Description: This official Royal Mail Presentation Pack (designated as Pack Number 245) commemorates the 25th anniversary of the investiture of HRH The Prince of Wales (King Charles III). The card carrier safely houses a se-tenant horizontal strip of five unmounted mint stamps. Each stamp features a distinct, panoramic landscape watercolor painting depicting rolling hills, historic castles, and rustic countryside scenes spanning across the United Kingdom. The top of the protective presentation folder features the Prince of Wales's heraldic feathers emblem embossed in red, flanked by the anniversary years "1969" and "1994," above the elegant title typography.
Circa: 1994
Notes:
This philatelic issue is highly unusual because the artwork featured on the stamps was actually painted by the subject himself, drawing directly from the Prince's personal collection of watercolor landscape diaries. The issue pays tribute to his public life and artistic passions, utilizing the small monochrome silhouette silhouette profile of Queen Elizabeth II in the upper right corners to fulfill formal postal design requirements while maximizing the canvas area for the landscape artwork.