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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(more…)
Royal Mail honors Tokyo 2020 Team GB
Royal Mail ink-jet postmark on 8 September 2021 from “North & West Yorkshire.” Shown inset is an enlarged and cleaned-up version of the marking. 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(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…)