Stamp showcase for Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit will be featuring on this year’s Christmas stamps from the Royal Mail.
Available from 2nd November, the stamps feature the nation’s favourite animated characters going about their Christmas duties which include carol singing, posting Christmas cards and dressing the Christmas tree. The stamps are packed with the same detail that fans have come to expect from Aardman and Royal Mail’s design team worked closely with Nick Park and Aardman Animations to devise brand new scenes featuring the pair.
Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, said: “It’s been such a wonderful honour and a pleasure to work with Royal Mail and to have my characters, Wallace and Gromit, immortalised on their very own stamps. It was one of the biggest challenges my talented team and I have faced yet - to create memorable Christmas images of the duo - the size of postage stamps. But we knew we’d lick it in the end.”
Philip Parker, Royal Mail Stamps spokesperson, said: “The process of developing these stamps has been a labour of love for all concerned – but I think it has resulted in one of the finest sets of Christmas stamps Royal Mail has ever produced. Nick and his team’s attention to detail is legendary, but their efforts to bring Christmas with Wallace and Gromit to life on stamps is truly extraordinary. Keen-eyed collectors armed with a magnifying glass will see that the envelope seen being posted on the 1st Class stamp features the actual 1st Class stamp.”
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