Olympics

U.N. Vienna, Page UNV-96.2 (BL-3)

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The souvenir sheet at the bottom of this album page were issued in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the modern Olympics. The first modern Olympics were played in 1896: the Summer Games in Athens, Greece where the Olympics started in 8th Century b.c.e and lasted until the 4th Century c.e. The fir modern Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924.

For the one-hundredth anniversary of the modern games, the 1996 Summer Games were held in Atlanta in the U.S. The artwork for the sourvenir sheet and related U.N. stamps were painted by LeRoy Neiman, a U.S. painter who was fairly popular at the time for expressionist paintings of sports atheletes and sporting events. I despise his artwork.

Note

The first set of stamps is part of the Endangered Species series. Previous ones mostly depicted animals and birds. You can see another set of them and read more about them on the Endangered Species Trade page in the New York album.

The set of stamps in the middle of the page are relaed to the City Summit in Istanbul. See the Habitat II page in the Geneva album for more on it.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Endangered Species

1.1	✓	196	Lady-Slipper Orchid	7s (mar 1996) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	197	Aztekium Ritteri	7s (mar 1996) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	198	Euphorbia Cremersii	7s (mar 1996) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	199	Dracula Bella	7s (mar 1996) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	200	Habitat II	6s (jun 1996) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	201	Habitat II	6s (jun 1996) comm., multicolor
3.3	✓	202	Habitat II	6s (jun 1996) comm., multicolor
3.4	✓	203	Habitat II	6s (jun 1996) comm., multicolor
3.5	✓	204	African Elephant	6s (jun 1996) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	207	Olympic Games One-Hundredth Anniversary	13s (jul 1996) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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