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SOC I AFCOS Exllibiti®h River & Rowing Museum, Hehley 29 September 2001 Society of Olympic Collectors The Society of Olympic Collectors was founded ln 1984. as a philatelic society, and at the start of the new millennium it is still the only English language philatelic society specializing in exclusively(!) the Olympic theme. MEMBERSHIP OF THE SOCIETY 0F OLYMPIC COLLECTORS Membership starts on election, of which applicants wlll be notified, and will last for one calendar year. All back issues of Torch Bearer. the society magazine. for the current year will be sent to members joining during the year. Members may buy and sell through SOC's highly successful quarterly auction. Junior members are those aged under 18 years in the year of joining, subscription rates are half of the adult rate until the 18th birthday. All applic:ations should be made to the Secretary, Miss Paula Burger, address below. Subscription rates for 2001 are: U.K. £10.00; Europe.£12.00(DM40. SUS25, 20). Outside Europe, £17.00 (DM 50. SUS 35) Acceptab/e forms a/peyment Sterling cheques; SUS cheques drawn in USA; Sterling. SUS, or DM currency notes. (Euros from January 2002). COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN & EDITOR BBob Farley. 3 Wain Green, Long Meadow, Worcester. WR4 0HP, Great Britain. rfartevsoc®aol.ccnTi VICE CHAIRMAN BBob Wilcock, 24 Hamilton Crescent, Brentwood. Essex, CM14 5ES. Great Britain. bob®lowlard.freeserve.co.uk SECRETARY Nlss Paula Burger, 19 Hanbury Path. Sheerwater, Woking. Surrey. GU21 5RB, Great Britain. TREASURER & ADVERTISING DDavid Buxton, 88 Bucknell Road. Bicester, Oxon, OX6 8DR, Great Britain. david.buxton®bnc.ox.ac.uk AuCTION MANAGER John Crowther, 3 Hill Drive. Handfortli. Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 3AP. Great Britain. iavell n®i-iscrowther nell i neuk.net LIBRARIAN BACK ISSUES & Ken Cook. 31 Thorn Lane. Rainham, Essex, RM13 9SJ, DISTRIBUTION Great Brifain [email protected]< PRO Brian Hammond. 6 Lanark Road. Ipswich, IP4 3EH. Great Briton BKCPHAM®aol.com SOC-AFCOS Meeting Saturday 29 September 2001 +1 ::¥\-.;!+€ tlREj-LHiHiREfiE Programme Public Exhibition (Olympic & Sports) From 10 a.in Delegates' welcome & coffee Delegates. guided tour of museum Delegates' Lunch with Olympians Including Andrew Lindsay (Gold in the Men's Eight at Sydney) A Welcome from the Chairman of SOC Accueil du Prfesident de la SOC lt gives me great pleasure to welcome C'est avec grand plaisir que j'accueille the visiting members of SOC and auifourd'hui Ious nos invites, membres de la AFCOS to the River and Rowing SOC et de I'AFCOS, a ce Mus6e de la Muselim. particularly those who have Riviere et de I'Aviron, en pariiculier ceux qui travelled real distance. sont venus de loin pour se joindre a nous The id f a joint meeting va8 proposed 000. at about the same\ time that I visited thls`` Venue - planning bega The whole we wes much to a small number of the SOC Committee who have taken on allocated tasks and avec /e Musee, /a British Olympic As`sociation, de jen sor avec I'AFCOS. Dos membre prfec6demment b invrlation de Ia part de I'IMOS et I'OSPC pour leur rendre visite a Berlin, otl un accljeil des plus as chaleureux leur a 6t6 rfeserv6. J'espere que votre visile a Henley sera tout aussi agreable. All collectors should recognise the value of socialising with their colleagues -We Tous les collectionneurs devraienl are pleased to be able to act as a apprfecier la valeur de frequenter leurs catalyst. collegues. Nous sommes heureux de vous donner I'occasion. R K Fariey Chairman Of the Society of olympic Collectors A Message from the President of AFCOS Message du President de I'AFCOS On behalf of the members of AFCOS Au nom des soci6taires de l'AFCOS, je lshould like to thank SOC most tiens a remercier bien sinceremenl la sincerely for having taken the initiative Society of olympic Collectclrs d'avoir of welcoming us so kindly for two days pris I'initla[ive de nous recevoir trfes at Henley and Oxford. gentimenl pendant deux jours a Henley et oxford. Bob Wilcock has bounced back the ball we threw at him at Arcueil like a Bob Wilcock nous a renvoys la balle boomerang, and sooner than we qua rlous avions lanc68 a Aroueil bien anticipated. We must thank him and the plus vile qua plevisiblement comme un SOC Committee. boornerang! Qu'il en soil r8m8rcl6. We in AFCOS are convinced that we Nous sommes persuades qu'il faut must encourage and increase this type encourager et multiplier ce type de of meetlng, e§p8cially among European rencontres enlre nos associations, et societies. tout d'abord entre les clubs europ6ens. On the occasion of this joint meeting Of A I'occasion du prQjet SOC-AFCOS, j'ai SOC and AFCOS I have discovered that d6couvert que beaucoup de nos many of our members have never membres n'ont jamais visits I'Angleterre, visited England. no doubt put off by the sans doule effray6s par la barriere des language barrier. VVIthout doubt, from langues. Sans aucun doule, il taut now on we must conquer these former vaincre dorfenavant ce s vie ux complexes and get down to building a complexes el b5llr sans altendre collectors' Europe. I'Europe des Colleclioneurs. J-P. Picquot This programme has been written. edited Ce programme a 6t6 6crit, edil6 el and compiled by Bob Wilcock. Rene compile par Bob Wilcock. Ren6 Christin Christin wrote the article on Paris 1924. est I'auleur de I'arlicle sur Paris 1924. el and translated all the articles into French a traduit tous les autres articles avec (with his daughter Laurence). Items I'aide de sa fille Laurence. Les illustrated come from various collections illustrations proviennent de plusieurs and are reproduced w`th thanks. collections. Nos remerciements pour la permission de les reproduire. Acknowledgements: • Official Reports l908& 1948. • .The Olympic Games" edited by Lord Killanin & John Rcidda (1976 edition) • The Complete Book of the Olympics" David Wallechinsky (2000 edition) • Journal Of Olympic History, Vol 5 -1, Spnng 1997 (article by Tony Bijkerk) • Olympic Review Xxvll -39, June-July 2001 (article by Tony Bijkerk) Torch Bearer `Olympic Rowing Special' September 2001 -lssN 0954-2183 3 #OLYMPIC ROWING STAMPS AND CANCELS Timbres et Obliterations Olympiques de I'Aviron Rowing first teatured in the Paris 1900 L'aviron a fail sa premiere apparition clans programme. Rowing events had been le programme des Jeux de Paris 1900. planned for the first modern Olympics in Les epreuves d'aviron 6laienl bien pr6vues Athens in 1896, but were cancelled lors des premiers Jeux Olympiques because of bad weather,. modemes d'Athenes en 1896. mais elles avaient do eire annul6es a cause du The first Olympic rowing stamp was not mauvais temps. issued however until 1928, as part of the Les premiers Jeux od ful 6mis un timbre Dutch set of eight for the Amsterdam sur l'aviron furent ceux de 1928. dens la Olympics. Designed by Fohhc> Mees. It s6rie hollandaise des Jeux d'Amst®rdam. had a 1 cent surcharge for the benefit of Dessin6 par Fohho Mees il esl afrecte the Organsing Committee, on top of the d'une sur{ax de 1 cent au b6n6fice du 1 '/2 cent face value: Comit6 d'Organisation en plus de la valeur faciale de 1 'y£2 cents. Les timbres de Los Angelos en 1932 revenent a un dessin classique. c'est clans la s6rie 6mise pour les Jeux de Berlin en 1936 que I'on relrouve l'aviron. Ce timbre a ete emis en feuille, en camel attennent a d'autres valeurs, et en bloc feuillet. The stamps for Los Angeles in 1932 11 y a eu une obliteration sp6ciale a Berlin- reverted to classical designs. but rowing GrlJn8u Regattabahn. sur le site de was one of the 8 designs in the set for I'epreuve. the Berlin Olympics in 1936. The stamp is found in sheets. and se-tenant from Pour les Jeux de 1948 a Londres, Ie booklets and miniature sheet: Royaume-Uni n'a pas 6mis de timbre sur I'aviron. Cependant, Monaco, pour sa There was a special cancel at Berlln- premiere emission olympique, a inclus Grunau F`egattabahn, the rowing I'aviron dens la s6rie. Venue. Pas d'aviron non plus en Finlande pour 1952, cependant en 1953 Ia France emit une s5rie en I'honneur de ses succes a Helsinki, incluant un timbre sur le Deux Barr6. Raymond Salles, Gaston Meroier. el le barreur Bernard Malivoire There was no Finnish stamp featuring There was no Olympic rowing stamp rowing in 1952. but in 1953 France issued from the UK for the 1948 Olympics in a set marking French successes at London, but one of the first `philatelic' Helsinki, including the coxed pairs (now issues for the Olympic Games, from dlscontinued). Raymond Salles rowed with Monaco, featured rowing. Gaston Mercier, Bernard Malivoire as cox: Australia did not feature sports on any L'Australie n'a reprfesente aucun sport sur of the stamps for the 1956 Melbourne les timbres 6mis pour les Jeux de games, but there were a feast of Melbourne 1956. Par contre il y eu un cancels depicting lndMdual sports. festival d'oblit6rations repr6sentant les Rowing took place on Lake Wendouree, sports individuals. L'aviron se d6roule au and there was a separate village for lac Wendouree, alors qu'il y a un Village rowers and canoeists at Ballarat (which s6parfe pour rameurs et canoeists a Ballarat opened over a month before the (qui ouvrait juste un mois avant les Jeux). Games): 5 For Rome 1960 we have again to Pour Rome 1960 il taut se contenter d'un content ourselves with a cancel, from cachet au Lac Albano Lake Albano: The Japanese issued an attractive stamp in their pre-Olympic series for the 1964 Les Japonais emettent clans les series Tokyo Olympics.