Latvijas Pasts releases a stamp dedicated to Latvian Sport Museum
23.02.2022
On the 25th of February 2022, Latvijas Pasts releases the second stamp in the series Latvian Museums, and this year’s issue is dedicated to Latvian Sport Museum. In the new stamp, the artist Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja has depicted various valuable exhibits from the museum’s collections. The stamp will first be available for purchase at the post offices of the largest cities, as well as in the e-shop of Latvijas Pasts https://veikals.pasts.lv/. Those interested in the first day cancellation options are invited to contact us by writing to the e-mail address: filatelija@pasts.lv.
The print run of the stamp
Latvian Sport Museum is 50,000 copies and its face value is €1.44, which corresponds to the postage of items in the weight class up to 20 grams to the countries in
Groups 2 and 4. The release of the stamp is accompanied by the issue of a special cover with a print run of 800 copies. The stamp and the cover have been designed by the artist A.Ozola-Jaunarāja.
The artist has created the composition of the new stamp, incorporating several articles from the collection of Latvian Sport Museum: a bronze figure of Kārlis Mikuls (1886–1911), one of the most outstanding Latvian athletes; the skates of Alberts Rumba, a speed skater who competed in the I Olympic Winter Games (Chamonix, 1924); the honorary prize of the Association of Latvian Sports Organisations – a silver laurel wreath, which was awarded in 1932 to Jānis Daliņš, the winner of the X Olympic Games silver medal in the 50-kilometre race walk; as well as the gold medal won by Jānis Ķipurs in the bobsleigh doubles competition in the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary (1988).
The cover depicts the Amber Sea Cup (1951–1957), which was a gift from the sailors of the UK flagged Latvian ships Elizabete, Rāmava, Kuldīga, Sports, Ogre and Venta to the best Latvian basketball teams in England; the basketball donated to the museum by the outstanding basketball player Uļjana Semjonova in 1993; as well as three photographs featuring Latvian tobogganers at the beginning of the 20th century, the first outstanding Latvian swimmer Kārlis Bensons (1891–1938) and Latvian track cyclists at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.
Latvian Sport Museum is located at 9 Alksnāja Street, Riga. The museum offers the opportunity to get insight into the cultural heritage of sports as well as to gain new knowledge about Latvian sports from the beginnings of organised sports to the diversity of modern sports. The mission of the museum is to educate the society, especially the youth, to strengthen national self-awareness and identity, to inspire the individual and to spark a desire to engage in sports activities, promoting the formation of a healthy, creative, free and conscientious society.
The stamp and the cover
Latvian Sport Museum can be seen
here.
Latvijas Pasts launched the series
Latvian Museums in 2021 in order to introduce the wide range of museums in Latvia to the public, while strengthening the overall role of museums. The stamp issued last year was dedicated to the Riga Porcelain Museum, and it can be viewed
here.
The first day stamp cancellation is not being held at post offices during the spread of
COVID-19, so stamp collectors and those interested in philately are invited to contact the Stamp and Philately Department of
Latvijas Pasts regarding stamp cancellation options by writing to the e-mail address:
filatelija@pasts.lv.
The new stamp and the cover will first be available for purchase at Riga post office No. 10 at 41/43 Elizabetes Street and at the post centre
Sakta at 32 Brīvības bulvāris, Riga, as well as in the e-shop of
Latvijas Pasts https://veikals.pasts.lv/.
The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 4th of March.
About SJSC Latvijas Pasts
Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with around 3,000 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by Kantar TNS, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies Kantar TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Vineta Kļaviņa | Senior Public Relations Project Manager
