The Manx cat is known the world over and our illuminating stamp issue text (available with the Presentation Pack and First Day Cover)is a 'Did you Know?'of facts...

For example: "Their hunting instincts were demonstrated at a World Mousing Championship at a 1964 Calgary cat show. A Manx cat was the fastest to follow a mouse’s scent through a glass maze. Little wonder then, that a Manx cat was a mouser in the House of Lords in the early 1940s and another, the black ‘Peta’, in Britain’s Home Office in the 1960s.

A gift from the Island in 1964, ‘Peta’ invaded 10 Downing Street and roughed-up the resident Siamese owned by Prime Minister Harold Wilson. There were no repercussions; however, as The Home Office once ruled that she enjoyed ‘diplomatic status.’"

Our stamp images are gleaned from period postcards from an era when holidaymaking was the Island's main industry.