12/11/2007
Christmas Stamps Add Festive Cheer
After a long running and occasionally bitter industrial dispute at Royal Mail earlier this year, it's particularly appropriate that heavenly angels bearing messages of peace, goodwill joy and glory should feature on this year’s Christmas stamps.
The festive stamps, available now, depict a selection of colourful and musical angels, designed by Italian illustrator Marco Ventura.
He created four designs for the stamps in a style suggestive of Renaissance art, each showing an angel playing a musical instrument in a snowy countryside scene. There are six stamps in the set, with the 1st and 2nd Class Letter stamps available in two sizes to reflect the Letter and Large Letter postage rates.
Additional 1st Class and 2nd Class stamps showing images of the Madonna and Child are also available.
Barbara Roulston, Head of External Relations for Royal Mail said: “Every year customers and collectors look forward to our Christmas stamps, which have been brightening up the festive season for more than 40 years.
“This year we will print more than 200 million 1st Class Christmas stamps alone, while millions more of these charming images on the higher value stamps will be seen on cards and gifts sent around the globe.”
(BMcC)
The festive stamps, available now, depict a selection of colourful and musical angels, designed by Italian illustrator Marco Ventura.
He created four designs for the stamps in a style suggestive of Renaissance art, each showing an angel playing a musical instrument in a snowy countryside scene. There are six stamps in the set, with the 1st and 2nd Class Letter stamps available in two sizes to reflect the Letter and Large Letter postage rates.
Additional 1st Class and 2nd Class stamps showing images of the Madonna and Child are also available.
Barbara Roulston, Head of External Relations for Royal Mail said: “Every year customers and collectors look forward to our Christmas stamps, which have been brightening up the festive season for more than 40 years.
“This year we will print more than 200 million 1st Class Christmas stamps alone, while millions more of these charming images on the higher value stamps will be seen on cards and gifts sent around the globe.”
(BMcC)
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