I am now officially on my Christmas break and I'll be writing about Christmas-themed philatelic materials as Christmas approaches.
For Christmas 1993, the Royal Mail issue a set of se-tenant strips of five stamps that featured Stained Glass windows that depict scenes from the Nativity. The stamps came in full sheets of 100. They were made available to the public on 10 November 1993. The cancellation depicts the Madonna and Child.
Here is the transcription of the text found on the philatelic insert:
For Christmas 1993, the Royal Mail issue a set of se-tenant strips of five stamps that featured Stained Glass windows that depict scenes from the Nativity. The stamps came in full sheets of 100. They were made available to the public on 10 November 1993. The cancellation depicts the Madonna and Child.
Here is the transcription of the text found on the philatelic insert:
Stained glass windows have their own transcendental beauty. Our churches and cathedrals house a rich legacy of stained glass and a distinctive contribution to that tradition was made in the present century by the artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The exceptional quality of their work, a marriage of impeccable craftsmanship and artistic vision, yielded “a rich heritage for the world, set alight by the daily miracle of the dawn.” There could be no more fitting way of celebrating Christmas than by using characteristic details of their designs, from churches around the country, to illustrate the story of the Nativity.
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