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(more…)
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:(more…)
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:(more…)
Fall issue of JSP now online!
Postcard mailed from the Olympic Village on 23 July 2021, opening day of the Olympic Games. This Fall 2021 issue of JSP marks the beginning of our 60th year providing sport and Olympic philatelic news! The big event is of course the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games finally taking place(more…)
Unauthorized Australian Olympic Stamps – Sydney 2000
David Maiden: Unauthorized Australian Olympic Stamps – Sydney 2000 This video was pre-recorded in July 2021 for presentation at the SPI meeting on August 13, 2021 during the American Philatelic Society’s Great American Stamp Show (GASS) in Rosemont (Chicago), Illinois.(more…)
SPI Backyard Games cacheted FDC
SPI created a special cacheted cover for the First Day of the Backyard Games stamps which were issued on August 12 during the 2021 Great American Stamp Show (GASS) at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, near Chicago. The Backyard Games set of eight stamps honored the sports(more…)
AIWOS 2021 Going LIVE!
AICO, the International Association of Olympic Collectors, invites the Olympic collecting public to attend the official opening of AIWOS 2021 on Sunday, 5 September 2021. This is the inaugural international virtual exhibition of Olympic collections. Over 150 collections composed of philately, torches, pins, postcards, medals, and other Olympic memorabilia will(more…)
Winter 2020 JSP Online
With a salute to the veterans of World War II on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the cover story for the Winter 2020 issue of JSP focuses on “V-Mail With a Sports Theme.” No fewer than six co-authors, with Norman Rushefsky in the lead, contributed images and text on(more…)