Gibraltar year 2002 – EUROPA CEPT Circus postage stamps set

Gibraltar year 2002 – EUROPA CEPT Circus postage stamps set

📮 Overview

• Country: Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory)
• Issue Year: 2002
• Series: EUROPA (CEPT) 2002 – The Circus
  EUROPA is an annual joint stamp issue by European postal administrations with a common theme selected each year; in 2002 the theme was The Circus.
• Issue Date: 4 March 2002 (for Gibraltar)

🎪 Theme & Design

• The set depicts famous historical circus clowns as part of the 2002 Europa theme “The Circus.”
• Subjects featured on the four stamps include:
  • 30p – Mr Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837), famed English clown of the Regency era.
  • 40p – Karl Adrien Wettach “Grock” (1880–1959), Swiss clown celebrated as “King of Clowns.”
  • 42p – Nikolai Polakovs, OBE (Coco the Clown) (1900–1974), Latvian-born clown popular in Britain.
  • 54p – Jean Hubert Charles Cairoli (1910–1980), Italian-French clown, impressionist and musician.

📦 Format & Cataloguing

• The set is a set of four individual stamps (often listed as Sc. 901–904 in Gibraltar catalogs).