Saturday 17 September 2022

World Cup series for collectors.

 I have had a few blogs related to the world cup, which I will list below before adding today's blog:

Today I would like to review the Poster series of Qatar stamps and add a few more items that true collectors might appreciate.

While the first 12 stamps in the 2002 World Cup issue (see below) represent the official poster of the tournament as seen below, the remainder of the stamps in this series, and that includes all following issues (such as the 2006 Germany and the remaining 3 posters issued in December 2021).

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The below slide shows the final 9 official World Cup posters and their equivalent representation in Qatar issued stamps. as can be seen, the first of these was the 1986 Mexico World Cup poster which was represented by a mixture of the actual poster and the official logo of the tournament. From then onwards, Qatar opted to just use the official logo and make it into a poster, rather than use the official poster (I show both versions below).

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The official Qatar World Cup poster with corrected date is shown below.

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Although I only collect stamps, I presume any collector would like to see all previous World Cup Logos and Mascots which I show below.


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Surprisingly, most of the official ball for all world cups are available to purchase online for the serious aficionado. Below I list all the balls used. In recent years it has become fashionable for the final ball to have a slight different design - I do not include that design.


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