Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Hong Kong 2016 Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hong Kong released on 5 August 2016 a set of 4 stamps to commemorate the XXXI Olympiad that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The fourth stamp features a golfer and a rugby player, the rugby player was printed with a holographic surface. The stamps also appeared on a miniature sheet.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games

Hong Kong Post issued this on 5 December to commemorate the Asian Games held in this then British, now Chinese, enclave, from 5 to 13 December. The rugby player executing a drop kick is found in the first $1.40 stamp, located at the top left side of the block of 6 in this miniature sheet. The scanned image of the miniature sheet shows only dark silhouettes of sportsmen, but they are actually metallic surfaces, which I couldn't reproduce with my scanner; the 2 $1.40 stamps have gold silhouettes, the 2 $2.40 stamps are silver and the 2 $3.00 stamps bronze.

Besides this miniature sheet, the Hong Kong Post also released the set of 6 stamps, and 6 pre-paid postcards (PPC), each one with the same design as each of the individual stamp.