FREE: US MINT NEVER HINGED PLATE BLOCK SCOTT # 1460 Cycling

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US MINT NEVER HINGED PLATE BLOCK SCOTT # 1460

Cycling
Date Issued: 1972-08-17
Postage Value: 6 cents

Commemorative issue
1972 Summer & Winter Olympic Games
Cycling
The Olympic Games has cycling competition both in road and track events. The Union Cycliste Internationale, of which the United States was one of five charter members in 1900, governs all amateur and professional cycling events. More than 110 nations now belong. Parc de St. Cloud, France, was the site in 1868 of the first bicycle race. Recognized world championships were first conducted in 1893. The Tour de France is cycling's most famous international event. Major road races in the Western Hemisphere include the Tour du St. Laurente, the Quebec Montreal, the Coors Classic, and the Tour of Mexico. Track events, races on a specially constructed symmetrical and oval surface with two straight sections, include individual and tandem sprint races...note : all stamps shipped asap and/or with in 7 day close of auction.

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pickup : terre haute ,in 47807

mint stamp gum

: unused - a stamp that is not cancelled (used) , yet has had all the original gum removed. on early u.s. issues this is the condition that the majority of mint stamps exist in , as early collectors often soaked the gum off their stamps to avoid the possibility of gum drying and splitting

original gum (og) - a stamp that still retains the adhesive APPLIED when the stamp was made, yet has been hinged or has had some of gum removed.

never hinged (nh) - a stamp that is in " post office " condition with full gum that has never been hinged .