Hungary Hungarian Kivalo Dolgozol Badges

[Verdun16]

[Verdun16]

Not sure if this is the corect case for this issue. Unmarked and not form fitted for the award but bought together,

Bryan

[Gordon Craig]

Ooooohhhhh. Nice-early and nice. What is the profession?

Hey, you should do a follow up note on this one for the JOMSA!

Ulsterman,

Engineering is the profession.

Verdun16,

Thanks for posting all your early numbered badges. As I mentioned before, these are getting hard to come by and as you have noted, the prices are certainly going up.

Regards,

Gordon

[Ulsterman]

#242 and #245 are really nice.

Congratulations.

[Gordon Craig]

Gents,

Here is a totally new shape for the Kiv?l? Dolgoz?. This cased award was given out by the MAYGAR HITEL BANK. It is a pin back badge with a plain back. Her is the top of the box.

Regards,

Gordon

[Gordon Craig]

The award in the open case.

[Gordon Craig]

A close up of the Kiv?l? Dolgoz? from the MHB.

[Ulsterman]

wow oh wow!!

I assume that is a 1980s type of pin? A bankers' badge- I LOVE it!!

[Gordon Craig]

Ulsterman,

Yes it is.

Regards,

Gordon

[Gordon Craig]

A Kiv?l? M?sz?ki Dolgoz? with a twist.

The top cover.

[Gordon Craig]

The bottom of the case.

[Gordon Craig]

The obverse of the award.

[Gordon Craig]

A close up of the award.

[Gordon Craig]

And now for the twist. Instaed of having a numer/letter number combination or a plain back this one has L A B O R 25 on the back. The English translation for labor is laboratory. Not really sure what this refers to. Perhaps laboratoy #25 was where the worker was employed who received this Kiv?l? M?sz?ki Dolgoz?.

Regards,

Gordon

[cimbineus]

Hi Gents,

In this category of "KIV?L? DOLGOZ?" badges, these three tiny ones are my favourites. "KIV?L? M?H?SZ" means "Excellent Bee-keeper". There were three grades of this title, gold (1^st class), silver (2^nd class) and bronze (3^rd class) grades. Are not they lovely? (And what an idea, "Excellent Bee-keeper"!? )

Regards,

cimbineus

Edited November 18, 2008 by cimbineus

[Gordon Craig]

cimbineus,

Another new badge that I have not seen before and I have a lot of "KIV?L? DOLGOZ?" badges. As you say, these are very attractive badges.

Regards,

Gordon

[cimbineus]

cimbineus,

Another new badge that I have not seen before and I have a lot of "KIV?L? DOLGOZ?" badges. As you say, these are very attractive badges.

Regards,

Gordon

Hi Gordon,

It is very interesting that approximately from 1990 those badges became quite popular to collect and many of them gradually became very difficult to find items. I must admit that this is one of my favourite fields.

Regards,

cimbineus

[Ulsterman]

Excellent!! I love these badges.

Do you have a copy of the Kivalo Dolgazo book at all?

[cimbineus]

... Do you have a copy of the Kivalo Dolgazo book at all?

If you mean the "KIT?NTETŐ JELV?NYEK ?S C?MEK A POLG?RI ?LETBEN, 1948-1990" from 1997, yes, I have one copy.

[hunyadi]

Cimbineus -

do you have a Kivalo Dolgozo for the Interior Ministry by chance???

[cimbineus]

Cimbineus -

do you have a Kivalo Dolgozo for the Interior Ministry by chance???

Yes, I have that badge in my collection. It is extremely scarce in this category (RRR) which means, that it is almost impossible to find. Here is the picture:

[cimbineus]

Cimbineus -

do you have a Kivalo Dolgozo for the Interior Ministry by chance???

... and here is the back of that badge:

[cimbineus]

Hello all,

I offer here some vocabulary that might be useful for not native speaker collectors of Hungarian "KIV?L?" badges. I think you can see these words on this kind of badges quite often.

• MUNKA ? work, labour
• MUNK?S ? in general: worker, but mostly physical worker
• MUNK?SA ? worker of ?
• MUNK??RT ? for ? work (agricultural, excellent, etc.)

• KIV?L? ? excellent, the highest distinction.
• ?RDEMES ? meritorious, a lower distinction.
• J? ? good, the lowest distinction.

• ?LMUNK?S - front-runner (vanguard) worker, gaffer

• DOLGOZ? ? employee in general (both physical and intellectual)
• DOLGOZ?JA ? employee of ?

• V?LLALAT ? company, firm
• INT?ZM?NY ? institution
• TAN?CS ? council (the local organ of communist governance)
• MINISZT?RIUM ? ministry
• GY?R ? factory
• MEZŐGAZDAS?G ? agriculture
• IPAR ? industry

• NEH?Z ? heavy
• K?NNYŰ ? light

• B?NY?SZ ? miner
• B?NY?SZAT ? mining industry

• TANUL? ? pupil
• TANUL?S ? learning
• TANUL?S?RT -. For learning

• T?RSADALMI MUNKA? work done in public interests, "voluntary" that is free work

And in general:

~a, ~ja, ~e, ~je at the end of a word usually means "of"

~?rt at the end of a word usually means "for"

~ban, ~ben at the end of a word usually means "in"

~?s, ~?s at the end of a word usually means "~ing", that is a process. (Example: TANUL ? to learn; TANUL?S ? learning)

~at, ~et at the end of a word usually means "~ing", "~y" or "~try", that is an activity or a field of activity. (Examples: B?NY?SZ ? miner, B?NY?SZAT ? mining; KOH?SZ ? metallurgist, KOH?SZAT ? metallurgy; VEGY?SZ ? chemist, VEGY?SZET - chemistry.)

~?sz, ~?sz at the end of a word usually means "~ist", "~er", "~or", e.t.c., that is a person who deals with something (Examples: B?NYA ? mine, B?NY?SZ ? miner, or M?H ? bee, M?H?SZ ? bee-keeper, KERT ? garden, KERT??SZ ? gardener; ?J?T?S ? innovation, ?J?T? - innovator.)

I think it is enough for the first time.

Regards,

cimbineus

Edited November 19, 2008 by cimbineus

[Gordon Craig]

cimbineus,

Thanks for the Sz?t?r (dictionary) of word endings. I am sure it will be a big help to our English speaking members who have no knowledge of Hungarian.

Regards,

Gordon

[Ulsterman]

yes-thank you!!

AND THAT BADGE-

it is wonderful!!