When the New Zealand Maori rugby team played their first ever game and won, they set the standard for all the games to follow. They also established a playing culture and style for which they have since become famous, in New Zealand and around the world.

Since that first game 100 years ago, New Zealand Maori rugby teams have been an inspiration for generations of young, talented players – offering a pathway to sporting excellence, and providing New Zealand with a representative team renowned for its pride, tenacity and moments of sheer sporting brilliance.

In this new stamp release, (read more)

published June 8th, 2010

As was expected and as we already mentioned in our earlier posts, postal administrations have now commenced issuing stamps for the World Cup this month in time for the event Kick-Off.

The Philatelic Bureau of MaltaPost p.l.c. will be issuing a set of 2 stamps and a Miniature sheet commemorating the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup. The set entitled 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA will be issued on the day of the opening match of the tournament – 11 June 2010. The FIFA World Cup will take place between the 11 June and 11 July 2010 and will be hosted in South Africa.

The stamps and the Miniature sheet have been designed by a local artist Frank (read more)

published June 6th, 2010

There’s no escaping it – World Cup fever is on the way and once again the philatelic world will promote the biggest sporting tournament in the Universe.

The match tickets are rapidly selling out, people around the world are buying larger than life TV’s despite the tough economic crisis and thousands of young children are collecting the popular match cards at schools throughout the countries.

Postal Administrations have been issuing World Cup stamps for many decades but interest on these philatelic items seem to be deteriorating.

For the 2010 South Africa World Cup, the first commemorative issue was (read more)

published June 2nd, 2010

From the 11th of June to the 11th July, 2010, South Africa will host the 19th edition of the football world cup, organised by FIFA every four years for the greatest men’s national teams.

On the left the stamp depicts the official FIFA WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA 2010 logo, on the right two footballers in action and a football leaving a trail of the official FIFA logo representative colours. The stamp is completed by the legend “SAN MARINO”, the value “1,50”, the printing institute, the year of issue and the stamp designer “B&AR”.

• Issue: 17th of March
• Values one value of € 1,50
• Print run n. 80,000 sets printed on sheets of 20 stamps
• Printing four colour offset by Joh. Enschedé
• Perforations 14X131/4
• Stamp size 40×30 mm.
• Designs by B&AR

published January 29th, 2010

A stamp has been issued by Croatia Post for the Winter Olympic Games to be held in Canada. The stamp is very elegant and colourful with the main theme of the design being the official logo of the 2010 games.

From 12 to 28 February 2010 the Canadian city of Vancouver (about two million inhabitants) will host the world’ s best winter sportsmen and sportswomen – alpinists and biathlonists, hockey players and skaters, ski jumpers and speed skaters…It will be for the second time in history that Canada organizes winter Olympic games. In 1988 Calgary was the first Canadian city to represent the second largest state in the world as the organizer of this respectful competition. It will also be for the 6th time that Winter Olympic Games are held in North America. Apart from Calgary winter Olympic Games were hosted by US towns: Lake Placid in 1932, Squaw Valley in 1960, Lake Placid again in 1980 and Salt Lake City in 2002.

First Winter Olympic Games (read more)

published January 10th, 2010