Overview
- Royal Mail issued a Facebook alert telling customers, “You should order your Christmas stamps before it’s too late.”
- The five designs depict Mary and Joseph, Mary with the baby Jesus, the three wise men, shepherds, and an angel.
- Items on sale via Royal Mail’s website include stamp sets, books, full sheets and souvenirs, with a 4 x 2nd book priced at £3.48 and a 50 x £3.40 sheet at £170.
- Royal Mail says the illustrations celebrate surface and texture, evoking inlaid marble, enamelling, marquetry and collage.
- The issue cites input from Professor Ben Quash of King’s College London and Professor Andrew Davison of the University of Oxford, with praise from Royal Mail’s David Gold and designer Paula Doherty.