List of stamps depicting the Commonwealth Games

List of stamps depicting the Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games has been commemorated in the postage stamps of a number of nations. Unlike the Olympic Games the first celebrations of the Commonwealth Games did not appear on stamps. The first Commonwealth Games stamps were issued in connection with the Games in Cardiff in 1958, although there were philatelic labels issued for Games prior to 1958.


=1938 Sydney=

* Australia, 1938, Philatelic label
* Australia, 1938, 150th anniversary of New South Wales, SG 193-195 (Not Commonwealth Games, but the games were held in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of New South Wales)


=1958 Cardiff=

* Great Britain, 1958, SG 567-569


=1962 Perth=

* Australia, 1962, SG 346-347
* Papua & New Guinea, 1962, SG 39-41


=1966 Kingston=

* Jamaica, 1966, SG 254-257, 257a
* Jamaica, 1966, SG MS258
* Kenya Uganda Tanzania, 1966, SG 227-230


=1970 Edinburgh=

* Calf of Man, 1970, British local issue not listed in Stanley Gibbons (set of 5 values and Miniature Sheet)
* Gambia, 1970, SG 262-264
* Great Britain, 1970, SG 832-834
* Kenya Uganda Tanzania, 1970, SG 280-283
* Malawi, 1970, SG 351-354
* Malawi, 1970, SG MS355
* Swaziland, 1970, SG 180-183


=1974 Christchurch=

* Cook Islands, 1974, SG 455-459
* Cook Islands, 1974, SG MS460
* Fiji, 1974, SG 489-491
* New Zealand, 1974, SG 1041-1045 [http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/Stamps/StampsHistoricalIssues/1974+-+1970/Commonwealth+Games.htm]
* New Zealand, 1974, SG MS1046
* Samoa, 1974, SG 422-425
* Tonga, 1974, SG 469-478
* Tonga, 1974, SG O109-O111


=1982 Brisbane=

* Anguilla, 1982, SG 530-533
* Ascension Island, 1982, SG 326-327
* Australia, 1982, SG 859-862
* Australia, 1982, SG MS863
* Australia, 1982, SG MS863 (overprinted with "ANPex 82 National Stamp Exhibition 1982" on non-stamp portion of Miniature Sheet)
* Australia, 1982, Aerogram with printed stamp
* Falkland Islands, 1982, SG 431-432
* Great Britain, 1982, Commemorative Sheet issued for Stampex 82
* Guyana, 1982, SG 1005
* Kenya, 1984, SG 457
* Papua New Guinea, 1982, SG 460-463
* St Helena, 1982, SG 401-402
* Samoa, 1982, SG 625-628
* Solomon Islands, 1986, SG 473-474
* Solomon Islands, 1982, SG MS476
* Tonga, 1982, SG 823-824
* Tristan da Cunha, 1982, SG 335-336

1982 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, Bombay

* India, 1980, SG 967


=1986 Edinburgh=

* Great Britain, 1986, SG 1328-1331
* Guernsey, 1986, SG 371-376
* Isle of Man, 1986, SG 306-309
* Kenya, 1986, stamps prepared but not issued {"a few rural post offices did issue the stamps, so used examples have been seen")
* Tonga, 1986, SG 948-949


=1990 Auckland=

* New Zealand, 1989, SG 1530-1537
* New Zealand, 1989, SG MS1538
* Tanzania, 1990, SG 817-820
* Tanzania, 1990, SG MS821
* Tonga, 1990, SG 1065-1069


=1994 Victoria=

* Canada, 1994, SG 1590-1595
* Hong Kong, 1994, SG 783-786
* Nauru, 1994, SG 421


=1998 Kuala Lumpur=

* Fiji, 1998, SG 1026-1029
* Fiji, 1998, SG MS1030
* Malaysia, 1994, SG 548-549
* Malaysia, 1995, SG 575-576
* Malaysia, 1996, SG 627-630
* Malaysia, 1997, SG 668-671
* Malaysia, 1998, SG MS678
* Malaysia, 1998, SG 693-708
* Malaysia, 1998, SG MS716
* Malaysia, 1998, Aerogram with printed stamp
* Nauru, 1998, SG 483-486
* Nauru, 1998, SG MS487
* Norfolk Island, 1998, SG 679-681
* Norfolk Island, 1998, SG MS682
* Papua New Guinea, 1998, SG 841-844


=2002 Manchester=

* Australia, 2002, Aerogram with printed stamp
* British Virgin Islands, 2003, SG 1116-1117
* Great Britain, 2002, SG 2299-2303
* Isle of Man, 2002, SG 976-981
* Norfolk Island, 2002, SG 809-812
* Pabay, 2002, British Local Issue not listed by Stanley Gibbons (3 values in a Miniature Sheet)
* St Kitts, 2003, SG 718-719
* Samoa, 2002, SG 1126
* Tonga, 2002, SG 1523-1526


=2006 Melbourne=

* Australia, 2005, 1v issued for the Queen's 79th Birthday, featured Commonwealth Games logo
* Australia, 2006, 1v, commonwealth Games stamp
* Australia, 2006, 3v, Commonwealth Games Stamps
* Australia, 2006, Opening Ceremony Miniature Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 1 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 2 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 3 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 4 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 5 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 6 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 7 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 8 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 9 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Day 10 Sheet
* Australia, 2006, Closing Ceremony Sheet
* Norfolk Island, 2006, Queens Baton Relay stamps
* Norfolk Island, 2006, Commonwealth Games issue


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