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’ SPORTING STAMPS
No one has to tell
Canadian stamp collectors

about stamps featuring
sport — many have heen
issued by the Canadian Post.
Office over the past year to
help publicize and finance
the Olympic Games of 1976.

An earlier Olympic
Games — the one in London
in 1948 — was featured on
Britain’s first sporting
stamps. And since then they
have. issued stamps

. covering their favourite
sports and games — cricket,
running, sailing, swimmin

and, of course ..... football.

When the British issued

their Olympics stamps, they

did not have the promotional

program used by the
Canadian Post Office. They
simply issued four stamps

with designs more symbolic
than sporting: they showed
the Globe, the Olympic
- symbol, Victory and Speed.
Alternating with the

Olympic Games are the

British Empire and Com-
monwealth Games. These
were staged in Cardiff,
Wales in 1958 and the British
issued three stamps — the
designs featuring variations.
of the Welsh national
* symbol, the Dragon.

Edinburgh hosted ‘the
Games in 1970. And although
the three stamps were again
symbolic in nature, they did
feature sporting events. The
designer tried to capture
using
repeated images in his
designs. ‘

The same designer — —

_ Andrew Restall — designed
the 1975 British sailin
stamps. The stamps, whic
showed sailing dinghies,
‘racing-keel boats, cruising
yachts and multi-hulls were
especially interestin
because they were print
in both recess and
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Collectors keen on sailing
stamps could also feature

the single stamp issued in .

1967 in honour of the late Sir
Francis Chichester who
sailed alone around the
world; the stamp shows his:
“Gipsy Moth IV”. .
But the British — as
everyone knows — prefer
cricket and football to other
“sports, In 1966, the World
up Footbali Cham-
pionships were held in
Englani
Post Office issued three
stamps showing footballers
in aetion. And then, when
they won the Cup, they
reissued one of the stamps
with the words “England
Winners" inscribed upon it.
The stamps were so popular
that most offices were sold
out in hours: -
: Cricket — the most
English of sports -- was
featured on three stamps in
1973 to mark ‘the centenary
of the county cham-
pionships. Most counties in
England have their own
cricket team and these
teams play each other in

summer to get the cricket |

championship. The three
cricket stamps featured
drawings of the cricketer,
W.G. Grace by Harry
Furniss.
> There are, of course, two
weeks in the British sum-
mer when cricket takes a
back seat — the fortnight
when the Lawn Tennis
Championships are being

and the British |

held at Wimbledon. The first
Wimbledon Championships
were held in 1877 and ‘the
British Post -Office is
marking this centenary with
four more stamps to add toa
sports collection.

The four stamps feature

racket sports and again ©

have been designed by

Andrew Restall. He has ©

captured the idea of
movement by showin
layers in action an
acing the path of the bail
over several moves. The

8p stamp shows lawn

tennis; the 10p stamp shows

table tennis — appropriale

for the World Table Tennis
Championships for 1977 are
being held in Britain;. the
11p stamp shows squash and

badminton is featuredon the —

13p stamp. ,
One of the most unusual
sports stamps from Britain
came out this year in
celebration of Highland

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