FREE: US MINT NEVER HINGED PLATE BLOCK SCOTT # C85 Skiing & Olympic rings

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US MINT NEVER HINGED PLATE BLOCK SCOTT # C85

Skiing & Olympic rings
Date Issued: 1972-08-18
Postage Value: 11 cents

Commemorative issue
11th Winter Olympic Games, Sapporo, Japan
Skiing & Olympic rings
Nationalism has left its mark on the Olympic Games, beginning with the 1936
Games in Berlin.

The Nazis built a powerful team through nationalized training and dominated the
games.

The next surge of such nationalism was 1956, when Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon
boycotted the Melbourne Games to protest Anglo-French seizure of the Suez
Canal. The Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland also boycotted to protest the
USSR's invasion of Hungary.

American black athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos used the victory stand to
publicize U.S. racial policies at the 1968 Games at Mexico City...note : all stamps shipped asap and/or with in 7 day close of auction.

all item shipped free

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 .