Table Tennis Collector 38 - ITTF

In this issue…
THE TABLE TENNIS
Update to Membership List (p2)
The Meaning of Success (p2)
World Championships in Philately
: Part 6 1965 (p3) by Hans-
Peter Trautmann and Winfried
Engelbrech
The Journal of the Table Tennis Collectors’ Society
Surprise for Graham in Hungary
(p5)
Latest from Ebay (p6)
Showcase in Shanghai (p8) by
Chuck Hoey
38
Summer
2005
The all-time great Richard Bergmann, one of whose signature bats found its
way into the ITTF Museum—see page 6. Photo kindly sent by Keith Bowler.
The ETTA Magazine (p10) including
contribution by Gerald
Gurney
Philatelic Pages (p13) by Jan
Nusteleijn and Jos Zinkstok
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THE HE TABLE TABLE
TENNIS ENNIS
COLLECTOR
OLLECTOR
38
Summer 2005
Editor:
Graham Trimming
17 Gwendale, Pinkneys Green
Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 6SH
England
Tel: +44 (0)1628 636978
email: graham.trimming@virgin.net
Update to Membership
List 2005
Michael Babiun
PO Box 3401, Cary, NC 27519, USA
Tel: +1 (919) 462 3931
Email: mike.babuin@townofcary.org
Interests: TT books (vintage, early any language or
country
Sale/Exchange: Old TT boxed sets.
Acquire: Early books (1902), all editions/versions/
printlines; autographed items.
Fabrice Chantriaux
10 rue des Chevrefeuilles, 5-45130 Saint-Ay, France
Tel: +33 (0) 238 888211
Fax: +33 (0) 238 469429
Email: f.chantriaux@wanadoo.fr
Interests: Old paper items: stamps, postcards, magazines,
books, newspapers, posters.
Sale/Exchange: Stamps, postcards, French stamps.
Acquire: Posters (WC and EC), stamps, old magazines.
Rex Haggett
27 Meadow Close, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,
CV37 9PJ, England.
Tel: +44 (0) 1789 269352
Fax: +44 (0) 1789 269352
Email: rex@stratford94.fsnet.co.uk
Website: ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/
RexHaggett
Interests: Philately.
Jose Ransome
Conifers, Church Lane, Ormesby, Middlesborough, Cleveland,
TS7 9AU, England.
Tel: +44 (0) 1642 322223
Email: ajransome@aol.com
Sale/Exchange: some books.
The Meaning of Success
Book Review—The Meaning of Success (Jon Kaufman)
Subtitled: The Rise and Rise (and imminent demise?) of London Progress Table Tennis Club
Who has heard of London Progress
Table Tennis Club? A very familiar
name indeed to English members of
the Society—the remainder of you
will, probably, be asking “who?”.
This is a book about England’s most
successful table tennis club of recent
years. They have been British
League champions for the last seven
years. That success has developed
an arrogance and brashness that has
created enemies in the corridors of
power of English table tennis. Or so
the author of the book, Jon Kaufman,
claims. Kaufman, the unabashed
manager of the club, certainly likes it
that way. He has a vision of the future
of English table tennis built
around large clubs much along the
lines of the European model. He
craves to be likened to Caen TTC in
France but knows he is a long way
short. He attacks the ETTA for their
narrow-mindedness and traditional
style rather than embracing the developmental
style that he thinks could
bring English table tennis up to European
standards. By and large, I
agree will his ideals and vision.
This is a real table tennis book. Its
pages, more than 200 of them, are all
about table tennis and, in particular,
the rise to stardom of Kaufman’s beloved
Progress. All he wants to do is
to get people playing “ping” and then
to win. As he claims throughout
“winning is everything, coming second
is not an option”. And yet, at
times, it seems to be about everything
other than table tennis. It is a
real life drama, played out against the
backdrop of the local ping pong club.
This is far from the normal book on
table tennis; there are no coaching
techniques, there is no appendix of
results, there is hardly a mention of a
single match result. If you like your
books to have lots of pretty pictures,
forget it! There is not a graphic or
photograph to be had.
No, this is a book about people. It is
crammed full with anecdotes about
people. Not all of them are complimentary.
Some of the names have
even had to be changed. It is a book
about an idealogy and, that being so,
includes some political statement.
More than anything it is celebration of
a cultural mix. In a sport dominated in
England by the white middle classes,
London Progress is a club that prides
itself on its varied ethnic mix, taking
kids from the back street estates of
inner London and making something
of themselves. The large majority of
the Progress players are from ethnic
minorities, many are recent immigrants,
some of them having fled war
torn areas of Europe and Africa.
The book is a gripping story—it has
all the parts necessary for a great
film. It is about success. It is about
constant battles against authority and
financial poverty. It is about getting
into scrapes and it is about having
fun, but only after the match has
been won. More than anything it is
about people. Has it got everything—
did I mention there is even a murder?
Kaufman knows what he is talking
about. For some years he worked for
the “enemy”, the ETTA, as London
Region Development Officer. I have
spoken to him on many occasions
and he always makes good sense.
He is passionate about table tennis.
He is even more passionate about
London Progress, “not so much a
club, more of a concept”. It shows in
his writing, and he writes very well.
Entertainingly and challengingly.
I acquired my copy of the book from
Kaufman himself when he visited my
club, along with a bus full of kids from
his Progress club, for a summer tournament.
I wasn’t expecting much. I
was wrong. It is the best read that I
have had in ages and ranks in my
opinion as one of the most readable
table tennis books ever—up there
alongside The Money Player.
The subject matter is perhaps a little
too English to appeal to everyone,
the characters portrayed will not
mean much to non-English readers.
However, the book comes with my
hearty recommendation and can be
obtained for the sum of GBP 10 from
the author himself:
Jon Kaufman
24 Locket Road, Willesden
Middlesex, HA3 7LZ, England.
Tel: +44 (0) 7050 042671
jonk@ufman.fsnet.co.uk
Next issue - publication November 2005 - copy date 1 October 2005
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World Championships in Philately
Part 6
By Hans-Peter Trautmann and Winfried Engelbrecht
Part 6 of Hans-Peter Trautmann’s and Winfried Engelbrecht’s World Table Tennis Championships in philately.
Part 1 in the issue 33 began the story in 1950, the year in which special postmarks were used for the first time.
1965 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Event Winner(s) Country City
Men’s Singles: Chuang Tse-tung China
Women’s Singles: Naoko Fukazu Japan
Men’s Team: Chang Shih-lin, Chuang Tse-tung, Chou Lan-sun,
Hsu Yin-sheng, Li Fu-jung
Women’s Team: Cheng Min-chih, Liang Li-chen, Li Ho-nan, Lin
Hui-ching
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China
China
Stamps: Yugoslavia
China
Cancellations: Yugoslavia
China
Ljubljana
Beijing, Shanghai
Stamps issued in Yugoslavia 15.4.65—in blocks of four (and singularly—
overleaf) perforated and single imperforated (below).
And in China 25.4.65.

Covers postmarked from Ljubljana 15.4.65
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First day covers from the People’s Republic of China 25.4.65 from Peking (above) and Shanghai (below)
owards the end of June your Editor
T and his partner Nita took a weekend
break in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
Knowing that Hungary provided many of
the early World champions, right from its
beginnings in 1926, and that the game
was maintained in Hungary during the
period 1905 to 1920 when most of the rest
of the World forgot about it, Graham
wondered whether the antique shops of
Surprise for Graham in Hungary
the city would provide anything to
augment his collection. Zilch! Nothing!
However, Hungary did present one
antique(!) from the world of table tennis.
Having returned at 7pm from an all-day
tour Graham and Nita decided to have a
pre-dinner drink at a boat-pub, perched on
the Danube, that they had been eyeing up
all weekend. Directed to a table by a
waiter, imagine their surprise when from
the very next table came the salutation
“Hello Graham!” It was none other than
former England international Nigel
Eckersley and his wife Carole, themselves
taking a short break in Budapest after
completing in the European Veterans’
Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.
It’s a small world!
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Latest from Ebay
One of the best sources of items to augment collections of any sort is the
internet auction giant Ebay. He is a selection of some of the better items
that have been traded on Ebay since the last issue of this journal.
Two more “signature” bats have found their way also to the ITTF
Museum and I never cease to be staggered at the high prices
these items command. The Richard Bergmann bat (below left) was
made by Dobbykraft. It sold for GBP 135.
This was not so much as the GBP 175 paid for the Miklos Szabados
bat made by Slazengers, probably in the 1930s. The bat has
been well used and the blue rubber displays quite a lot of wear.
However, even these prices are dwarfed by the USD 405 paid by a
collector for the Stiga Flisan (named after Tage Flisberg) bat made
in Sweden in the 1950s. A similar bat was featured in Collector no.
32 having been acquired by the ITTF Museum for almost the same
price. However, you might also remember that USD 788 was paid
for the one featured in the last issue. How many of you are now
scurrying around in your attics hoping to find that item that may be
worth oh! so much?
www.ebay.com
Pictured left is one of the more unusual
items to have appeared on Ebay. I apologise
that the photo is not so good. The
seller failed to get it uploaded onto Ebay so
this is a picture that was emailed to me.
It is a bat in a presentation case that has a
leather exterior, a plush maroon velvet
base and a scarlet lining to the lid. There is
a gilt manufacturer’s stamp “D. George
Collins Manufacturing Silversmith, 118
Newgate Street, London. On the bat is a
hallmarked silver shield inscribed “Ping
Pong in Den of Lions, Brighton, 8 March
1902 Won by A.C. Barnett”. The shield is
surmounted by a lion.
The occasion was a game of table tennis
played in a cage of eleven lions at the Hippodrome,
Brighton, before an audience of
2,000 spectators.
Table Tennis and Pastimes Pioneer, in its
edition of 15 March 1902 described it thus:
“BRIGHTON.—A sensational match took
place on Saturday night at the Brighton
Hippodrome when two local gentlemen,
named E.W. Barnett and H.W. Izod, played
a game for £50 a side in a cage in which
there were eleven lions. The former finally
won the game, the lions taking but little interest
in it. The balls used were subsequently
distributed among the audience as
momentoes of the exhibition.”
This story is also recounted in Gerald Gurney’s
The Early Years and the Ebay item
includes a newspaper cutting giving full details
of the event. This item of great historical
interest found its way to the ITTF Museum
for GBP 160.
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Details of inscription of
Ealing trophy (right).
The seller described the above item, acquired by the ITTF Museum
for USD 49, as a wooden sewing box in the shape of a ping pong
table. The halves of the table open to reveal storage. There is a
picture in one corner of a lady sewing and the legend “Rdo. de
Mallorca”, meaning souvenir from Mallorca. A very similar (if not
practically identical apart from the sewing lady) appears on the Museum
website described as a handmade humidor in fine polished
walnut.
The only other item this issue not acquired by the Museum. This
1902 McLoughlin Bros boxed set with its folding wooden net base
and collection of five battledores (presumably four at most being
originals) raised USD 235 for its previous owner in the USA. The
wooden box is leather covered and the words “Table Tennis” appear
is gold leaf. Included with the rules is a sheet for care and
feeding of vellum!
In the last issue I suggested that trophies from the
1902 era were rare. I featured a rather plain one
then. Here is a much more beautiful example with
some provenance also. The inscription reads
“Table tennis championship of Ealing Ladies Singles
Challenge Bowl presented by H.C. Green Esq
Mayor of Ealing 1901-2. Won by Miss M.M. Read
March 5th 1902. Like the Brighton match in the lions’
den, the results of this event were also recorded
in the final edition of TT&PP. The Museum
acquired this beautiful object for GBP 175.
Easily recognizable as being Bussey’s by its familiar
twisted medtal net posts, this c. 1902 set made
its way to the Museum for GBP 83. The table cloth,
beautiful though it is, was not included in the sale!
This Victorian pencil case was
twinned with another that had nothing
to do with our precious game. The
picture is poor because the transfer
design on the lid had suffered considerable
damage. The pair became the
property of the Museum upon the
exchange of GBP 35.
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T
Showcase in Shanghai
The most exciting development for all table tennis collectors and lovers of history
and memorabilia recently has been the creation of the ITTF Museum in
Lausanne, Switzerland. Although the Museum itself is not yet open to the public,
many of the best exhibits made their debut in the public arena at the recent
World Championships in Shanghai, China. Chuck Hoey, the man whose many
hours of hard toil brought this to fruition, tells us the story in his own words.
he recent World Championships in Shanghai featured
the first stop on the LIEBHERR ITTF Museum
Tour, a celebration of Table Tennis heritage. Though an
enormous amount of work for only a one-week exhibit,
the visitors were clearly impressed by the dazzling array
of historical Table Tennis items in a 700 square meter
display.
Partial view of the Technical exhibit area in the Shanghai exhibit
Organization
The exhibit was presented in 3 sections: Technical, focusing
on the evolution of Table Tennis and its equipment;
Cultural, showing the impact of Table Tennis on world
cultures; and ITTF/Sport, an illustrated timeline history of
the ITTF, and the Hall of Fame. The exhibit also included
a small theatre where films of vintage matches could be
viewed, and the computer Table Tennis game from the
ITTF homepage.
The display cases, specially constructed in Shanghai for
this exhibit, were augmented by large background structures
with attached textiles and interior lighting. Designs
from the ITTF Museum collection were printed on the textiles.
Sample of the printed textile structures
Exhibits
By Chuck Hoey,
Curator ITTF Museum
Because Table Tennis is the national sport of China, I felt
an emphasis on the technical aspects of the sport was
appropriate. Probably the most important exhibit was the
very first game of Table Tennis, made in England in 1890.
This presented some security issues but the visitors respected
the protective barrier.
The first game of Table Tennis, D.Foster, England 1890
The many bat exhibits were also popular, with a demonstration
of an evolution from the earliest rackets to modern
times.
Visitors crowded around one of the bats exhibits
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A Walk Through Time
A favourite exhibit among the spectators was the 16- metre
illustrated ITTF Timeline History, which showed photos
of all the World and Olympic singles champions,
named the Swaythling and Corbillon Cup winners, as well
as ITTF Presidents, significant rules changes and other
major milestones in the history of Table Tennis. Many
people were observed pointing at the Timeline, a measure
I use to assess an exhibit's success. The 12-metre
ITTF Hall of Fame exhibit was also a crowd favourite.
Part of the 16-metre illustrated ITTF Timeline History
Cultural Exhibits
The Ping Pong Diplomacy tribute was also much enjoyed
by the visitors, though some were not accustomed to seeing
the revered Chairman Mao depicted in caricature
style. Other cultural exhibits included an art gallery, a Disney
& Comicbook exhibit for the children and young at
heart, and a special exhibit on women in Table Tennis.
Honouring the Ping Pong Diplomacy era, 1971-72
Victor Barna and the Swaythling Club
Several years ago Susie Barna gave me 15 medals that
Victor won in various competitions in England. I promised
her then that someday I would make a tribute to Victor,
and now this has become a reality, entitled "Victor Barna—His
Legend Lives On". His amazing record of 40
World Championship medals, 22 of which were gold, and
5 men's singles titles, will never be equaled.
Diane Rowe, President of the Swathling Club International
(SCI), cooperated with this exhibit by loaning the
Victor Barna Cup and Richard Bergmann award and
other SCI materials.
Computer Game
The ITTF computer game was a great attraction, with the
8 computers nearly in constant use by fans young and
old.
Young visitors enjoyed the ITTF Table Tennis computer game
Donations
Thanks to our good friend Han Sang Kook, three great
Korean champions donated their bats to the ITTF Museum,
securing their place in the ITTF Hall of Champions:
Ryu Seung Min, winner of the Men's Singles Gold in Athens;
Hyun Jung Hwa, World and Olympic Champion, and
Yoo Nam Kyu, Gold Medalist at the 1988 Olympics.
These bats were exhibited in Shanghai and drew much
attention. I ask all of our Champions to donate their bats
so they can be honoured in the Hall of Champions at the
ITTF Museum in Lausanne.
Bats donated by Korean World & Olympic Champions
So many people to thank, especially our sponsor
LIEBHERR for their support, the Shanghai Organizing
Committee, our wonderful volunteers, and all the support
staff, whose enthusiasm, hard work and dedication
helped to make the exhibit possible.
Virtual Tour
The ITTF Museum website now offers a virtual tour of the
Shanghai exhibit: www.ittf.com/museum
Table Tennis is the first sport to create a museum in the
Lausanne Olympic community. I encourage all to do your
part in making the ITTF Museum a world-class success.
Contact the curator by e-mail at:
museum@ittf.com or by Fax at +41-21-340-7096
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The ETTA Magazine
The page opposite features a number of extracts from the official magazine of the English Table Tennis Association
from the late 1930s imaginatively entitled ….. Table Tennis. They have been kindly submitted for publication
by Gerald Gurney. As a postscript to the article he wrote to accompany these (below right) Gerald enquired
whether anyone knew when the magazine was first published. That got me scrambling up in my cabinet
where I keep all my table tennis memorabilia and into the many files of magazines (I was fortunate to acquire
the entire collection of Terry Vance at 2001 auction and I am now missing only a few copies and all those are
pre-1950). This then prompted the piece I have written (below) about the various incarnations of the ETTA
magazine through the years—GT.
f course, we are all aware of the
O nine issues of Table Tennis and
Pastimes Pioneer, published between
January and March 1902, and
which is now reproduced in full on the
ITTF Museum website.
What is less certain is when the next
magazine was published. The earliest
magazine in my collection is Table
Tennis Illustrated vol. II, no. 5
from October 1931. It claims to be
published with the authority of the
ETTA, the TTAW (Wales) and the
IFSTTA (Ireland). It claims also to be
the only official magazine devoted to
table tennis and, as if to prove it, contains
articles from such luminaries as
the Hon. Ivor Montagu, C. Corti
Woodcock and H.M. Bunbury
(Chairman, ETTA). It was registered
at Stationer’s Hall and had a distinct
north-west bias with many of the advertisements
being from the Manchester
area. I think we can safely
assume that this magazine must
have commenced in 1930.
Next in my collection is the March 5,
1932 edition of The Table Tennis
World. My only example is vol. 1, no.
9 and as it is a fortnightly publication
is should be safe to assume that this
started in the autumn of 1931. The
proprietor and editor was the England
international Eric Findon.
Now the answer to Gerald’s question.
Table Tennis, the official organ of the
ETTA was first published on 22 November
1936. I am not fortunate
enough to have the first issue in my
collection but I do have number two
and over twenty others pre-WW2.
Each volume was eight issues and
initially each issue was eight pages.
For volume 3, in October 1937, the
format changed to sixteen pages inside
a cover. This format continued
for the two remaining years before
war intervened.
The re-emergence after the war
brought a new style. There was a
smaller format—only just over half its
original size. However, the paper was
glossier, the cover contained some
colour but the number of inside
pages remained sixteen.
Volume 8 in the autumn of 1949
brought an increase in size but still
not quite as big as the original and
still the same sixteen pages. The
number of pages steadily increased
to twenty-eight (plus the cover) until
bang!—October 1966 and a totally
different style.
This was the start of Table Tennis
News with numbering starting again
from one. At first this was in the style
more of a newspaper rather than
magazine and it was folded horizontally
for distribution. All the colour
was gone in a more austere publication.
The first issue began with the
following statement: “In an honest
endeavour to keep faith by providing
a news service, whilst at the same
time working within the narrow confines
of a budget squeeze no less
acute than Mr. Wilson’s, the Table
Tennis News is launched as an ETTA
publication”. [Mr. Wilson was British
Prime Minister at the time]. It goes on
to report that the 1966 European
Championships, held in England, had
been a financial failure.
Table Tennis News re-emerged two
years later with its seventeenth issue
in a style more akin to a magazine. It
more closely resembled its current
size, was of twenty pages including a
cover, and re-introduced a small
splash of colour into its title banner.
The May 1970 issue dealt the final
death blow to articles appearing on
the front cover and ever since this
has been the preserve of photographic
images. The front cover received
another makeover in October
Gerald writes:-
Some time ago I came across a
short run of 1930s magazines; these
were published (with 16 pages) from
October to May, under the editorship
of J.W.A. Connolly, sports writer of
the Sunday Express, and cost only
3d (less than 1.5 pence), and, most
remarkably, were “available from all
newsagents”.
They make fascinating reading—not
least for the advertisements: Jaques
tournament tables, “the most perfect
in the world”, and Ayres “super
championship” tables could be
bought for less than £10. Barna
“master rackets—Beware of imitations”
were 3s/9d (less than 20
pence), and Meteor three-piece balls
were 2s/6d (12.5 pence) a dozen.
I have selected a few items to give a
taste of those early days.
1983 and again in November 1985
since when there have been several
minor modifications and updates to
reach the glossy publication it is today.
Nowadays Table Tennis News is a
colourful magazine of 36 pages plus
the cover but for glossiness is not in
the same league as its ITTF counterpart
Table Tennis Illustrated (does
the ITTF know that this is a secondhand
name dating from 1931?).
There have been other table tennis
magazines in England. The Table
Tennis Review, edited by 1931 England
international Arthur Waite, ran
from about 1946 to at least 1955. It
had a smaller format than the ETTA
publication but contained a large
number of new items and articles of
great interest. Then between 1980
and 1982 there was the monthly Table
Tennis available from newsagents
across Britain.
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The items on this page have been supplied by Gerald Gurney. The article
below right had me wondering whether they ever did manage a museum
exhibition at the 1938 World’s. It couldn’t have matched the recent one in
Shanghai (see previous pages). My collection of magazines includes the
March 1938 issue with a report of the World Championships—but no mention
is made of an exhibition—GT.
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The Changing Face of Table Tennis (News)
The ETTA magazine has grown up
over time. Pictured here are some of
its major incarnations:
Clockwise from top left:
1936—8 pages for the first volume;
1938—a doubling to 16 pages and a
stiffer cover;
1946—post-war cover colour introduced
but a smaller format;
1949—back to a larger format and a
style that would last many years;
1966—the austere newspaper format
to save costs; the same cover
design was used for the 1968 reversion
to the standard size;
1980—typical of the time and an
English hero adorns the cover;
1989—another English hero depicted
on another design that lasted
many years;
2005—in the centre, bang up to date
with the current May 2005 issue.
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Philatelic Pages
Jan Nusteleijn and Jos Zinkstok continue the regular contribution
about table tennis stamps, post marks and other items of philatelic interest.
Guinee Bissau: 2004 Summer Olympics
in Athens. Sheet with 6 different
stamps and souvenir-sheet pictured
Ryu Seun-Min (South Korea) winner
of gold medal Men’s Singles and
Zhang Yining (China) winner of gold
medal Women’s Singles.
Stamps, Vignettes and Postcards
Rep. of Guinea: 2004.
They look ahead to the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008
China: vignet 1997.
Shanghai Sports Games
pictured one stamp issue:
3rd National Sports Games
1975 Michel no. 1248
Please send your contributions for
the philatelic pages to:
Jos Zinkstok
Neckarstraat 8
NL-9406 VN ASSEN
The Netherlands
Email: j.zinkstok@poveia.nl
Serbia: 2005.
50 th Anniversary of Montenegro
Table Tennis Federation.
Austria: 2004 collective sheet with 20
different stamps. Personalized
stamps with Austrian army sportsmen.
Names of the TT players: Werner
Schlager, Liu Jia and Chen Weixing.
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Pakistan: 9th SAF Games Islamabad
29-03-2004.
Sheet of 16 stamps with several
sports in different designs.
China: WTTC Shanghai 2005.
Sheet with 8 identical stamps and
different tabs to commemorate the
event.
North Korea: 2005.
Souvenir-sheet (3 different) with Mao-Tse-Tung, Jan Ove Waldner, Zhang Yining, Pak Yung Sun, Wang Liqin, Werner
Schlager perforated and imperforated. Also issued in booklets and on First Day Cover.
North Korea: 20-12-2004.
Sheet of 8 stamps (announcement
TTC no. 37) overprinted names of
Olympic Champions (no TT players)
and Moscow 1980 Salute Beijing
2008 in silver and gold.
China: postcard Shanghai WTTC
2005 with Yin Yin (mascot of the tournament)
in green.
All stamps showed at 100% and sheetlet and sheets at 50% or 25%
North Korea: 2005.
Postcard issued in set of 6 (one
example above—issued with and
without overprint).
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Serbia: 11-07-2003.
46th European Youth Championships
held in Novi Sad.
Japan: 18-10-2004.
17th Nenlympic
City: Kiryu.
China: 02-01-2005.
Master Table Tennis Games
City: Sozhou.
Italy: 19-02-2005.
Filatelic Sport Festival in Bergamo.
Cancellations
China: Olympic Games Athens 22-08-2004.
Gold medal of Zhang Yining is the 100 th gold medal in the Summer Olympic
Games (cancellation left) and Ma Lin/Chen Qi won the gold medal in Men’s
Doubles (right). Cancellation of City Nan Tong (residence of Chen Qi).
China: Olympic Games Athens 2004.
Ji Nen post office triumph cancellation
for 100 th gold medal won by
Zhang Yining (left part) during the
Olympic Games since 1984.
Japan: 23-10-2004.
59th National Athletic Meeting
City: Kasukabe.
Croatia: 19-01-2005.
The 9th Croatian Open in Zagreb.
Japan: 30-04-2004.
28th World Stamp Show.
City: Asakusa.
Japan: 13-11-2004.
4th National Paralympics
City: Gyoda.
Italy: 28-01-2005.
21st European Youth Top 12 held in
Molfetta.
The Netherlands: 06-01-2005.
Redmeter N.T.T.B. – Netherlands Table-Tennis Association.
Office: City of Zoetermeer – colour red-orange.
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France: 09-02-2005. Redmeter Office Central League in Selbris printed in blue.
48th World Table-Tennis Championships held from 29th April to 6th May in Shanghai - China
2 cancellations on a special cover to announce the event. Colours: red and black. Picture postmark of Shanghai Table
Tennis Gymnasium.
48th WTTC cancellation in red, blue
and black in 31 and 35 mm.
Cancellation in black of City: Jinan
Issued by Wulumugi Post-Office: Triumphal
cancellation in honour of the
5 cups they won at the event. Colour:
red.
Cancellations in red and….. Cancellation in blue.
Cancellation in black of City Haimen.
Cancellation in black of City Gangu.
All cancellations showed from 85% to 100%.
For their contributions to these pages we want to thank Bob op de Beeck, Winfried
Engelbrecht, Anton Zwiebel and our special thanks to Tang Ganxian and
Gao Yi-Bin for their great support—JZ and JN.
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