Royal Mail feature a Maine Coon cat on a stamp

 

Royal Mail feature a Maine Coon cat and other breeds
Royal Mail feature a Maine Coon cat and other breeds. Image: Royal Mail

For international readers, the UK's Royal Mail is the country's postal service.  They have been in existence since 1516 believe it or not! Amazing. They have the royal warrant. They have introduced some new stamps featuring purebred cats including the Maine Coon and: Bengal, Siamese, British Shorthair, a random-bred tabby cat, a ginger tabby cat and a black-and-white random bred cat as well. A nice selection. I just noticed that there's actually a stamp featuring a tabby-and-white random-bred cat as well. In all there are 8 different stamps.

As you can see the Maine Coon is a grey tabby and white; probably the best coat for this breed whose origins are in the barns of Maine, USA hundreds of years ago.

You can buy the stamps as a collector item in a range of formats including as sheets of both first and second class stamps in a presentation pack. You can also buy postcards with the stamps on them with prices ranging from £12.96 for a presentation pack to £15.15 for a souvenir cover.

The stamps have been designed to celebrate the domestic cat. Royal Mail said that they worked with author an animal expert, Tamsin Pickeral, the author of The Grace of the Cat; An Illustrated History.

The photographs are good and the quality of the stamps I think is excellent.

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