The Table Tennis 53 - ITTF

Meet the Members
Hans-Peter Trautmann
O
ur featured collector is Hans-Peter Trautmann of Germany, world famous
for his outstanding philatelic collections. Hans-Peter started philatelic collecting
in 1962 at the age of seven, with stamps from Germany. In 1975 he began to
collect stamps and postmarks with chess and table tennis motif. He played
table tennis from 1969 - 1977 and won some district championships. Hans-
Peter owns a complete collection of all table tennis-stamps published until
2002. Only a few pieces are missing from his collection of table tennis special
postmarks and red meters.
He is particularly interested in postally sent postmarks, postcards written
from famous table tennis players with their autographs (of which he has
a fine collection) and red meters.
The album pages of his collections were written and designed by his late
father, who was a graphic illustrator by profession (example: see tt-collector
Nr. 41 page 11).
Following are some of Hans-Peter’s favorites, all very difficult to find:
Below: The postmarks from European youth tournament at Bad Blankenburg
1961, and postmark in red, for the 1961 Chinese championships,
Tai Yuen, Peoples Republic of China
Beside table
tennis items Hans-Peter
owns a large collection of
postal history (postmarks since
1805 and stamps since 1852) from his
hometown Reichelsheim. He is a member
of the philatelic societies Thurn und Taxis,
Poststempelgilde (postmark union) and
IMOS.
Hans-Peter seeks red meter franking
postmark for Germany 1960 28th
National TT Ch. Essen and
special postmarks from
Novi Sad 1961.
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