of Izidor Kner can be seen
together with a fragment of his contemporary writing-paper and a
drawing made on the basis of an etching showing the contemporary
interior of the printing-house. On the special envelope belonging
to the stamp there is an illustration inspired by the contemporary
writing-paper, while the special cancellation stamp contains the
initials of the name of Izidor Kner.
TECHNICAL CARACTERISTICS
Order item number: 2010030010011 (stamp), 2010030060012 (FDC)
Perforation size: 50 x 25.6 mm, 40 stamps/sheet
Number issued: 400,000
Printing press: State Printing Company
Date of issue: 5 February 2010
Designer: Péter Berky
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