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Manfred Winternheimer Passing
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 SPI, he will be greatly […]
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 […]