Volume 33 I Issue 4 I 2016 I ISSN 0954-2183 TORCH BEARER Official publication of the Society of Olympic Collectors 1859 1924 1866 1928 1870 1932 1875 1936 1896 1948 1900 1952 1904 1956 1906 1960 1908 1964 1912 1968 1920 1972 1924 1976 1928 1980 1932 1984 1936 1988 1948 1992 1952 1994 1956 1998 1960 2002 1964 2006 1968 2010 1972 2014 1976 2018 1980 2022 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 SOC Society of Olympic Collectors Society of Olympic Collectors Executive Committee Chairman Bob Wilcock email: [email protected] 24 Hamilton Crescent, Brentwood, Essex CM14 5ES, United Kingdom Vice-Chairman Vacant Secretary Paula Burger email: [email protected] 19 Hanbury Path, Sheerwater, Woking, Surrey GU21 5RB, United Kingdom Editor & Mike Pagomenos email: [email protected] Website Admin 8 Tayside Drive, Edgware, Middlesex HA8 8RD, United Kingdom Treasurer & David Frome email: [email protected] Distribution 129 Leicester Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN5 5EA, United Kingdom Manager Auction Manager Chris Cohen email: [email protected] 3 Cowham Close, Alfreton, Derbyshire DE55 7HG, United Kingdom International Packet Secretary Vacant Public Relations Officer Vacant Committee Jonathan Rosenthal! email: [email protected] Member 7 Sandmoor Lane, Leeds LS17 7EA, United Kingdom Torch Bearer Back Issues: The SOC maintains a reference archive with two copies of each issue of Torch Bearer. 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All back issues of the magazine for the current year will be sent to members joining during the year. Junior members are those aged under 18 years in the year of joining, subscription rates are half of the adult rate until their 18th birthday. All applications for membership should be made to the Secretary. Subscription rates for 2018 when making payment in £ sterling, € or $US currency notes or £ sterling cheques are as follows: United Kingdom: £15.00 / Europe: €30.00 / Outside Europe: €40.00 or $US45.00 Subscription rates for 2018 when making payment through Paypal are as follows: United Kingdom: £16.00 / Europe: £22.00 / Outside Europe: £27.00 Payments are accepted through Paypal in £ sterling only and include the additional costs involved with accepting payment through Paypal. Editorial In this issue we go back to the day the Wenlock Olympian Society (WOS) was founded in 1860. Not 1850 as is often claimed by the WOS on its website, its Twitter account and its annual programmes. We are reminded of how effective the amateur revisionist historians at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are when we are informed that a speed skater who won a medal during International Winter Sports Week in Chamonix in 1924 was the first person to win a Winter Olympic Games gold medal. The event was recognised retroactively as the first Winter Olympic Games at the IOC Congress in Prague in 1925. The participants at Chamonix did not compete for Olympic medals and the spectators did not buy tickets to a Winter Olympic Games. Nor did the posters promote a Winter Olympic Games since they promoted an International Winter Sports Week held in the same year as the Paris 1924 Olympic Games Compare that to Athens 1906 where the participants competed for Olympic medals and the spectators bought tickets to the Olympic Games. The posters promoted the 2nd International Olympic Games at Athens in 1906 that was fully recognised as such by the IOC and in its official report. Pierre de Coubertin later decided that it was no longer an Olympic Games because Paris 1900 and St Louis 1904, which were not held under the auspices or the patronage of the IOC, were recognised retroactively as the 2nd and 3rd Olympic Games. All the Olympic medals won at Athens 1906 are no longer Olympic medals and apparently are not considered worthy of being displayed at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. The injustice and absurdity are palpable yet ignored. Nor can we forget that 'Winter Olympic Games' tickets were sold during the London 1908 Olympics and that Olympic medals were awarded to events on that programme. My apologies that I keep mentioning all of the above. Collecting helps me enjoy and appreciate history much more than just reading about it. In the same way that collectors need to be aware of forgeries and reproductions it is important that we are also aware of the faux history that is represented or condemned by the items that we collect. Repeating a lie does not make it any less of a lie and I sincerely hope that the organisations that we respect learn to do less of it. The IOC continually preaches about the importance of not taking performance-enhancing drugs because it is cheating. Falsifying history is also cheating. Knowingly repeating falsified history for more than a century and passing it off as historical fact while condemning others of cheating is contemptible. Also in this issue: the fourth part of British Olympic postal history 1956-2008 and an article about Brazilian philately during Rio 2016. More philatelic new issues are listed in this Torch Bearer. SOC AUCTION CATALOGUE: There were not enough lots to issue an auction catalogue with this issue of Torch Bearer. Do not forget to send lots for sale to the Auctioneer. 86 Frederick Wayne - son of the Reverend William Henry Wayne by Mike Pagomenos Have discovered some interesting items sent to Frederick Wayne in New Zealand by his family. Frederick was the second son of the Reverend William Henry Wayne who was vicar of the parish at The Holy Trinity church in Much Wenlock between 1842 and 1872. The Reverend opposed Dr William Penny Brookes on issues concerning the Olympian Class to inspire the foundation of the Wenlock Olympian Society on Saturday 17 November 1860. [Ref. 1] Registered cover posted from Much Wenlock to Waikouaiti, Otago, New Zealand. Also shown, the Dunedin, Otago arrival cancel on back of envelope. This is the first registered cover posted from Much Wenlock, during Queen Victoria's reign, that I have found. There are four stamps totalling 1s4d (6d + 4d + 4d +2d) including a 6d lilac with white corner letters and without plate numbers and two different shades of the 4d red with white corner letters and without plate numbers. The 2d blue is plate 9. This cover has a number of circular date stamps including: Much Wenlock, Dec 23,1863; Wellington (the Wellington in Shropshire, not the one in New Zealand), Dec 23, 1863; Dunedin, Feb 19, 1864; and Waikouaiti, Feb 22, 1864. There are two registered cancels and two additional partial strikes of the same cancels. The registered cancel with the crown was struck in London. Each of the four stamps is cancelled with a Wellington 859 numeral cancel. There are a total of 12 separate postal strikes comprising 7 different postmarks. 87 A non-registered cover to the same destination was posted from Much Wenlock six months earlier. This cover has three stamps totalling 6d (4d + 1d + 1d) including a 4d red with white corner letters and without plate numbers and two ld red stars tied with two Wellington circular date stamps and two Wellington 859 numeral cancels. The circular date stamps include: Much Wenlock, June 18, 1862; Wellington, Salop, June 18, 1862; London, June 19, 1862; Dunedin arrival cancel, Aug 21, 1862; and Waikouaiti, Otago, NZ, Aug 25, 1862. Cover posted from Much Wenlock to Waikouaiti, Otago, New Zealand. Also shown, Much Wenlock cds and London arrival cancel on back of envelope. Frederick Wayne was born, in 1834, in Derbyshire. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and studied at the School of Mines in London. He travelled to Sydney, Australia in 1859 and on to Port Lyttelton, New Zealand on 1 January 1860. He was elected as a Member of Parliament and represented Hampden in Otago between 1863 and 1866. He married in 1864 to a daughter of the Reverend George Barber and they had four sons and a daughter. 88 A mourning cover posted to Frederick Wayne in the same year and month that his father died. This cover has three stamps totalling 9d (6d + 2d + 1d) including a 6d brown, 2d blue and 1d red tied with pair of Wellington, Salop duplex cancels dated October 3, 1872. The readable arrival cancels on the back include Milton, December 1, 1872; Dunedin, December 3, 1872 and the unreadable mark is most likely a Much Wenlock, October 3, 1872 cds. There are 3 smudges on the front that might be failed attempts at London or Tokomairiro strikes. Mourning cover. Also shown, Milton and Dunedin arrival cancels on back of envelope. "In the south aisle of The Holy Trinity church in Much Wenlock are three stained windows, erected in 1877, by the children of the Rev.