Barbados Cricket Buckle

[3][4] "That the belt buckle depicts the slave, unmistakably in bondage, with bat in hand, suggests that the creator must have detected in their cricketing endeavours the germ of the quest for self-expression, if not liberation."

[7] The Buckle was found in 1979 in a gravel spit in the River Tweed, close to the Anglo-Scottish border, by an English holiday-maker, Clive Williams, a retired advertising consultant from London, with a metal detector.

[3] It depicts a "well-muscled mulatto, probably the offspring of a white overseer and a black slave mother" at the wicket being bowled out.

To his left a wattle and daub slave hut can be seen and to the right a windmill processing sugarcane by a Caribbean royal palm tree.

[9] Barbados suffered a highly destructive hurricane in October 1780 which obliterated most palms, windmills and slave huts.

The Central Bank of Barbados authorised the Royal Mint to strike a limited number of proof coins to mark the discovery of the Barbadian Buckle.

Two Pride of Barbados (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) flowers and one of the island's Bearded Fig Trees (ficus citrifolia) are depicted on the shield.

Above the shield is a crest consisting of a raised forearm holding crossed sugar cane stalks above a helmet and mantling.

101 of the 50c stamp were issued in error featuring a photograph of Edward Lawson "Barto" Bartlett instead of Herman Griffith.

All other postal counters had their stocks recovered before 9am on Monday 6 June 1988 and the corrected 50c stamps depicting Griffith were issued on 11 July 1988.