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1948 26 April 1948 Royal Silver Wedding Two (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, £1) 29 July 1948 Olympic Games Four (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 3d, 6d, 1s) 1949 10 October 1949 75th Anniversary of Universal Postal Union: Four (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 3d, 6d, 1s) 1951 3 May 1951 Festival of Britain: Two (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 4d) 3 May 1951
Silver wedding 26 April 1948 (first issue to commemorate a personal Royal occasion rather than a state event, £1 value was the first British stamp designed by a woman and the issue is notable for the omission of the words 'postage' and 'revenue'). Channel Islands Liberation 10 May 1948; Olympic Games 29 July 1948
Post-war issues included commemoratives for the return of peace, the Silver Jubilee and the 1948 Summer Olympics in 1948, and the 75th anniversary of the UPU, in 1949. In 1950 the colours of all the low values were changed. 1951 saw a new series of high values (2s 6d, 5s, 10s, £1), and two commemoratives for the Festival of Britain .
The 1940 Olympic Games had been scheduled for Tokyo and then for Helsinki, while the 1944 Olympic Games had been provisionally planned for London. This was the second time London hosted the Olympic Games, having previously hosted them in 1908 , making it the second city to host summer olympics twice (after Paris).
The United States team being awarded their gold medals for the Men's coxed fours. The 1948 Summer Olympics (also known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad) was an international multi-sport event held from July 29 through August 14, 1948, in London, United Kingdom.
Delfo Cabrera Gómez (April 2, 1919 – August 2, 1981) was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in one of the most dramatic finishes in athletics history. Biography