Australian Post Office, Sports souvenir cover (Cat GP12), 6¾ size (90 mm x 165 mm), over printed in black Olympic City of Melbourne 1956 * 1996, with sport stamp, postmarked 16 March 1990, Austamp 90, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra, commemorative postmark, 96 serviced.

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Souvenir (event) envelope, 100 mm x 200 mm, with verse from closing song of 1956 Melbourne Olympics in red, 45¢ Sport stamp, postmarked 19 March 1990, Austamp 90, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra, commemorative postmark, 25 serviced.

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Australian Post Office, first day cover, DL size (110 mm x 220 mm), for Sport Series II, over printed in black with verse from closing song of 1956 Melbourne Olympics, $1.00 (airmail rate to U S A) Melbourne Olympics 56 * 96 and outline of the MCG (main stadium of 1956 Olympics) franking machine meter slogan, dated 18 September 1990, 96 serviced.

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Souvenir (event) envelope, 100 mm x 200 mm, with verse from closing song of 1956 Melbourne Olympics in red, 43¢ (local rate) Sport stamp, machine postmark, 18 September 1990, Melbourne Mail Centre, tying 100 Club 1996 full colour official publicity label for use on envelopes, 26 serviced.

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Australian Post Office, Sports souvenir cover (Cat GP12), 6¾ size (90 mm x 165 mm), over printed in black Olympic City of Melbourne 1956í 1996 , $1 Athletics stamp, cancelled 18 September 1990, Philatelic Sales Centre, Melbourne, pictorial postmark, addressed Poste Restante Tokyo, with arrival and returned markings of Tokyo (Japan) and Dandenong (Australia), 13 serviced.

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Australian Post Office, Sports souvenir cover (Cat GP12), 6¾ size (90 mm x 165 mm), over printed in black Olympic City of Melbourne 1956í 1996, $1.20 Sports stamp, cancelled 18 September 1990, GPO Melbourne, pictorial postmark, over printed in black on reverse with IOC ballot details, 30 serviced.

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American First Day Cover Society, general purpose cover (GP3), 6¾ size (90 mm x 165 mm), 43¢ Sport stamp (local rate), cancelled 18 September 1990, GPO Melbourne, pictorial postmark, over printed in black on reverse with IOC ballot details, 50 serviced.

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Souvenir (event) envelope, 6¾ size (90 mm x 165 mm), original design by Geerlings of Salem, Oregon, USA, showing the Melbourne Cricket Ground (main stadium for the 1956 Olympics) with portrait of Martin Luther King Jr and caption 1956 Olympic City Melbourne hopes all the dreams of 1996 Olympic City Atlanta are fully realised!, hand painted in eleven water colours, $1 Athletics stamp (airmail rate to USA), postmarked 18 September 1990, Melbourne GPO, pictorial postmark, with insert, limited numbered edition of 96.

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Envelope, DL size (110 mm x 220 mm), postage paid imprint, approved by Australia Post on 10 October 1986 for mailings at GPO Melbourne, in red and blue, showing outline of Melbourne Cricket Ground (Main Stadium of the 1956 Olympics), 33 used through the mail to local address.

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