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At one of the spring 2026 auctions, the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation purchased a small noble family archive contained in a banana box. It became clear already during the preliminary inspection that the completely unarranged collection could hardly be described as "sensational." Nevertheless, we considered…

In March 2025, the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation acquired ten documents related to Magyaróvár from the years between 1794 and 1849 from a private individual in Budapest. According to the attached expert opinion, the small collection was already in the sights of one of the…

The Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation brought this thick, beautifully displayed volume home from the United States, New Jersey. Its Latin title is: Elenchus Biliczensium litteralium instrumentorum confectus 1808. (“List of Bélicz documents made in 1808”). Bélic, i.e. Kis- and Nagybélic, was located in the historical…

This beautiful volume came into the possession of the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation from a private individual in Pécs, which contains summaries in Latin of civil, divorce and criminal cases concluded at the Seven-Person Board – the court of appeal of the curia – in…

Lajos Petri (before 1928, his birth name was Lajos Pick), whose father was Márk Pick, the founder of the Pick Salami Factory in Szeged – worked as a trained and qualified sculptor (1884–1963). His mother was Katalin Weisz, the daughter of the rabbi of Lugos.…