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Olympic
Games
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Amsterdam
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1928
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The
Netherlands
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8 special postage stamps were published 1928
First Day: 27. March 1928
Engraver: ?
Designer: F. Mees and L. Wenckebach
| Value |
Color / Discription |
Stanley
Gibbons No. |
Michel No. |
Edition |
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1 1/2 (+1 C) |
green
Sculler |
363 |
205 |
502.570 |
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2 (+1 C) |
purple
Fencer |
364 |
206 |
428.592 |
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3 (+1 C) |
green
Footballer |
365 |
207 |
461.657 |
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5 (+1 C) |
blue
Yachting |
366 |
208 |
526.485 |
| 7 1/2 (+2 1/2 C) |
orange
Putting the weight |
367 |
209 |
545.599 |
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10(+2 C) |
red
Marathon runner |
368 |
210 |
542.787 |
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15
(+2 C) |
blue
Horseman |
369 |
211 |
449.856 |
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30
(+3 C) |
sepia
Boxer |
370 |
212 |
316.186 |
Valid to: 31.12.1928
| OLYMPIC POSTAGE STAMPS 1928
was considered an important item, so the Committee
accordingly approached
the Postmaster General and the scheme- had his ear. He promised his
cooperation,
and eight stamps were eventually designed representing, as illustrated,
By selling the stamps at a price higher than their
face value there
would be a margin of profit, which would go to the Committee. The
scheme
yielded no less than 50.000 guilders, an amount which surpassed all
expectations.
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just prior to and immediately
after the Games a huge number of stamps must have been bought by the
public
in a comparatively short time. Many of these probably found their way
to
collectors abroad.
The Post Office on the Stadium grounds even
instituted a separate selling
organisation which issued forms with a full set of Olympic postage
stamps
cancelled with the Stadium stamp, and an explanation in Esperanto. This
evidently proved most attractive, for about 9000 of these forms were
sold.
An illustration shows the form with the special Stadium stamp which was
used by the post office officials to cancel letters, etc. posted at the
Stadium Post Office.
For the benefit of those who required a fairly large number of the
Olympic
stamps, but had no wish to wait in the long queues which formed up at
the
counters in those days, the authorities circulated order forms, on
which
anyone desirous of purchasing postage stamps could state what was
required.
The stamps ordered were in due course delivered to the person or firm
in
question after the necessary terms of payment were or had been complied
with. A most valuable means of propaganda, for which the Committee is
extremely
indebted to the Post Office Authorities, was the cancelling stamp with
an announcement of the Olympic Games at Amsterdam. This stamp was used
on all mails leaving Amsterdam during the three months, April—June
1928,
and as the letters, postcards, etc. bearing the announcement
were
automatically distributed throughout the world it was an
important
item especially inour foreign propaganda campaign.This cooperation on
the
part of the Postmaster General was highly appreciated by the
Committee.
The cancelling stamp used as propa-
ganda on postal matter for some
months prior to the Games.
(Source
document: Official
Report 1928, page 225)
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