Friday, February 6, 2015

Winter Olympic postage stamps (USSR)

  The 1960 Winter Olympics was a winter multi-sport event held between February 18–28, 1960 in Squaw Valley, California, United States. Postage stamps were printed on special custom-made paper in USSR in 1960.
  • Original Name: "Зимняя олимпиада в Скво-Вэлли"
  • Artist: R. Zhitkov
  • Country: USSR
  • Year: 1960
  • Subject: Sport
  • Estimated cost: 40, 25 kop. (at the rate of exchange 1960)
  • Number of catalogue: 2397, 2398 (Postage stamps of Russia and USSR, Vol.4 Edited by V. Soloviev, 2011, ISBN 978-5-86656-238-1)
  • Impression: 2.5m