Cricket Stamps....help With Dates Please?

Hi there,

I would be grateful for a little help - I'm trying to track down the dates of issue of a few sets of cricket-related stamps, but am having no luck. The stamps are :

1923 - St. Christopher (Kitts) Nevis - Tercentenary of colonisation
1953 - Trinidad and Tobago - Definitives (QE II)
1967 - Ceylon - Centenary of Galle Municipal Council
1972 - Sharjah and Khor Fakkan - Sports

Any and all info very gratefully received, so thanks in advance!

GS

I am of little help on this.
I only have a Middle East catalogue and it tells me that the Sharjah Sports series was the first issued in 1972 but no specific date. Judging from the number of issues in that year, January seems like a good guess.
Khor Fakkan did not issue any stamps independently in 1972.

The issue above is in the appendix section of a SG catalogue.
"Not enough evidence of Postal use" ! Much like most of todays gumbo from most western nations.....hypocrits Gibbons, list 'em !

May I broadcast my ignorance, and equire what these have to do with cricket please?

1923 - St. Christopher (Kitts) Nevis - Tercentenary of colonisation
No date given (SG brit comm)others under st kitts offer dates, so one may assume the official date is unknown

1953 - Trinidad and Tobago - Definitives (QE II)
20th april 1953

1967 - Ceylon - Centenary of Galle Municipal Council
5th january 1967

1972 - Sharjah and Khor Fakkan - Sports
I take 1965 as the last date for genuine issues, later issues made for collectors, and are commonly known as "dune stamps"
If you supply an image of the offender, I'll see what I can do for dates.

I might add Khor Fakkan was a "stamp issuing authority" from 1965,
I have a hazy recollection of a case going to court with a supplier charged
with selling forgeries or non authorised labels in London.
It was held that the King or the ruler of the territory, did in fact give authority to print the emmissions. Something like that.
Very few are evidenced of actually doing postage duty.

The cricket stamp from Sharjah (cricket-the sport)
is one I remember quite vividly, is the batsman taking guard with the back of the bat facing the bowler?

Here are 800 cricket stamps (cricket the sport)from my own collection.

wow rod fascinating do yo also have the stamps featured in the cd?

GS:

You might be interested in this website, originally posted by Bobgggg:
http://www.cricketstamp.net/

KirkS

G'day Spock1K,
goodness gracious, definitely not :(,
I wish. I collect cricket stamps, but do not posess the dedication to follow one pursuit, and continulally get led off course.
It is nice to have as a reference however.

Thank you all very much for your help - I'm aware of www.cricketstamp.net, but it doesn't have the dates that I was looking for.

Thanks again

GS

Rod,

In answer to your question :

1923 St. Kitts - one of the stamps features the Warner Park Ground, today site of the Warner Park Stadium which is (or was) a test match venue.
1953 T&T - one of the stamps features the Queens Park Ground, a test match venue.
1967 Ceylon - the only stamp in the issue features Galle Park, home of the Galle Stadium, one of the world's loveliest cricket grounds.

All a bit tangential, so I wouldn't consider you ignorant!

GS

Thank you so much GS, I'll be archiving your response.
To remain on a tangential slew, may I suggest another 2 you may not be aware of?
Now don't take my word as gospel, but I am sure I heard a snippet on radio the other day that Australia's first prime minister Edmund Barton was a 1st class cricket umpire.
It will need checking of course, but if so, can be a feather in your cap perchance :)

Literature you may wish to be advised of as existing, GS

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He was indeed - he crops up on Australian stamps in 1951, 1969 and 2001, I believe, but I'm afraid I don't class them as cricket stamps.

For me, to qualify as a cricket stamp it must feature a cricketer in their capactiy as a cricketer. Edmund Barton is a very good example - others include Samuel Becket and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, both of whom played first class cricket, and both of whom feature on stamps, but none of the three feature on stamps in their capacity as cricketers.

Thanks for the heads-up on the literature, although I don't collect postcards I'll try and track down a copy to see if it contains any stamps I'm unaware of.

GS

In 1977 I received this item I think from the Australian postal service. The card is folded and came in the envelope shown (reverse of envelope is glassine so you can see the stamps). Does anyone have information on its' true origin?

Outside of Card:

Inside of Card:




Cover:




Food for thought: Cricket is both a game and a bug. So, do you get bugged by crickets at a cricket game?

I stamp a lot of crickets in my basement...the ones the cat doesn't eat.

The origin is Australia Post.

It is a standard catalogued "stamp pack"
not advised to leave the stamps in it long term

Don't recall ever being bugged by crickets at cricket,
but in the 3rd test at Adelaide circa 1980's
we were madly running around trying to detain a seagull
that had caught it's leg in the hook part of a plastic clothes hanger
where ladies hang their tiny strapped garments.

It could take off and fly a short distance before
the weight of the hanger brought it down.

Not sure of the outcome

I do recall getting very sunburnt.