All of a sudden, I came out with a useless "collector" question... what are the oldest rugby stamps?
And it's pretty easy to answer because my fellow collector Derry W. has already gathered all possible information available about stamps on his website "rugby on stamps". And to be honest, all pictures - except the stamp above - belong to Derry... Thanks a lot (and I hope you won't mind my borrowing...)
The World oldest rugby stamp, a pretty unexpected "winner"..., was issued in Romania in 1944 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Romanian Rugby Union (FRR - formerly CFR as detailed here - in Romanian, so ask google for translation...)
Here's the "Top 10":
1. Romania, 1944 (above)
2. Fiji, 1951
3. Japan, 1953
4. France, 1956
5. Romania (again), 1959
6. Czechoslovakia, 1961
7. Samoa, 1962
8. Korea, 1963
9. South Africa, 1964
10. South Africa, 1964
Interstingly, no stamps before ww2 and no stamps from Home Unions, nor New Zealand nor Australia...
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