Basketball Stamps
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The earliest known postage stamp: A Philippines stamp commemorating the 1934 Far Eastern Championship Games.
The sport of basketball has been gracing postage stamps since 1934, when the U.S. administrators of the Philippines issued the 16 cent commemorative pictured at right.
Here's a sampling of other stamps.
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Angola
 1999 |
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Belgium
 1990 |
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Bhutan
 1968 Olympics |
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China
 1992 |
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Croatia
 1994 |
 2005 |
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Egypt
 1984 |
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Germany
 1997 |
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Greece
 1987 |
 1987 |
 1998 |
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Latvia
 1993 |
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Lithuania
 1939 |
 1993 |
 2003 |
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North Korea
 2000 |
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Philippines
1934 |
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Rwanda
 1966 |
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Slovenia
 Commemorates Sixth World Maxibasketball Championship, 2001. |
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USSR
 1956 Spartakiade Games commemorative |
 1960 Olympics commemorative |
 1988 Olympics commemorative |
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United Nations
 First UN stamp commemorating the Olympics, 1996. |
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USA
 Celebrating the centennial of Dr. James Naismith's birth, 1961 |
 Celebrating the centennial of basketball's invention, 1991 |
