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Christmas 2021 Sheetlet of 100 Stamps - Gingerbread tree
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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 tree
Like several other Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas tree, the custom of making decorated gingerbread houses originated in Germany, in the early 19th century. This was possibly a result of the popular success of the Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”, where two lost children were enticed into a house made of gingerbread and topped with sweets.
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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