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What’s Your Favorite “First Sports Stamp”?
An example of the “First Sports Stamp” for ice hockey (1948 Switzerland) used on cover. Nearly all of us have a favorite sport. After all, that’s why we’re sports and Olympic stamp collectors! What could be more natural, then, to talk — or better yet WRITE — about our favorite sport’s first stamp. That’s […]
Royal Mail honors Tokyo 2020 Team GB
Royal Mail, the United Kingdom’s postal administration, honored all the Team GB athletes who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games with a special sprayed-on ink-jet postmark on all mail posted in the UK between 6-10 September 2021. The marking, in 6 lines of text, reads: Congratulations to all our Team […]
AIWOS Awards Ceremony
Join your fellow Olympic and sports collectors from around the world for the Awards Ceremony for the First Virtual International Exhibition of Olympic Collections. The event will broadcast live on Zoom starting at 7:00AM PT / 10:00AM ET. The schedule of events is as follows (all times Pacific Time): 6:50AM: Opening access to the Ceremony […]