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| 1994: Four Seasons - Summertime Events (Artist - Matthew Cook; Design - Silk Pearce) |
We are right in the middle of Wimbledon and this week's Sunday Stamps letter suits the day to a T so settle down with a bowl of strawberries and cream and watch some tennis.
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| 1998: Famous German Women (Design - Gerd Aretz) |
The first German to win Wimbledon's singles title was
Cilly Aussem (1909-63) in 1931 but whose career was tragically cut short by injury and illness.
No mention of the Wimbledon singles title would be complete without the mention of Roger Federer. The FDC celebrates him holding the ATP record in 2007 of being the World's Number 1 player for 161 consecutive weeks
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| 2007: Roger Federer - Tennis World Champion (Design - Roger Hirter) |
and he is still gliding across the court and breaking records this year. The stamp shows him holding the glitzy Wimbledon trophy. The Wimbledon Championships are the oldest in the world held since 1877
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| 1965: History of Tennis (Design - Adam Cziglenyi) |
but the history of tennis is much older although quite unlike today's game. This stamp shows a French 18th Century 'long court'
The 70+30 shows a drawing of a 16th century 'tennys courte' and the 1+50 is a 17th century game. The set consisted of 9 stamps and I live in hope some more will come my way. The set can be seen
here
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| 1996: Olympic Games, Atlanta |
The Olympics can trace its origin back through even older centuries and this is a stamp celebrating both the Atlanta games and the 100th anniversary of the Modern Olympics. Tennis has a long Modern Olympic history but withdrew from the competition in 1924 due to the dispute over how to define amateur players. The dilemma of amateur versus profession meant it did not return as a medal sport until 1988
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| 1984: Olympic Games, Los Angles |
although it was a demonstration sport in 1968 and in the year of the stamp, 1984, there was a competition for under 21s. I like the tennis ball coming at us from the stamp
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| 2000: Sports |
which may be a reminder to keep your eye on the ball.
Sunday Stamps II prompt this week is the Letter T - here for Tennis and Tanzania -
See It On A Postcard
2 comments:
I guess that the Spanish philatelic service would have issued a stamp of Nadal, if only they featured living people on stamps.
You might like these stamps I recently got (last picture of this post).
I've never got into watching tennis, though I do keep up with the players and who wins (or loses). But now I want to learn more about this 16th C and 17th C games!
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