POSTER STAMPS AND LABELS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES

1932 - III Winter Games - Lake Placid

Official poster and emblem for the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid

The following poster stamps were issued for the 1932 Winter Games:

Click on image below to open an enlarged version in a separate window/tab
Click on the DuBois number beneath the image to display technical data about that label.  

#1932-W-1 to 4 DuBois listing: 1. "III Olympic Winter Games" at top; "Lake Placid, USA February 4-13 1932" at bottom; vertically printed above the "A" of USA: "PTD. U.S.A." Vignette, between texts: A silhouette of a ski jumper, dark blue & black with a white upper outline(indicating motion); background: a white outline of the USA in a variable-blue, circular area; a location-dot, on the outline-area, is surrounded by a dark blue "LAKE PLACID" - the artist's signature, in black "WITOLD GORDON," is at lower left, just within the circle; Olympic rings are below the circle and in their usual multicolors(interlaced as on the original flag); 32x47mm, perf 14, upper & lower texts are dark blue ... $5.00 2. Same as 1 but German text: "III Olympische Winterspiele" at top; "Lake Placid, USA 4-13 Februar 1932" at bottom ... $9.00 3. Same as 1 but French text: "III Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver" at top; "Lake Placid du 4 au 13 Fevrier 1932" at bottom ... $10.00 4. Same as 1 but Spanish text: "III Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno" at top; "Lake Placid USA Febrero 4-13, 1932" at bottom ... $15.00 The above labels were issued in sheets of 50(10x5), SE4S, producing 26 straight-edged copies per sheet. Copies with one or two straight edges are worth about 6O% of the above-indicated values.

DuBois listing:

5. "LAKE PLACID NEW YORK" above; "3rd. OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES 1932" below. Vignette: a ski jumper at take-off(front view); spectators at both sides, above lower text panel; torches at both sides of upper text panel. 28x47mm, perf 12. black, gray & orange ... $20.00
Sheets of 10(5x2), SE4S, thus all labels have 1 or 2 str. edges.

( CLICK HERE for a B&W image of a full pane of 10, from SPI's catalogue of the 1932 FDCs and vignettes.)

NOT IN DUBOIS

Is this a seal or an imprint?

#1932W-x1

This was on the image of a First Day Cover on the www, and could be a cachet, but it looks like an embossed foil seal.

Text reads "III OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES" across the top, and "LAKE PLACID 1932" at the bottom.

CAN ANYONE SUPPLY MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS?

10/26/16 - I found this image of the Contestant's badge - same design.

8/19/19 - I found an ebay listing for an identical cover, title = "GOLD MEDAL CACHET" - so I think that answers the question - this is NOT a label or seal.

NOT IN DUBOIS

Is this a seal or an imprint?

#1932W-x2

1932 OLYMPIC TEAM
LAKE PLACID USA
Vignette: a rounded square,
thin red border,
ski jumper in flight against blue background,
white snowflakes, multicolored Olympic rings
22.5x22.5mm

From a Feldman auction - see image below.
This could be a cutout.

Philippe Pavard supplied the image below, of this item on a cover - again, it looks odd - the lack of any sort of perforations, and the appearance of scissor marks, suggest it could be a cutout.

10/21/16 - the owner wrote: ...it is impossible to peel the label off with cold or warm water - in my opinion a cutout, with modern glue.

I did a Google Image Search for the design, and found that it was used for the US team badge for the 1932 Winter Games - image below-

NOT IN DUBOIS

1932-W-x3
"1932" with Olympic rings and (winged?) female figure in Greek robe on a plaque or urn.
(Image courtesy of the Olympic Games Museum.)
The source says this is a label (vignette), but I have not seen it in that form. It does have the Olympic rings. The same design is stamped in gold on the cover of the official report on the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Games:

 

And it turns out this was one of the official logos of the 1932 Winter Games, used on medals and tickets. I think 1932-x1 is the back side of a laminated plastic Bleacher Season Ticket, not a label or vignette - 2nd image.

BELOW: More tickets, and a Contestant's Medal.

   
1932W-x4 and Paraguay Scott 754

6/15/2020 - The first day cover above, for US Scott 716, showed up on eBay recently, and I saved the image, because the cachet looked like it *might* be a label, and a candidate for this page. When I fed it into Google's image search today, back came a link to a page with the stamp at right, from Paraguay, in 1963! The images are not just similar, they are IDENTICAL! What's up here? Granted, someone very helpfully stamped the note "ADD-ON" on the back of the cover, so it's possible the label was not put there until 1963, but still. Really?