The history of the find
The artefacts and documents presented here were recovered from the basement of the so-called Goldscheider Building at 7 Síp Street, built by Miklós and Ernő Román, during the 2016 renovation of the building. The company carrying out the work handed it over to the Gyula Forster National Centre for Cultural Heritage Management with the note “Chest of unknown origin 2016/LNY 18730424”, where it was inventoried. However, during the closure and reorganisation of the Foster Centre in December of the same year, it was lost, presumably during the salvage of other documents awaiting removal in January 2017, which was necessary due to a burst pipe. The chest reappeared at vendor at the Ecseri flea market, from whom it was purchased by a member of the team conducting the present research on 24 April 2023. If the hypotheses and conclusions of the research below are correct, and the chest does indeed contain Ilka Révai’s photos and objects, it is a remarkable coincidence that the find was discovered on the exact date of the 150^th anniversary of her birth.

Assistant: Boróka Prokób