New Issues -
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
3 September 2024 - Porridge, vintage BBC Television comedy programme set in a prison (‘porridge’ is slang for serving a term of imprisonment for criminal activities) - 8 stamps (4 se-tenant pairs, total cost £13.40p) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10:stamps with attached labels (sold for £17.30). Designed by Steers McGiven Eves and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- *.
Meanwhile, anyone interested in a philatelic bowl of real porridge may recall this stamp from An Post which was issued on 16 July 2015 as part of a set of 4 with an accompanying miniature sheet. The set was titled - “Ireland - the Food island” -
Porridge? Looks like a bowl of something the cat threw up.
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