Sportens 2006-2012

Steve wrote: The original Sportens were all invariantly dated 2005, even on the variants. But these new ones all seem to have different dates 2F is 2006 4F is 2008 5F is 2007 8F is 2010 11F is 2009 Any logic to this I wonder.

Well spotted! I'd never even noticed that the squiggles on the earlier stamps read as 2005 before. But now you point it out, and the different years on the new stamps, it's a slap oneself on the forehead job.

Steve wrote: Has anybody noticed how odd the cricketer image is? There seems to be 4 stumps to the wicket.

Good spot again! Maybe it is the variant stamp rather than the common?

There are at least two 11F golfers.  Mine, split in half though he is, is in the "addressing the ball" pose.  The perforation goes right through where his balls should be (edited to say - ooops! sorry, I meant "where the ball should be" of course).  I'll do a scan when I can.

Out of interest I looked up whether there used to be four stumps in a wicket.  No.  It seems that three is a very recent innovation having been introduced as recently as 1775.  But it used to be two stumps and one bail.  Making it look like a wicket gate - hence wicket.

Keith

Yep, here's a variant that I have not seen on here yet

I do hope that the above post was not too large ??