#Sports Stamps
UEFA EURO 2008 - Children's Drawing
The coming UEFA EURO 2008 will be the largest sports event ever held in Austria, and from 7 to 29 June 2008 the whole of Europe will be under the spell of "the most important triviality in the world", football. During this period, 16 teams will compete for the UEFA EURO Cup in eight different stadiums in Austria and Switzerland - a media event that is being used by countless enterprises to positio
Finland: Two-stamp miniature sheet to be issued for Kimi Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen's 2007 Formula 1 world championship is to be celebrated with stamps. The commemorative issue is a self-adhesive miniature sheet bearing two 1st class non-value indicator stamps. The miniature sheet will be issued on 5 September 2008. The reigning world champion will get his stamp on the verge of the Belgian Grand Prix, two days before the start of the qualifying round. The designer
Australian Open 2008 Personalised Stamp Sheet
The 2008 Australian Open personalised stamp sheet features four well of today's best known players on the selvedge of the stamp sheet. (Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Lleyton Hewitt and Serena Williams) The sheet of 10 x 50c stamps features the Globe stamp (from 2003) with a generic image in the personalised stamp tab. Issue date: 14 January 2008
Warne makes his mark on Caribbean stamps
Shane Warne may have gone from Test cricket but on the palm-fringed beaches of the Caribbean, his image lives on. The island nation of Grenada has released a series of 24 postage stamps depicting various images of the spin champion and world-record Test wicket taker. "Grenada Post, on behalf of the West Indies government of Grenada, is releasing a full collection of national stamps to honour Shane
Ireland's first ever Moving Stamps mark 2006 Ryder Cup
The country's first ever lenticular stamp will be issued by An Post today to celebrate The 2006 Ryder Cup being held in Ireland. The limited edition Ryder Cup stamps feature lenticular images, which appear to move when the stamp is tilted. This innovative design feature has never before been seen on an Irish stamp, has never been used in a Ryder Cup stamp and is rarely seen at all internationally!
New Olympic stamps issued
The two-year countdown toward the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been marked with the issue of four new stamps. The set of stamps depict four very different sports in basketball, fencing, sailing and gymnastics, presumably in order to reflect the diversity of the competition. The State Post Bureau of China and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games have jointly issued the stamps, w
European swimming championship
Hungary Post is marking the 28th European Swimming Championship in Budapest by issuing a commemorative set of stamps. This prestigious event, which has been regularly organised in Europe since 1926, was last staged in Hungary in 1958. Between 26 July and 6 August outstanding swimmers from across the continent will compete in the European Championship at the Alfred Hajos Swimming Pool in the attrac
South Africa look to 2010. New stamp for next World Cup issued
As the dust settles following Italy's triumph at World Cup 2006 in Germany, 2010 hosts South Africa have issued a new stamp to commemorate their staging of the next finals. Students at the Pretoria Open Window Art Academy were asked to submit designs for the new issue, however they were given strict instructions not to use images of football players, any team logos or colors and the stamp had to h
Postage stamp will honor Mickey Mantle
Iowa Baseball great Mickey Mantle will be honored on a postage stamp. The stamp bearing a likeness of the New York Yankees star will be issued in 2006 as part of a "Big Hitters" series. Other stamps in the series will honor Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Mel Ott of the New York Giants. Marv Diemer, a former state legislator from Cedar Falls, has been pushing for the Mantle stamp since
