AN INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE OF MALTESE STAMPS POSTAGE SINCE 1860 · MALTA & GOZO
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2012-08-10 / Maritime history

Operation Pedestal: seventieth anniversary

Eighty-eight vessel portraits commemorate the operation that brought the Santa Marija convoy to Malta.

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Ordinary basic design/value types and documented major technical changes. Excludes postage dues, unchanged reprints, repeated packaging, personalised tabs, sheet-margin overprints, replica products, errors and minor varieties.

Research notes: All 88 designs are included; the eleven eight-stamp sheets and their non-postal labels are not counted as additional stamps. Vessel names come from the contemporary enumeration; original inscription and spelling audit remains partial.

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