Sunday 20 September 2020

Ice Motion


1991: Inauguration of Inter-City Express (ICE)

A high speed train rushes past whoosh - its Germany's ICE train speeding its passengers onward, perhaps to

1983: Maximum Card - Ice Hockey World Championships

an Ice Hockey game.   The card shows the photo of an attack scene on which the designer based

1983: Sports Promotion Fund (Design - Professor Rothacker)  

his stamp design.  The World and European Championships were held in Germany in 1983 and the postmark shows one of the host cities - Dortmund.  The stamp was issued by West Berlin.

1955: Airmail - Winter Sports (Design - F Gal)
Today's technical sports clothing is very different from the past when it looks like you just pulled on a thick woolly jumper to play ice hockey.
1955: Winter Sports (Design - J Vertel)
Still on ice two speed skaters zoom past

1955: Airmail: Winter Sports (Design - J Vertel)
More appropriate for an airmail stamp is a ski jumper taking to the air.
1955: Winter Sports (Designn - F Gal)
or the cross country skier travelling long distances.
1988: World Speedway Championships (Design - J Fabriciuis)

Not a sport that wants either snow or ice for its high speed duels.  The stamp was issued in anticipation of the  individual speedway championships at the Vojens Speedway Centre in September 1988.

1995: Borussia Dortmund Football Champions 1995
For silky skills and fast moving feet the football kicked off here last weekend although unlike Germany we still have no spectators. 

Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Motion - move on for more at See It On A Postcard





 
 

 



3 comments:

violet s said...

Fashions sure are different for these athletes.
Hochgeschwindigkeitszug is not exactly a high speed word to say!

Mail Adventures said...

The train stamp is too cool!

Bob Scotney said...

When I saw ICE my first thoughts were of Immigration & Customs Enforcement in the USA. Much better to see the winter ports stamps.