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The First Stamp with Soccer Motif

I’m back from holiday, and so unfortunately I missed the Football final with this post. Let’s see some motif philately:
Although Uruguay issued a stamp in 1924 in honor of the football gold medal at the Olympics, the sport itself does not appear on the stamp’s image.

The first stamp with a real footbal motif is thus to be found in the Hungarian Sport set, published in 1925.

This stamp series was ahead of its time in showing sport, as it was not common to show such subjects on stamps at that time, so I will post about more of its value soon.

soccer stamp

The Failed Match & The Failed Stamp

Hungary’s 1954 FIFA World Cup winning stamp was a failure, as the Hungarian team also failed to win. The Hungarians were certain to win (depending on their previous results against the Germans), so 2 million stamps were produced to celebrate the victory. On the night of 4 July 1954, all hope was lost and the government ordered all 2 million stamps destroyed. Some sheets were stolen that night, so the issue survived the devastation and was reborn as a rarity of European philately. The price of a single stamp is now around EUR 2000.

1954 world cup
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