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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2016 16:16:11 GMT
The Games Never HeldPoster stamps commemorating the 1940 Olympic Games were produced by the American Bank Note Company.  The Games were scheduled to be staged from July 20 to August 4, 1940. The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad, originally scheduled to be held from 21 September to 6 October 1940 in Tokyo, Japan, were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II. The Olympic Games were suspended following the outbreak of World War II until the London Games of 1948. These stamps represent the Helsinki-St.Moritz Olympic games that were never held. More information in addition to other stamps and labels related to the 1940 Olympics may be found at this link: POSTER STAMPS AND LABELS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMESThank you for viewing.
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Post by jamesw on May 22, 2016 3:02:55 GMT
This is a beautiful set. I've had one for a while and it's one of my favourites. The US Olympic Committee used exactly the same design for the 1948 London Games. Which means there's another set out there I'm on the hunt for. Just for fun, here's a label from the German Olympic Society for the 1952 Helsinki Games.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jan 17, 2018 21:52:35 GMT
Searching through the list I see we do not have a thread for this popular topic/Thematic. I was rewarded recently for my efforts to add to a series issued for the 1912 Games in Stockholm. The Official Poster stamps were exact replicas of the Games' publicity Posters by Professor Olle Hjortzberg, which were printed in 16 languages. Chinese was one of them and along with the Japanese variety are the scarcest of the series. (China was not represented at the Games). So I was very happy to receive this one in the mail !!  |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Feb 7, 2018 17:53:11 GMT
A few nights ago I was following a seller who had 11 of the Poster stamps from the series shown in the previous post. I was missing 3 from the series so I thought I'd try and add to my lot as 2 of those missing were on offer. I will jump back to 2016 when I purchased at a Cinderella Stamp Club auction a small lot of these and the hammer price was £32 (Approx $44). But since that time, winning many of the older, classical types of non-postage stamps has become much harder as prices have risen. So when these 2 missing were on offer I was not confident and so it proved. The 11 Poster Stamps sold for a total of over £300 ($416) and I didn't even get to bid !! But in one way it's good news when I think of what I purchased my lot for only 18 months ago !! Here's another.....the scarce Imperf in German !  |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 19, 2018 19:52:35 GMT
EAST GERMANY, 1964. Fund-Raising stamps for the East Germany Olympic team. The stamps were collected and affixed to Olympic folders that were distributed to schools. www.alphabetilately.org/Oly/1964S.htmlInteresting series. If anyone spies one of those folders/leaflets, I'd be most interested ! Spendenmarke !   |
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Post by jamesw on Jul 22, 2018 1:31:16 GMT
Helsinki 1940 - Games cancelled because of WWII - American Olympic Committee  Helsinki 1952 German Olympic Committee  |
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Post by jimwentzell on Aug 7, 2018 1:50:38 GMT
................................... The Official Poster stamps were exact replicas of the Games' publicity Posters by Professor Olle Hjortzberg, which were printed in 16 languages. Chinese was one of them and along with the Japanese variety are the scarcest of the series. (China was not represented at the Games). So I was very happy to receive this one in the mail !! 
Londonbus1, I found this one untied but on a 1949 cover being auctioned online which I hope to win, it is beautiful! I can't remember where, but I posted an image of the SWEDISH language version tied to a cover (dated circa 1912). The auction had not even closed, yet the bidding was WAY over what I wanted to pay. If successful this Chinese-language beauty will cost me around $10, is that in line with what you paid, or am I overpaying...do you mind me asking? Jim Wentzell stampguyaps177-681 |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Aug 7, 2018 6:06:38 GMT
................................... The Official Poster stamps were exact replicas of the Games' publicity Posters by Professor Olle Hjortzberg, which were printed in 16 languages. Chinese was one of them and along with the Japanese variety are the scarcest of the series. (China was not represented at the Games). So I was very happy to receive this one in the mail !!
Londonbus1, I found this one untied but on a 1949 cover being auctioned online which I hope to win, it is beautiful! I can't remember where, but I posted an image of the SWEDISH language version tied to a cover (dated circa 1912). The auction had not even closed, yet the bidding was WAY over what I wanted to pay. If successful this Chinese-language beauty will cost me around $10, is that in line with what you paid, or am I overpaying...do you mind me asking? Jim Wentzell stampguyaps177-681 Jim, $10 is an excellent price. My copy was over double that. I thought I got a good deal too as I had seen the stamp selling for $35+. Good luck, I hope you win it. I am still looking for 3 to complete the series but no luck in a while now. |
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Post by jimwentzell on Aug 23, 2018 18:59:14 GMT
The 1949 cover with the Chinese-language Olympics poster stamp closed at nearly $40, a bit too rich for my blood! Maybe next time.......
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Post by jamesw on Nov 10, 2018 20:32:47 GMT
No doubt stemming from the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics, but country of origin unknown.  |
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Post by daniel on Apr 1, 2021 4:04:53 GMT
The 20th Anniversary of the Re-establishment of the Olympic Games, 1894-1914.
A congress was held in Paris in 1914 and the poster is depicted on these stamps. At this congress the Olympic Flag and the 5 rings symbol were established. In addition, an athletics event (not an Olympic Games, it wasn't an Olympics year) was held at the Chatby Stadium in Alexandria, Egypt and the Olympic Flag was flown for the first time. A similar event scheduled for Riga was cancelled due to the imminence of World War I, although a poster stamp was issued.
Here are 3 of the 5 stamps issued.
 Scan_20210401 (2) by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by cursus on Apr 1, 2021 9:16:52 GMT
On a very different style are the cinderellas issued for the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, showing the mascot "Cobi"
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Post by jaysee on Apr 1, 2021 14:06:50 GMT
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Post by daniel on Apr 2, 2021 19:10:40 GMT
In 1900 the Olympic Games was part of the Paris Universal Exposition but this was not well publicised. There was no Olympics poster and no Olympics poster stamps even though there were hundreds of poster stamps for the Exposition. Alphabetilately shows some of these on this website including a part sheet of the Pavilions stamps with a distinctive left hand damaged selvedge. That part sheet (and, indeed, the image) is mine and no-one asked me for permission to use it! Still, I guess we've all done something similar  Here it is (It actually consists of 6 columns but that was all that I could fit on the scanner):  Paris Exposition Sheet by Daniel, on Flickr |
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Post by daniel on Apr 3, 2021 22:10:51 GMT
A mix of Olympics items. The first is a label from Emery Worldwide, an American freight forwarding company founded in 1946. Subject to various takeovers they ceased operating at the end of 2001 but revived by UPS in 2020. Noted as the official air freight and express service for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The label shows the official poster.
Next two more stamps for the 1912 Olympics from Czechoslovakia and Russia.
Below, we have a nice sheet of facsimile postage stamps from Germany showing the first Olympic Games postage stamps from Greece for the first modern games of 1896 held in Athens.
Finally, we have yet another anomaly. The International Olympics Committee, IOC, had promised that the Olympics would be held in Greece every 4 years but this didn't sit well with Baron de Coubertin, the founder of the Modern Olympics. As gesture, he allowed Greece to host a Games every 4 years in between the main Olympics but known as the Intercalated Games! 1906 was the first and only such Games. Held in Athens from 22nd April to 3rd May, they were much more successful than the main Olympics up to that time. France came top of the medals table followed by the United States, Greece and Great Britain. However, they are no longer accepted by the IOC as Olympic medals. This poster stamp declares the International Olympic Games, Athens 1906.
 Scan_20210403 (4) by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by daniel on Oct 27, 2021 1:18:26 GMT
This is a complete sheet, in red, from The American Olympic Committee, over 2 scans, for the planned Helsinki/ST Moritz 1940 games that never took place due to the war.
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Post by daniel on May 11, 2022 3:13:36 GMT
Paris 1924, the VIII Olympiad
These were the two designs for 1924 Paris Olympics but also available in different colours. They depict the Olympic salute and the javelin. Printed by Stribick Fally et cie.
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Post by daniel on Nov 13, 2022 2:24:34 GMT
The AFLA, Amateur Fencers League of America, Olympic Fund stamps. circa 1939 for the 1940 Olympics that didn't take place because of the war. Printed by The American Bank Note Company Litho.  |
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Post by daniel on Nov 17, 2022 2:56:48 GMT
The 20th Anniversary of the Re-establishment of the Olympic Games, 1894-1914.
A congress was held in Paris in 1914 and the poster is depicted on these stamps. At this congress the Olympic Flag and the 5 rings symbol were established. In addition, an athletics event (not an Olympic Games, it wasn't an Olympics year) was held at the Chatby Stadium in Alexandria, Egypt and the Olympic Flag was flown for the first time. A similar event scheduled for Riga was cancelled due to the imminence of World War I, although a poster stamp was issued.
So, here is the Riga stamp mentioned above. The Cyrillic wording reads "Second Russian Olympiad in the city of Riga 6-20 July 1914" even though it wasn't actually an Olympiad, see above.  |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Dec 16, 2022 15:26:29 GMT
1932 Games in the USA. The Poster stamp here is for the Danish Fund and is inscribed 'Xnd Olympiade Dansk-Olympisk Maerke'. It depicts the Norse God Thor riding a chariot with lots of adverse weather following ! Issued in sheets of 50 (10x5).  |
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Post by daniel on Jul 12, 2023 22:23:07 GMT
A nice little lot of Olympic Games Cinderellas. Germany 1936, The Brown Ribbon of Germany (which was a horse race held in the Riem racecourse in Munich) in the Olympic Year/Munich/Riem/1936. International Riemer Week 19.2. 29 July' Melbourne Olympic Games 1956 Rome Olympic Games 1960 An Italian Cinderella declaring 'Towards Tokyo 1964. Rimini, International Exhibition of Sport-Olympic Philately 22nd June-6 July 1964' And a similar Cinderella 'Towards Mexico 1968. Rimini. II International Olympiad of Philatelic Art June-July 1968. In the lower group are three larger Olympics Poster stamps for Anvers, Belgium 1920, Germany Berlin 1936 and London 1948. These are likely Esso petrol stickers from 1972.   |
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Post by daniel on Aug 7, 2023 1:05:55 GMT
Three blocks for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics from the USA.  |
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