top row:       MI 873 A (perforated)

MI 873 A with blue colour shift

middle row:  MI 873 B Imperforated)

MI 873 A SS

bottom row: MI 869-76 A se-tenant

The designer of the stamp used

this photo which comes from the

book °Olympia 72° by W.

Umminger and other authors,

published by Roemer Verlag

1972, page 170. It shows the

six finalists of the M2X

competition parading on the

water after their race with the

gold medal winners Alexander

Timoshinin & Gennadi Korshikov

(URS) in the foreground. The

silver and bronze medallists

NOR and GDR follow in the

adjacent lanes.