Games On Stamps... Playing Cards, Board Games, Video Games

There's a Lara Croft stamp??? And its not a minisheet from Abkhazia?

Hold on... and what's with the heart-shaped bed?? Am I that stuck in the 1980s??

Here is an image of a stamp depicting one of my all-time favorite games, designed by Danish painter Ole Hofman Sporring (1941- ), engraved by Czeslaw Slania, and issued by Denmark on January 26, 1984 to publicize the World Billiards Championships held in Copenhagen, May 10th-13th, Scott No. 750, Facit No. 826.

- nethryk

I think I like the slinky stamp the best. That's about my speed.

Here's an image of a typographed stamp featuring a stylized chess knight, issued by Bulgaria on September 29, 1947 to publicize the Balkan Games, Scott No. 580, SG No. 674.

- nethryk

Chess again: Board, world map and castle, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Iceland on July 2, 1972 to publicize the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik between the USA's Bobby Fischer and the USSR's Boris Spassky, Scott No. 224, Facit No. 501. Note: Fischer won.

- nethryk

South Ossetia

My guess...10th Century chess pieces.

That Pac Man stamp would look great next to my Pac Man lunch box with thermos and my original Atari 2600 and Nintendo systems. Oh I also have some early editions of Monopoly, one of my favorite board games. However, I am a sucker for any pinball machines. Great topic thread.

Here is an image of another chess stamp, designed by A. Dascalescu, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Romania on February 25, 1966 to publicize the 17th Chess Olympiad, held in Havana, Cuba, from October 23 to November 20, 1966, Scott No. 818. Notes: Shortly before the games began, ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal was hit in the head with a bottle in a Havana bar and beaten up, thereby missing the first five rounds of the Olympics because of his injuries. (Who says chess isn't exciting?) Nevertheless, the USSR team won for the 8th time; the USA team finished in second place, primarily because of the brilliant individual play of Bobby Fischer.

- nethryk

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a chess collage, designed by Pierrette Lambert, engraved by Michel Monvoisin, and issued by France on June 8, 1974 to publicize the 21th Chess Olympiad in Nice, June 6 to June 30, Scott No. 1413, Y&T No. 1800. Note: World Champion Bobby Fischer refused to play for the USA because the organizers refused to allow him to play his games in a separate building, away from the public and the press. So, who's the fool?

- nethryk

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (1888-1942) was a Cuban chess player and the World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927. Nicknamed the "Human Chess Machine," Capablanca was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play, and he is considered one of the greatest players of all time. Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting Capablanca making "the exact play," printed by photogravure by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., and issued by Cuba on November 1, 1951 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his victory in the 1921 world championship match against Emanuel Lasker in Havana from March 18 to April 28, Scott No. C45, SG No. 573.

- nethryk

I have this Black Jack stamp and one more.





and for Skat.

From Holland an interesting chess stamp. The opening moves e2-e4



...and a chess tournament coming up in the UK.


http://e2e4.org.uk/

I think I found some! Do multiple variations of "Post Office-Opoly" (http://www.katymarketing.com/game_postoffice.shtml) count as Games on Stamps or Stamps on Games??

International Women's Year
date: 29 July 1975

designer: Ans Bockting-van Genderen

printer: Johan Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Netherlands

perforated: 12¾:14

remark: part of a series of two stamps

18 35 c playing card with a woman and a man,
text "JAAR VAN DE VROUW" multicoloured