Ice hockey and its cousins, field hockey and roller hockey, have all been illustrated on stamps, but only ice hockey stamps have featured officials. Referees and umpires for soccer and baseball are the best represented group on stamps, but many sports have only a handful of officials depicted on stamps. Sports philately has become one of the prominent topical collecting specialties.ĭespite the subject’s popularity, I estimate that in the universe of sports stamps less fewer than one percent includes a referee, umpire, judge, scorekeeper, timer, or other official. Since then, the number of issues has skyrocketed, topping 47,000 in 1990. By 1960, the total was just over 2,100 sports stamps. Sports philately began to take off in the 1930s and the pace picked up so that by 1950 the total had risen to 842. The set of eight semi-postal stamps included skiing, skating, swimming, diving, fencing, soccer, and track.
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It wasn’t until 1925 that Hungary issued the first sports series that was not Olympics related. The first sport stamps were a set of 12 issued by Greece in 1896 for the Athens inaugural Olympics issues related to the Olympic games have predominated ever since. Check back weekly for new articles.Īs a former sports official for more than a dozen sports, I found a real challenge when beginning a thematic collection of sports officials on stamps. During the month of May, the newsroom will be featuring a series of ice hockey articles celebrating Ice Hockey Philately presented by the American Philatelic Society and The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada in the May issue of The American Philatelist, available to read now.
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