Exceptional collection of FIFA World Cup ™ philately, consisting of 7,000+ individual items: 4,100+ stamps (perf/imperf), sheets, cinderellas, 1,850+ miniature sheets, 800+ FDCs/covers/(post)cards etc, organized in following chapters:
• Football at the Summer Olympics 1924-1928, seen as the precursor to the FIFA World Cup competition of today
• FIFA World Cup ™ 1930-1978
• Philately, issued after 1978, but related to FIFA World Cup ™ 1930-1978, like stamp-on-stamps or overprints etc.
• 1964 – 60th Anniversary of FIFA
• 1979 - 75th Anniversary or FIFA
• 1984 - 80th Anniversary of FIFA
• 2004 - 100th Anniversary or FIFA
• 2005 - 75th Anniversary of the 1st FIFA World Cup in Uruguay
• History of, and tribute to, the FIFA World Cup
• Philately, issued by their admission to FIFA
For example highlights:
• 1924: Unique exclusive card from France designed by L. H. Roowy. Special stamps from Uruguay (light as well as dark colored, and with special cancellation), and exceptional folder with the stamps printed on unique yellow paper from Uruguay (with certificate).
• 1928: Beautiful cards designed by G. Hofer. Special cards designed by Elce. A number of unique and scare Olympic stamps. 6 beautiful Esperanto souvenir sheets (3x N1-N3 without a “star”, 3x N1-N3 with a “star” on the top of the word “Amsterdam”). Special 1928 stamps and covers issued by The Netherlands. Exceptional stamps from Uruguay (standard, gutter pair, and perfin with Star and Cloverleaf), and of course the unique folder from Uruguay with certificate which was a gift to the authorities and players celebrating the "Amsterdam 1928" victory.
• 1930: Special 1930 football cancellations. Exceptional original covers and postcards, and one original poster stamp.
• 1934: The series themselves are particular, but certainly the specimen (SAGGIO) series. A large number of these SAGGIO stamps have been handwritten signed (“ED”) by Enzo Diena on the backside. Also, for the first time, a stamp has been designed by a woman… It was Mrs. Liana Ferri. See also the nice cards.
• 1938: Unique postcard from France designed by Joe Bridge. A4-stamp block with date issued. Special cinderella, and a rare lady's cover, mailed 22 December 1938 from Gare PLM (Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée). Also, the only official 1938 FIFA World Cuptm stamp issued with printed margins with all issued dates (6x) – VERY RARE.
• 1950: Special items from Brazil and Uruguay - perforated and imperforated. A very nice folder from Uruguay. From the imperforated stamp from Brazil only 33 or 35 exists (certified). From the very exceptional imperforated stamps of Uruguay, only very very few exist - probably only 1 or 2 sheets!!. In addition you find very attractive covers from both countries.
• 1954: Special Hungarian cancellations. Exceptional cover Liechtenstein. Special cards, covers, stamps and full sheet from Switzerland. A very exclusive poster stamp from Swissair commemorating the 1954 FIFA World Cuptm.
• 1958: Extraordinary perforated Russian Line 12½ stamp. One of the most complete collection of football postcards (Haskel Propaganda) and special covers from Sweden commemorating the FIFA World Cuptm in Sweden (the collection is seen by the Swedish Philately Association as one of the most complete collection). Exceptional stamp overprinted with an England-Sweden cancellation. Unique Sweden Esperanto football sheets and stamps.
• 1962: Rare 1962 full sheet from Brazil. A book and printed page commemorating Memory of the Casa de Moneda de Chile 1954-1963 including FIFA World Cuptm. Exceptional Deluxe sheets from Chile with First Day cancellation. Special covers from Liechtenstein, Hungary, Poland , the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.
• 1964: Monaco commemorates the 60th anniversary of FIFA with a stamp and several covers.
• 1970: Again a large number of items perforated, imperforated as well as (cardboard deluxe) sheets from a
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