Benham first day tribute cover to Sir Steven Redgrave with set of five commemoratives stamps ‘Olympics and Paralympics 1996.’ The stamps were issued on July 9, 1996.

The stamps are:-

26p Athlete on the Starting Blocks

26p Throwing the Javelin

26p Basketball

26p Swimming

26p Athlete Celebrating and Olympic Rings

Postmarked:- Wembley, 9th July 1996.

This cover has been doubled with a 32c marathon stamp from the USA.

Postmarked:- Atlanta, GA, 30304, May 2 1996

This Official licensed Cover has the Olympic logo on the front cover.

This tribute cover to Steven Redgrave has a lovely silk picture of him rowing.

Sir Stephen Geoffrey Redgrave CBE, DL (born 1962) is now a British British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championship golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport. He received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year-Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

Only 250 covers were issued, this is cover 57 of 250.

The reverse of the cover has the certification and some information about Steven Redgrave.

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