XXVII World Olympic Collectors’ Fair Paris, France June 23 – 25, 2023 Official Communique The National Postal Museum’s new blockbuster exhibition explores America’s national pastime. The exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Explore the new exhibition here: postalmuseum.si.edu/baseball(more…)
“Baseball: America’s Home Run” Explore the New Exhibition! National Postal Museum Washington, DC April 9, 2022 through January 5, 2025 The National Postal Museum’s new blockbuster exhibition explores America’s national pastime. The exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Explore the new exhibition here: postalmuseum.si.edu/baseball(more…)
2022 Great American Stamp Show SAFE Credit Union Convention Center Sacramento, California 25-28 August 2022 Annual Meetings of the American Philatelic Society American Topical Association American First Day Cover Society SPI Highlights ♦ Booth for all 4 show days ♦ SPI meeting Friday August 26, 10-11AM, Room B7, featuring talk(more…)
All Olympic collectors are (or should be) familiar with the name, Manfred Winterheimer. For decades, he has catalogued Olympic cancellations, registration labels, postal stationery and airmail of the summer and winter Olympic Games dating back to 1964. Sadly, we have word that Manfred recently passed away. A longtime member of(more…)
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, 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…)
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…)
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…)