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Post by octavius on Aug 3, 2022 16:02:53 GMT
That's according to SG: He was also featured on 3 stamps back in 1973: Cheers!
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Aug 3, 2022 20:51:13 GMT
I thought that looked like a cricket bat!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 3, 2022 21:08:35 GMT
octavius and brightonpete : Well, the implement in Grace's hands is clearly a cricket bat, but look below that.... there's a tennis racket. I didn't notice it at first. The 7-pointed star is right on top of it. I am not sure that I understand the connection between Grace the cricketer and tennis, but there is an image of a tennis racket on the stamp. 
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Post by anglobob on Aug 3, 2022 21:52:41 GMT
I don,t believe there is any link between WG Grace and tennis other than they are two examples of popular sports played in the two countries. I am surprised there are no similar thoughts about the other 34p stamp ...I don,t believe William Shakespeare ever appeared at the Sydney Opera House.....  |
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Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2022 22:04:11 GMT
If one draws the inference that W.G. Grace was also a tennis player, then similarly, Queen Elizabeth II would also be an Australian Parliament Building.
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Post by octavius on Aug 4, 2022 0:28:51 GMT
Well, he was quite good at other sports but tennis is not mentioned.
I'm not quite sure what all of this has to do with the Bicentenary of Australian Settlement except that "...He played for England in 22 Tests through the 1880s and 1890s, all of them against Australia..." (wikipedia), one time scoring a 100.
Cheers
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Post by paul1 on Aug 4, 2022 8:22:10 GMT
Suppose it might be argued that Shakespeare, Lennon and SOH, each represent subjects of cultural interest/activity - over the years there have been multiple occasions of big time interest where Oz and GB have been involved with tennis and cricket but maybe the design brief assumed that Grace would be better known than Laver. Is 'Early Settler a euphemism for 'convict'? - and no reference to indigenous peoples of Oz then ? Perhaps not the best thought out series of stamp designs bearing in mind that Bicentenary means two centuries.
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