Welsh stamps celebrate St David
The Royal Mail is to celebrate Wales with a miniature sheet on 26 February, the fourth in a series which depicts the four main regions of the United Kingdom.
The Royal Mail is to celebrate Wales with a miniature sheet on 26 February, the fourth in a series which depicts the four main regions of the United Kingdom.
Four stamps stand proud on the Celebrating Wales Miniature Sheet and three have been specially created for the issue, including two long-format stamps featuring the country’s patron saint and a national landmark.
A new first class stamp featuring the Welsh flag is positioned top left on the sheet, next to artist Clair Melinsky’s stunning illustration of St David’s on an 81p long-format stamp.
Beneath them in the bottom left sits the second long-format stamp, displaying a floodlit National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff Bay, and the sheet is completed by the present Welsh first class definitive of the Welsh Dragon.
Celebrating Wales is issued a week before the Saints Day to enable customers to send St David’s cards in time for the day.
