Telegraph offices were set up by the GPO to cater for reporters’ submissions to their newspapers in the days before telephones. About thirty different cancellations are known.
Birmingham Cricket Ground
![]() | Size: 250mm diameter, lettering 25mm high Proof date: 15.06.93 |
History: Sold on eBay (Buy it now) for £28.99 March 2017
Bradford Cricket Ground
![]() | Size: 235mm diameter, lettering 20mm high Proof date: 14.09.87 |
![]() | Size: 250mm diameter, lettering 30mm high Proof date: ? |
Brighton Cricket Ground
![]() | Size: 220mm diameter, lettering 20mm high Proof date: 13.07.87 |
History: Sold on eBay, Jan 2015, for £2656.40
History: Sold on eBay (Buy it now) for £38.99 March 2017
History: Sold on eBay (Buy it now) for £38.99 March 2017
Bristol Cricket Ground
![]() | Size: 235mm diameter, lettering 20mm high Proof date: ? |
![]() | Size: 220mm diameter, lettering 30mm high Proof date: 10.07.93 |
Derby Cricket Ground
![]() | Size: 250mm diameter, lettering 30mm high Proof date: 9.03.98 |
Cert. RPS
History: Sold on eBay by Steve Allen for £1’250 (buy it now), Aug 2022
Dover Cricket Ground
![]() | Size: 250mm diameter, lettering 30mm high Proof date: 21.08.09 |
Halifax Cricket Ground
Cert. RPS (1994)
History: Sold on eBay by BygonesofBridlington for £1561.95 in March 2013
Leyton Cricket Ground
History: Sold on eBay, April 2014, for £1800
Lords Cricket Ground
History: Sold by Andrew Vaughan (Aug 2016) for £1750; SG Auctions, July 2021, lot 788, sold £1’600+20%+5% VAT
History: Sold on eBay September 2016 for £1’617.89 plus postage
Nottingham Cricket Ground
History: Not sold on eBay with a minimum bid price of £2’500, Feb 2015
Sheffield Cricket Ground
History: Sold on eBay for £2850, July 2016
History: For sale by Andrew Lajer for £950 (March 2015)
Taunton Cricket Ground
History: Sold on eBay for £392.45

History: Sold for £355.67 on eBay in April 2020
References
- Cricket Ground Handstamps of the Victorian and Edwardian Era, by C. T. Hinneburg-Murphy, Gibbons Stamp Monthly September 1988, pp.40-41
- Stampboards.com
- PhilatelicWeb Postmark Database