If you are a Beatles fan and a stamp collector then you are in for a real treat. According to British media outlets the Royal Mail is issuing a set of new Beatles British postage stamps celebrating the bands iconic album covers. The six stamps will go on sale in next January and will feature the covers of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Abbey Road,” “Revolver,” “Let It Be,” and “With the Beatles.”
A spokesperson with the Royal Mail told the BBC: “The Beatles special stamps promise to be a big hit with fans the world over when they go on sale. Royal Mail is featuring some first-class Beatles album covers to commemorate the U.K. band that stands for all that’s great in popular culture.”
You don’t have to fly to Europe to get your hands on the collectible stamps, according to the Royal Mail you will be able to purchase them on line for a limited time. Which I guess makes sense—after all, if they remain on the market indefinitely they wouldn’t be as valuable.
Personally, I never quite understood why people would turn to stamp collecting as a hobby… until I had my first child. Shortly after my daughter was born a friend of our family bought a set of Chinese New Year collectible stamps celebrating my daughters birth. She was born in the Year of the Monkey so the gift was a set of Year of the Monkey stamps. I immediately put it in her baby book. When my mother found out I was adding the stamps to my daughter’s book she went out and bought a set of collectible state stamps. So now I have the stamps depicting the state of Hawaii and the Monkey stamps neatly framing pictures of her wearing a monkey shirt and monkey hat on our favorite beach in Hawaii. “Real” stamp collectors probably display their rare finds in a more “professional” manner, but I rather like the way my daughter’s stamps turned into decorative framing for her pictures.