Overview

This new book by Bob Wilcock, President of the Society of Olympic Collectors, sets out in fascinating detail the stamps and postal history of the 1948 Olympic games. 

With hundred of colour illustrations, it includes stamps, first day covers, postmarks, postal stationery, cigarette cards and other ephemera, as well as an essay by Douglas Muir, curator of Philately at the British Postal Museum & Archive, setting out the full story of the British stamp issue.