Canada Post has issued an Eid Stamp in time for Eid al Fitr 2021.
The first ever Canada Post Eid Stamp was released in 2017 :
and this Eid Stamp was released last year in 2020 :
I like this year’s the best.
You can order them now from Canada Post.
Canadian Stamp News provides background on 2021’s Eid Stamp Design :
“Lionel Gadoury, Andrew Conlon and Brad Pyne, of Context Creative,
designed this year’s Eid set,
which includes a 10-stamp booklet plus an official first-day cover (OFDC) measuring 190 millimetres by 112 millimetres.
Ottawa’s Lowe-Martin printed 120,000 booklets (1.2 million stamps in total) plus 7,000 OFDCs,
each franked with an Eid stamp and serviced with a Montréal cancel.
The 28-millimetre-by-38-millimetre Permanent stamp features an evening Eid scene,
centring on a crescent moon framed by an arched window.
Nine five-pointed stars also appear in the sky alongside the moon.
“A highly recognizable symbol of Islam,
it also alludes to the fact that both festivals commence with the sighting of a new moon,”
according to a statement from Canada Post about the crescent moon’s meaning.
“Another striking feature of the stamp design is that the view of the night sky is shown through a window,
the shape of which was inspired by arches often used in mosque architecture.
An overlaid pattern of hexagrams creates an intricately latticed screen – or jali – another form of decoration common in Islamic architecture.”
