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25 April 2004 [Note from the Editor: This update is a slightly different version from that distributed to Coubertin.com email subscribers. It excludes email addresses to prevent their automated gathering and spamming. It also excludes names and telephone numbers to protect our members' privacy. For full versions of updates you need to be a member and a subscriber.] A big welcome to all new members of the Coubertin.com Olympic Collectors' Auction service and a special thank you to all members who have participated in the auction. There are now 887 active members! Coubertin.com brings together more Olympic Collectors than any other club, society or organisation in the world. NEW 1924 PARIS and 1924 CHAMONIX PUBLICATIONS Two new publications are being distributed by AFCOS (Association Francaise des Collectioneurs Olympiques & Sportifs). These publications are superb and great value for money too. 1924 CHAMONIX published in the French language only. 1924 PARIS is in both French and English. Superbly illustrated with postcards issued during the Games. Prices for the 1924 PARIS publication, for advanced orders only, are 30 Euros for the softback plus postage and 40 Euros plus postage for the hardback. The 1924 CHAMONIX publication is 40 Euros for the softback plus postage and 50 Euros plus postage for the hardback. AFCOS is accepting advance orders for the 1924 PARIS publication now. The 1924 CHAMONIX book has already been published. More information from AFCOS through the http://www.afcos.org/ website. SOCIETY OF OLYMPIC COLLECTORS PACKET New collectors service! All members of the Society of Olympic Collectors will be pleased to know that they can now subscribe to the new International Exchange Packet. More details through the www.societyofolympiccollectors.org website. 2004 LAUSANNE OLYMPIC FAIR Those of you who would like to attend the Olympic Fair at Lausanne should be thinking about booking flights and hotels if you haven't already done so. The event is on between May 28 - 30 at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Further details at their website at www.collectors.olympic.org/e/fino/fino_fair10_e.html . WENLOCK OLYMPIAN GAMES July 9 - 12 at Much Wenlock, Shropshire, United Kingdom. Planned philatelic display by the Society of Olympic Collectors. QUADRENNIAL MEETING of the ISOH The International Society of Olympic Historians has announced that their Quadrennial Meeting will take place at Omilos Ereton in Piraeus, Greece on Sunday, August 15, 2004. All members of the ISOH are welcome. More details through their website at www.isoh.org .
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