| Gerneral information Olympic vignettes:
Vignettes are no Olympic postal stamps but advertising stamps. Long
before the respective Olympic Games they were expended for promotional
purposes.
Most of the vignettes have been issued by private persons, where `as
official vignettes are rather rare. Often vignettes can be found on envelopes
additional to the normal freight terms.
The advertising stamps were expended for free and there is no face value
imprinted onto them. Basically, they are small posters, that promote the
respective upcoming Olympic Games. Advertising stamps with an imprinted
face value are considered donation stamps. |
