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Postcard to István Mészáros
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Translation

On the picture: Greetings from Hédervár
Date on the stamp: 1923

Addressed To:
Hon.
István Mészáros
Master Cartwright,
Mosonszentmiklos, Moson County

Dear Broth
er-in-law and my dear Sister,
I wish to let you know that I have arrived safely and if the weather is good on Sunday, I am going to visit them. I hope Marcsa (Maria) and company will also be home - I wrote to them that I am coming.
Kisses,
István

bognár = copper, barrel maker, wheel maker, tuber, hopper, cartwright, wheelwright.
The word "bognár" came into the Hungarian language from the German word "Wagner". Wheelwright is "a maker and repairer of wheels and wheeled vehicles; one who does all of the work on the wooden vehicles" (the word goes back to the thirteenth century). The wheelwright [or wheeler] was often the village waggonwright [also known as a wainwright] as well, building all of the wooden conveyances, from wheelbarrow to horse-drawn wagon.

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