1983 Volleyball/Pole Vault Pair

# C112v - 1983 Volleyball/Pole Vault Pair

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U.S. #C112v
1983 35¢ Women’s Volleyball and Men’s Pole Vaulting
Summer Olympics Issue
 
Issue Date: November 4, 1983
First City: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforation: 11
Color: Multicolored
 
This First Day Cover commemorates the 23rd Olympic Games which were held in Los Angeles during the summer of 1984.  These stamps feature Olympic sports women’s volleyball and men’s pole vaulting.
 
Few sports have been so enthusiastically greeted at the Olympics as was women’s volleyball when it made its debut at the 1964 Tokyo Games. The sport was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1895.
 
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which competitors use a flexible pole to clear a bar that is raised to increasing heights. In 1984, Americans earned the silver and bronze medals with vaults that exceeded 18 feet.
 

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U.S. #C112v
1983 35¢ Women’s Volleyball and Men’s Pole Vaulting
Summer Olympics Issue
 
Issue Date: November 4, 1983
First City: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforation: 11
Color: Multicolored
 
This First Day Cover commemorates the 23rd Olympic Games which were held in Los Angeles during the summer of 1984.  These stamps feature Olympic sports women’s volleyball and men’s pole vaulting.
 
Few sports have been so enthusiastically greeted at the Olympics as was women’s volleyball when it made its debut at the 1964 Tokyo Games. The sport was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1895.
 
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which competitors use a flexible pole to clear a bar that is raised to increasing heights. In 1984, Americans earned the silver and bronze medals with vaults that exceeded 18 feet.