Cricket Ground Cancellations

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

Cert. RPS (2016)

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