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Christmas 2021 Sheetlet of 100 Stamps - Gingerbread gift
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Our annual Christmas stamp issue celebrates the Christmas holiday, highlighting both traditional and secular themes.
This year’s two traditional Christmas stamps present religious artworks featuring the Madonna and Child. The artworks were made from terracotta clay and glazed in a technique first introduced in Renaissance Italy by the Florentine della Robbia family of artists.
The other three stamps in this issue are secular in theme, highlighting the custom of celebrating Christmas with sugary gingerbread treats – a tradition with a very long history, with various recipes recorded in Europe for more than a millennium.Stamps in this issue
65c Gingerbread gift
Gingerbread was particularly popular in France, the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and Germany, where in the 15th century a guild controlled its production. In the 16th century, the retinue of Queen Elizabeth I of England included a royal gingerbread maker. The Queen would hold banquets, where the easily moulded gingerbread was playfully formed into figures representing people at her court. During the Elizabethan era, gingerbread men were also sometimes presented as love tokens. This stamp features gingerbread baked in the shape of a Christmas gift.
Technical specifications
- Issue date
- 1 November 2021 *
- Issue withdrawal date
- 31 December 2021
- Denomination
- 65c x 3, $2.40 x 2
- Stamp & product design (secular)
- Sonia Young, Australia Post Design Studio
- Stamp & product design (religious)
- Jo Muré, Australia Post Design Studio
- Paper: gummed
- Tullis Russell Red Phos
- Paper: self-adhesive
- Arconvert Securpost MC90
- Paper: s/a sheetlet of 10
- Raflatac Cast
- Printer: secular
- Egotrade
- Printer: religious
- RA Printing
- Printer: s/a sheetlet of 10
- Rapid Labels
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Printing process: s/a sheetlet of 10
- Inkjet 1200 dpi
- Stamp size (mm)
- 26 x 37.5
- Minisheet size (mm)
- 135 x 80
- Sheetlet size (mm)
- 120 x 192
- Perforations
- 14.6 x 13.86
- Sheet layout
- Module of 50 (Cold foil – s/a sheet)
- FDI Postmark
- Merrylands NSW 2160
- FDI withdrawal date
- 30 November 2021
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