Show Me Your Sports Stamps!

Here are some sports stamps from Afghanistan. Scott #496-505 & B37-B41. Can you spell repetitious. These stamps were issued to celebrate Children's Day. However the only stamp with Children is the 175p where they are skating. All other designs are of grown-ups (I assume, perhaps not) Wrestling, getting ready to hit each other with Clubs or slicing each other with Swords. At least the Semi-Postals are overprinted for UNICEF. Sometimes I just wonder.

This is another set of Sports Stamps from Afghanistan issued in 1962 Scott #604-608 & C23-C25. This set was also printed to Honor Children's Day. The people featured in all of the stamps of this set do not, to me, appear to be children. If they are children then they are very mature. Flowers and Peaches to celebrate Children's Day? I really enjoy seeing designs which utilize both, but I do believe if a stamp is issued to celebrate an event, it should depict that event on the stamp. So, perhaps Afghanistan postal authorities were trying to get maximum return on their investment? We have some great topical designs on these stamps making them more desireable for those folks that collect certain topicals and want complete sets.

Here is an image of an engraved stamp depicting women field hockey players, designed by Hiller, and issued by West Berlin (Germany) on May 13, 1976 to publicize the Women's World Hockey Championships held in Berlin, Scott No. 9N385, Michel No. 521.

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Bowling, designed by V. Majek, engraved by Josef Hercik, and issued by Czechoslovakia on January 22, 1987 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Czechoslovakian Bowling Union, Scott No. 1641.

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Here is information on all flags of the world cup countries.

Boxing, engraved and printed by Security Banknote Co., Philadelphia, and issued by Bolivia on July 1, 1951 as one of a set of 14 stamps commemorating the 5th South American athletic championship matches held in La Paz in October, 1948, Scott No. 352, SG No. 531.

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What is this topic missing? The Great Pele! This stamp commemorated his very famous 1000th goal! Horah!

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Javelin thrower, airmail stamp designed and engraved by Albert Decaris, and issued for use in Wallis & Futuna Islands on October 10, 1964 to publicize the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, Scott No. C19. The javelin event was held on October 14, and the gold medal was won by Urs von Wartburg of Switzerland with a best mark of 79.92 meters.

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Here are images of the six stamps in a sports set issued by Monaco on April 29, 1968 to publicize the 19th Olympic Games, held in Mexico City, October 12-27, Scott Nos. 676-81.

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Shot put, designed by André Peyrie, engraved by Jean Miermont.


High jump, designed by André Peyrie, engraved by Michel Monvoisin.


Gymnast on rings, designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon.


Water polo, designed and engraved by Claude Durrens.


Wrestling, designed and engraved by Pierre Forget.


Gymnast, designed and engraved by Georges Bétemps.

Table tennis player and globe, designed by Kang Choon-whan, printed by photogravure, and issued by Korea on May 23, 1973 to publicize the Korean women's team event victory in the 32nd World Table Tennis Championships held April 5 to 15 in Sarajevo, Yugolsavia (capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Scott No. 871, SG No. 1044.

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Here are images of a couple of engraved stamps depicting exciting competitive skiing events that just seemed to belong together in the same post.

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Ski jumper and Olympic emblem, designed and engraved by Pierre Forget, and issued by Monaco on April 27, 1972 to publicize the 21st Winter Olympics held in Sapporo, Japan, Scott No. 828.


Slalom, engraved by Pablo Sampedro Molero, and issued by Spain on March 24, 1977 to publicize the World Skiing Championships held in Granada, Scott No. 2036, Edifil No. 2408.

Hi:

We organized the Soccer Worldcup on 1962. We finished on third place !! ...behind Brazil (with the great Pelé playing )and Czechoslovakia.

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Regards,

José

Ondrej Nepela (1951-1989) was an Olympic gold medalist and three-time World champion Slovak figure skater. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Nepela performing a Russian split jump, designed by Slovakian graphic artist and illustrator Igor Piacka (1962- ), combined engraved by Rudolf Ciganik and photogravure, and issued by Slovakia on November 3, 1997, Scott No. 289.

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