AJ's Topical Stamp Collecting Guide : Sports

's Encyclopedia of Stamps and Philatelic Links
Topical Collecting: Sports and Games


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Felix Berkovich,
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Internationale Motivgruppe Olympiaden und Sport
(FIPO Deutschland) In German only.

Olympic Philately, Numismatic and Memorabilia Commission (OPNMC)

The Commission "is responsible for advising the IOC on the dissemination of the Olympic ideal through the worldwide promotion of stamps, coins and items commemorating the Olympic Games."

And under the heading: "Stamps at the origin"

"Collecting items commemorating the Olympic Games started with the first Games of the modern era in 1896.

Olympic stamps, issued to balance the budget of the Organising Committee, were the first objects of Olympic collecting, and have been the passion of several generations of philatelists. Collectors of Olympic memorabilia soon joined stamp collectors and, in 1951, when Olympic coins were struck for the first time, coin enthusiasts also entered the world of Olympic collectors." International

Sports Philatelists International

SPI is a member of the American Philatelic Society, the American Topical Association and is the U.S. member of the Federation International de Philatelie Olympique.

Peter Laimins, E-mail

Baseball

Ed Stephan's Baseball Stamps list

plus articles on the subject.

Also a listing of 'demographic' stamps

E-mail Ed

www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/webstuff/es.stamps.baseball.html ('404' c.2011)

Chess

Clubs:

Chess On Stamps Study Unit ^{ATA-11,
APS-05}

Publication: Chesstamp Review

editor, Jon Edwards jedwards.chess@gmail.com (c.2011)
COSSU (incl. Chess Stamps, Postal Stationery & Covers) is an affiliate of the American Philatelic Society (APS) and the American Topical Association (ATA) and is a non-profit organization dedicated to chess philately and open to anyone interested in this area. (good set of links too - aj c.2011)

Chess Philatelists Society, UK (c.?)

10 Watling Court, Cow Hill, Norwich, NR2 1HA, England

Gemeinschaft der Schachmotivsammler (GSM) (c.2011; in German)

(German Association of Chess thematic collectors; about 400 members)

(aka: Chess on Stamps Club (COSC)

Contact: Herbert Roeder (@), Italy

(speaks English)

old: 199.166.223.32/gsm/indexe.htm (GSM On-line)

Motiefgroep Schaken – Netherlands

Contact: Nico van der Plas (cf.), @, .nl

Vlaamse Schaak-Philatelisten (VSP)

– Belgium

Publication: De Schaakphilatelist (in Dutch)

Mr. Eddy Bruyns, Tel. 03. 288.49.72., URL

Postbus 3, 2650 Edegem, Belgium

Personal websites:

Chess On Stamps, by Colin Rose

The original and best. aj.

Alt. URL

Chess on Stamps - Steve Trussell, @
Other topical stamp pages at this site: (c.2011 the data is c.2001)

Detective Fiction on Stamps

The Philatelic Sherlock Holmes

Robert Louis Stevenson on Stamps

Anti-smoking on Stamps

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

old: www2.gol.com/users/steve/f_stamps.htm '404'

Chess Stamps, By Alberto Borges, (@)

(Alberto Cabral de Mello Borges, Brazil)

Chess on Stamps - Nico van der Plas (cf.), @, .nl

Old: http://www1.tip.nl/~t175549/chessstamps.html '404' c.2011

Chess on Stamps - Riccardo Andreis, .it

users.libero.it/ricky.and/ ('forwards' c.2011)

Chess on Stamps - Roberto Cassano

also has (had) work on cancels

old: geocities.com/Colosseum/5286/artfilat.htm '404' c.2010

Zaremba Artur wants to trade Chess on Stamps

A 'Live' e-mail link

Stan Steliga's NetChess

Play online chess - a free service - cool. aj.

Stan also hosts a couple of chess webrings.

The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, by David Shenk (2007):
(contains several chess stamp images.)

Football (aka: Soccer)

Football and Philately

These pages trace the history and excitement of the AFL (Australian Football League; Soccer, Rugby - all football types) and it's clubs using philatelic items such as... "Stamps, Booklets, Postmarks, Covers & Overprinted PSE's, Postcards & Maximum Cards, Meter Stamps, Slogans & Prepaid Stamps, Cinderellas. (Member of Sports Philatelists International and Thematics Queensland & Includes his ' Listing of Australian Football related Philatelic items and Want List'. ; has a good page on the origins of football. c.2011) - e-mail: Mr Paul Davies