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Australia

Christmas 2021

1 November 2021

Australia Post issued its annual Christmas stamp issue celebrating the Christmas holiday, highlighting both traditional and secular themes.

The three Secular stamps reference the custom of celebrating Christmas with sugary gingerbread delicacies. Gingerbread is a sweet baked cake or biscuit flavoured with ginger and other spices. It has a very long history, with various recipes recorded in Europe for more than a millennium.

The two Religious Christmas stamps feature artworks made from terracotta clay and glazed in a technique first introduced in Renaissance Italy by the Florentine della Robbia family of artists.