Share With US Your Table Tennis Stamps

That's right, a discussion about stamps having to do with ping-pong. There are, in fact quite a few stamps related to table tennis. To start it off, here's a Recently issued GB 'paralympic games' one.

*sarcasm* wow they put a lot of effort into that stamp design! *end sarcasm*

Paddle, ball and olive branch, printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on August 30, 1958 as one of seven stamps in a sports set designed by Hungarian artists Jozsef Vertel and Tibor Gonczi Gebhardt, Scott No. 1203, SG No. 1527.

- nethryk

Some from Stamps of the World :

Women table tennis players and 1973 Beijing tournament trophy cup, printed by lithogravure, and issued by (North) Korea on March 10, 1974, Scott No. 1203.

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I didn't get any tickets for the olympics but if I had to choose a sport to go and watch it would definitely be Table Tennis.

Table tennis player, designed by Jozef Baláz, combined engraved by Milos Ondrácek and photogravure, and issued by Czechoslovakia on March 22, 1976 to publicize the European Table Tennis Championship, Prague, March 26 to April 4, Scott No. 2060.

- nethryk

Here are images of a couple of stamps depicting a determined table tennis player, designed by Czeslaw Slania and G. Nyström after a photo by R. Holmqvist, engraved by Czeslaw Slania, and issued by Sweden on April 11, 1967 to publicize the World Table-tennis Championships, played in Stockholm April 11-24, Scott Nos. 726 & 725, Facit Nos. 602B and 603.

- nethryk

Mixed Doubles table tennis, designed and engraved by René Quillivic, and issued by France on December 17, 1977 to commemorate the French team's gold medal in that event at the 1977 World Table Tennis Championships, held in Birmingham, England, and the 50th anniversary of the Fédération Française de Tennis de Table (FFTT), Scott No. 1558, Y&T No. 1961. Who wears short shorts?

- nethryk

1958 Hungary, European Championship, photogravure, 3o fillér. Designer Tibor Gönczi (the designer of the 2o fillér stamp, presented by nethryk is Józsf Vertel, and he is also the designer of the 4o fillér issue- wrestling. In 1958 in Hungary were held the Amateur Wrestling European Championship, the Swimming European Championship and the Table Tennis European Championship, all comemorated by one set of seven stamps)



1968 Sowiet Union, Youth European Tabel Tennis Championship, offset.

Here are images of the two airmail stamps in a set designed and engraved by Jacques Combet, and issued by Malagasy on March 19, 1974 to commemorate the 1973 Asian, African and Latin American Table Tennis Invitational Tournament, hosted in Beijing, Scott Nos. C124 & C125.

- nethryk

Male table tennis player, camellia and hummingbird


Female table tennis player, flower and bird

Table tennis player, printed by lithography, and issued by China (People's Republic) on December 28, 1959 to publicize the 1st National Sports Meet, Scott No. 471.

- nethryk

China 1961, 26th international table tennis championship (from a set of 4 values)