Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Indonesia: XIX National Sports Week

I have received cover from Indonesia with big and unusual shaped mini sheet XIX National Sports Week. Mini sheet have one stamp, and next to a stamp is replica of golden medal printed with golden foil and embossed. Mini sheet is issued on 09.09.2016. In bottom right corner you can see another stamp in usual shape ans size: Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), from set Flora and Fauna, issued on 05.11.2014.

Here is a different angle. Medal almost looks like real object.

The National Sports Week is a multi-sport event held every four years in Indonesia. The participants of this event are the athletes from all provinces of Indonesia.

Indonesia was unable to participate in the 1948 Olympic Games because Indonesian independence had not been recognized, and Indonesia was not a member of the International Olympic Committee. At an emergency conference in Solo on 1 May 1948 to discuss Indonesia's failure to compete in the Olympics, it was decided to organize the first National Games, which ran from 8–12 September 1948.



Thank you Martha!


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