Financial Institutions of Old: A Selection of Material from the History of Finance Collection of OTP Bank

Scarce oversized hardcover 29 x 19.5 x 2 cm, weight: 1155g, 195 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photos and facsimiles of documents, glossy paper, NOT ex-library. A clean book with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A small area of damage to the upper edge of pages 33-44. Boards show faint shelfworn marks and scratches, a small puncture/indentation to the upper edge of the front panel. Issued without a dust jacket. -- In the history of Hungary, we can only speak of the existence of financial institutions for scarcely more than 150 years. Even so, the historical artefacts of their operation remain of value to museums and can be regarded as rare documents of the age and its economic history. The History of Finance Collection, established in the 1960s, is a rich store of these artefacts. Here we find written materials and objects, writing implements and calculating tools, office equipment, accessories and furnishings associated with the foundation of the first Hungarian banks and the operation of the numerous financial institutions that sprang up in the decades that followed. This collection of many thousands of items also safeguards and preserves for posterity numerous specialized publications, depositor's books and lottery tickets, certificates and manuscripts, coins, banknotes and money boxes, as well as antique securities, all presented here in a diverse selection. The aim of this volume is to show the variety, treasures and curiosities from the collection in the light of a number of small and large financial institutions and economic enterprises, and figures of the world of economy and finance in the 19th and 20th centuries. We trust that it will provide a picture of a century in the economic and financial history of Hungary, from the foundation of the first Hungarian financial institution until the era of nationalization that followed World War II. -- Contents [from the end of the 1700s until 1948]: 1. Reform Period: Foundation of the First Hungarian Financial Institutions [Guild Strongboxes; Andras Fay; 1st Hungarian Savings Bank; Moric Szitanyi Ullmann; Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest; Gyor Savings Bank; 1st Savings Bank of Gyor; Baron Lajos Vay, Lord Lieutenant; Exchange Act and Bills of Exchange; Lajos Kossuth] 2. Period of Absolutism: Spread of the Share Company Form [Baron Frigyes Harkanyi; Silver Money Boxes; Pecs Savings Bank; Count Menyhert Lonyay; Tolna Area Savings Bank; Heves County Savings Bank; Depositor's books, Deeds; Sandor Mihok; Memorial Album on Financial Institutions] 3. Period of the Dual Monarchy: Time of Prosperity in Hungarian Economic Life [Szeged-Csongrad Savings Bank; Interest-Bearing Lottery Loans; Peter Vay Snr.; Plan for a Hungarian Post Office Savings Bank; Baron Frigyes Podmaniczky; Lottery Ticket Loans; Lottery Bonds; Jubilee Albums; Hungarian Royal Ministry of Finance; Monetary System of the Crown; Hungarian Royal Post Office Savings Bank; Odon Lechner; Leo Lanczy; Budapest Commodity and Stock Exchange; Statues in Kecskemet; Austro-Hungarian Bank; Nyiregyhaza Savings Bank Association; Safes and Vaults; A Bank Office; Cash Dispensers and Counting Machines; Typewriters; Calculating Devices; Securities Collection; Count Sandor Karolyi; Account Books; Safe Deposit Boxes; Foreign Securities; Financial Institution Bonds; Lotteries: Lottery Tickets & Posters; Cheque Circulation; Coin Collector's Cabinet; Balls and Banquets; Financial Institutions' Sports Clubs; Years of World War I; War Bonds] 4. Dissolution of the Monarchy: Life of Financial Institutions between the World Wars [Monetary System of the Pengo; 1st International Savings Bank Congress; Depositor's Books; Money Boxes; Insurance Institutions; Private Banking Houses; Hungarian-Italian Bank; Shares; Securities & Printing Technology; Izidor Kner Institute; Financial Institution Calendars; Jozsef Schuler Share Company; Money Substitutes (+17 more chapters)].…