The money has been raised by people bidding for the first sheet of "Smilers" to be printed and by purchases of limited edition versions.
"Smilers" were first introduced in 2000 and in 2003 mail bosses introduced an online version allowing people to upload images.
A special set of 'smiler' stamps have been launched by the Royal Mail this week paying tribute to Wales' glorious landscapes.
Each smiler stamp, in both English and Welsh, is accompanied by a First Class Welsh Dragon stamp.
Whether the biter is a Hollywood
Smiler or Sociable Biters, the key is the shape, size and dimensions of the teethmarks left behind.
Midlanders can now create their own personalised Christmas Smilers with first and second class stamps, with a photograph of their choice right alongside the stamp.
A sheet of 20 personalised Christmas Smilers stamps costs pounds 14.95 for first class and pounds 9.95 for second class.
A complex compression of a complex relationship, Nari Ward's Happy
Smilers: Duty-Free Shopping, 1996, examined not only what it means for a New Yorker to visit the West Indies but what it means for a West Indian to live in New York.
Bamforth - which publishes the cheeky cartoon cards that are a familiar sight on seafronts across the UK - applied to have 10 of its pictures printed as a customised "
Smilers" sheet by the Royal Mail.