Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

Olympic & Paralympic Games 2012 - 27 July 2010

The London 2012 Games commences on 27 July and concludes on 12 August.  The Paralympic Games commences on 29 August and concludes on 9 September. Royal Mail will commemorate London’s hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by issuing three sets of 10 x 1st Class stamps in the run up to the London 2012 Games in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

The concept is to issue 30 stamps to mark the 30th Olympiad and London 2012 Paralympic Games. Each of the sporting areas celebrated in these Games will have its own stamp.  And each of the 30 stamps will be created by a different contemporary artist, illustrator or designer.  The first set of 10 was issued in 2009, with retail booklets earlier this year.


Pre-olympic stamps showing Rowing, Shooting, Modern Pentathlon, Taekwondo, Cycling, Table Tennis, Hockey, Football, Goalball, Boxing.

Sheet 1: Paralympic Rowing, Shooting, Modern Pentathlon, Taekwondo, Cycling;
Sheet 2: Paralympic Table Tennis, Hockey, Football, Paralympic Goalball, Boxing
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Sports from each of the Olympic disciplines were selected to illustrate the subject of each stamp.  The Olympic Games comprises 26 different sporting disciplines, such as Cycling. Cycling includes several different events where medals are won – including road racing, various time trials and velodrome races as well as mountain biking events and BMX. Many gold medals can be won in different events, and all will be symbolised by one Cycling stamp symbolising the sport of Cycling.

The Paralympic Games features 21 sports, such as Judo (which is also competed in the Olympic Games), as well as Paralympic specific events such as Goalball. 

In all, 29 different sports are played at the Olympics and Paralympics. There will be one stamp design for each sport with the exception of athletics which will be presented across two stamps as Athletics: Track and Athletics: Field, hence 30 sport stamps.

Royal Mail’s design team with David Hillman, from Studio David Hillman, set to work allocating each sport to one of the quality image makers who agreed to work on this three-year project. Royal Mail also consulted with the sports’ governing bodies and specialist clubs for each stamp. Each stamp has the London 2012 Olympic or Paralympic logo in the lower corner.

Commemorative Sheet

The Commemorative Sheet contains all ten stamps with se-tenant labels, and the illustrated folder contains interviews with Olympic hopefuls including Goalball players Anna and Michael Sharkey by Richard Rae.  The sheet is A4 size with braille printing on the back of the folder.

2010 Olympic/Paralympic Commemorative Sheet.

Retal Booklet

The retail booklet contains 4 Machin 1st class definitives and the Rowing and Table Tennis Olympic stamps.

Olympic/Paralympic book 3 issued 27 July 2010.


Technical details:
The stamps' designers are listed below.  The overall design task was by Studio David Hillman, and the 35mm square stamps are printed in litho by Cartor Security Printing, perf 14½ with all-over phosphor.  The stamps are printed in two sheets of 25 (5 each of 5 designs in vertical columns), enabling collectors to buy vertical strips of any single sport/discipline.

The Presentation Pack and FDC are designed by GBH.  The pack, printed by Walsall Security Printers, has information about each of the sports by Ian Cole, former News Sports Editor of the Daily Mail, who also wrote the text on the FDC filler card.

The Commemorative Sheet is designed by True North.   We expect that the Commemorative sheet will be printed by Cartor.

Designers:
Rowing: Marian Hill; Shooting: David Hillman; Modern Pentathlon: Katherine Baxter; Taekwondo: James Fryer; Cycling: Matthew Dennis, Table Tennis: Michael Craig Martin; Hockey: Darren Hopes; Football: Alex Williamson; Goalball: Tobatron, Boxing: Stephen Ledwidge


Product range

Mint Stamps
Presentation Pack
First Day Cover
Set of 10 Stamp Cards
Retail booklet
Commemorative Sheet


Special Postmarks

Special postmarks available for the day of issue are shown here (not to scale). More may be added later.

Official Philatelic Bureau FD postmark for Olympic and Paralympic stamps 2010. Official Rowington FD postmark for Olympic and Paralympic stamps 2010. Official Rowington non-pictorial first day of issue postmark. Stratford Countdown postmark for Olympic and Paralympic stamps 2009. postmark showing Bicycle - Olympic issue 2009.
Ref FD1029
Official Philatelic Bureau FD postmark
Ref FD1030
Official Rowington FD postmark
Ref FD918NP  Official Rowington non-pictorial FD postmark will be as above, dated 27.07.2010 Ref L11517
Countdown to London 2012, Stratford E16. Games of the XXX Olympiad
Ref L11799
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, London

postmark showing rower. postmark showing cylcist. postmark showing table tennis. postmark showing swimmer. postmark showing cyclist.
Ref L11797 Sporting Disciplines Retail Booklet, Dorney, Windsor Ref M11806 Sporting Disciplines, Raleigh Close, Birmingham Ref M11807 Sporting Disciplines Stamp Book
The Tennis Court, Birmingham
Ref M11808 Tribute to Rebecca Adlington, Double Olympic Gold Medallist, Mansfield Nottingham Ref W11812 Tribute to Nicole Cooke, World & Olympic Champion 2008, Wick Vale of Glamorgan
Postmark showing Wembley Stadium. Postmark showing Olympic flame. Postmark showing winners' podium. Postmark. Postmark showing international mountain biking association UK logo.
Ref L11804 Sporting Disciplines, Wembley, London Ref L11801 Sporting Disciplines, London Ref L11802 Sporting Disciplines, London Ref L11803 Sporting Disciplines, Greenwich Park, London SE10 Ref L11798 International Mountain Biking Association UK, London.
Postmark showing medal on ribbon. Postmark showing Union flag.


Ref L11557
Stratford, London, E15
Ref L11570 Sporting Disciplines Retail Booklet London W2.


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This page updated 15 July 2010.


2010 stamp issues
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January
7 Classic Album Covers
7 Olympic Games retail book 1
26 Business & Customised Smilers MS
February
2 Girl Guide Centenary
25 350th ann of the Royal Society
25 Olympic Games retail book 2
March
1 Castles of Wales
11 Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
23 House of Stewart
30 Machin & Country Definitives
30 Festival of Stamps retail advertising book
April
13 Endangered Mammals
May
6 Accession of George V*
8 The King's Stamps* &
London 2010 Souvenirs *
13
Britain Alone (1940)*
* London 2010 Festival of Stamps issues
18 Halley's Comet Commemorative Sheet
June
15 House of Stuart
15 Endangered Mammals Retail Booklet
July
8 British Grand Prix Commemorative Sheet
27
Olympics & Paralympics II
& Olympic Games retail book 3

August
10 London Eye Commemorative Sheet
19 Great British Railways I
19 Retail booklets: 12x2nd, 6x1st
September
15 Battle of Britain - Spitfire Generic Sheet & Retail booklet
16 Medical Breakthroughs
17 Faststamps: Bird pictorials
October
12 Children's Books
12 Olympic Games retail book 4
26 Special Delivery Machins
28 Remembrance: the National Arboretum
November
2 Christmas - Wallace & Gromit

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