Olympic Games 2012 - Overprint Sheetlets, Guyana

Wenlock and Mandeville are the official mascots of the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2012 Paralympics. They were first introduced on May 19, 2010. They represent two anthromorphic, one-eyed drops of steel from the steel industry in Bolton. They are named after Much Wenlock in Shropshire, the site of a precursor to the modern Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, where a precursor to the Paralympics took place in 1948 . The writer Michael Morpurgo wrote two stories for children with the mascot in the lead role, based on which four cartoons were added.