FREE: US UNUSED HINGED SCOTT'S #718 Runner

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US UNUSED HINGED SCOTT'S #718
Runner
Date Issued: 1932-06-15
Postage Value: 3 cents

Commemorative issue
1932 Olympic Summer Games
Runner
Nationalism has left its mark on the Olympic Games, beginning with the 1936 Games in Berlin.

Thus, the 1932 games were the last before a rush of political intrigue. The Nazis built a powerful team through nationalized training and dominated the games. The next surge of such nationalism was 1956 when Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon boycotted the Melbourne Games to protest Anglo-French seizure of the Suez Canal. Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland also boycotted to protest the USSR's invasion of Hungary.

American black athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos used the victory stand to publicize U.S. racial policies at the 1968 Games at Mexico City. Eleven Israeli athletes were killed by nonparticipating Palestinian terrorists in 1972 at Munich. Thirty-three African nations boycotted the 1976 Games at Montreal to protest South Africa's apartheid policies. The U.S. government led a boycott of the 1980 Summer Games at Moscow to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The private U.S. Olympic Committee was pressured by the Carter administration to boycott...note : all stamps shipped asap and/or with in 7 day close of auction.

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mint stamp gum

: unused - a stamp that is not cancelled (used) , yet has had all the original gum removed. on early u.s. issues this is the condition that the majority of mint stamps exist in , as early collectors often soaked the gum off their stamps to avoid the possibility of gum drying and splitting

original gum (og) - a stamp that still retains the adhesive applied when the stamp was made, yet has been hinged or has had some of gum removed.

never hinged (nh) - a stamp that is in " post office " condition with full gum that has never been hinged .