Buckingham first day cover with the miniature sheet of 6 commemorative stamps, celebrating ‘London Being the 2012 Host City’ for the 2012 Olympics, was issued on 5.8.2005.

This Buckingham London Wins 2012 Olympic Bid cover also has a 1/- (one shilling) Stamp and

The set of 6 x 1st class stamps are:- Victory x 2, Javelin, Swimming, Athletics and Basketball.

Postmarked :- Host City, London (With Runner), 5 August 2005.

The front of the cover lists in gold all of the cities that have hosted the Olympic Games from Athens 1896 to Beijing 2008. There are also various landmarks from some of these cities pictured (also in gold).

The reverse of the cover has a gold cachet which states: Chairman of the British Olympic Association and Olympic silver medalist Lord Moynihan, will sign no more than 100 Buckingham Olympic London 2012 covers.

This cover is number 37 of 100.

He won a silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Games.

Colin Barclay Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan (born 1955 ) is a British Olympic Coxswain, businessmen, Conservative politician and sports minister. Lord Moynihan service as Chairman 

of the British Olympic Association (BOA) from 2005 to 2012.

The reverse of the cover also has information about the Olympics and the bidding for it.

Information sheet about Lord Colin Moynihan enclosed.

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