U.S. Olympic Games Stamp Gallery
The U.S. Postal Service has a long tradition of celebrating the Olympic Games on stamps. These issues cover a wide variety of sports but have in common unique designs and lots of color.
5¢ Olympic Games stamp has a retail value of about $2.20 as an unused single. But a plate block is valued at $20 ($25 for never-hinged). Therefore, an unused plate block has a value nearly 2½ times greater than four single unused stamps.
Olympiade gioce: (It.) Olympic games (thematic).
Olympic Couriers: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971.
Olympic Games: common design on stamps of Portugal and Colonies, 1972.
Since 1968 stamps have been issued to celebrate Australia's participation in the Olympic Games. Go for gold Australia!
The first Australian stamp pack featured the 50th Anniversary of the first UK / Australian Flight, and was issued in November 1969.
Postal Card issued by Sweden in 1996, with a reproduction, both on picture side and as the stamp, of the poster issued to advertise the Olympic Games of 1912.
'Vancouver overprint' - rush printing of the 48c Flag over Canada Post building inscribed in red "Vancouver/2010", issued July 11, 2003, just 9 days after the 21st Winter Olympic Games of 2010 were awarded to the Vancouver-Whistler, BC region.
Suppose you collect stamps showing sports subjects and your best friend collects stamps showing ships. If your friend has a stamp about the Olympic Games , which he or she doesn't want to keep; and you have 2 copies of a stamp showing a ship , ...
The Greeks conveyed the names of the victors at the Olympic Games to their various cities by this means. Before the telegraph this method of communication had a considerable vogue amongst stockbrokers and financiers.
15¢ Black Olympians, Runners in the 22nd Summer Olympic Games, Moscow
9/28/79
0.25 ...
Anatoly Karpov, the former world chess champion is also a popular stamp collector specializing in chess and Olympics-themed stamps. His famous stamp collection ranges from the commemorative stamps of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens up to ...
 See also: Olympic, Stamp, Used, Catalog, Cover
  
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