Ebay Chess on Stamps

Here on Top eBay Chess Items by Price (March 2010), I was sure that I had already featured a stamp or two, but while searching the blog for today's post I came up empty handed. That probably means that stamps might occasionally make the short list for a post, but I eventually choose another item for the final post.

The item pictured below is one page of an auction titled, 'Chess on Stamps White Ace albums with dj 590 items 4 albums MNH MH CTO'. It sold for US $673.00 after one bid, which was also the starting price.

The Azerbaijan album page pictured above was one of 24 pages used to illustrate the auction. The description of the auction said,

Over 70 territories represented
Over 390 stamps
Over 180 mini sheets
8 covers
CV is $1996.00

I had to look up the acronyms used in the listing:-

MNH

Mint Never Hinged

MH

Mint Hinged

CTO

Cancelled-To-Order; cancels printed on the stamp without having been used.

CV

Catalog Value

The Azerbaijan Disney stamps were issued in November 1998. An old post on this blog, Karpov at Disney (October 2015), mentioned a number of Disneyland Paris events, among them:-

The November 1998 event was the World Youth Rapidplay Championship (U12 & U14).

This isn't exactly the same as the name 'World Rapid Chess Championship' shown on the stamps, but it's close enough. Disney is more often associated with youth than it is with senior citizens.