MALTA1½dCospicua altarpiece · Immaculate Conception · EmeraldImage unavailable
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1954 / Faith & tradition
Cospicua altarpiece · Immaculate Conception · Bright blue
Immaculate Conception · dogma centenary
Denomination3d
Issue date1954-09-08
The story behind the issue
Three values reproduce the principal altarpiece of the collegiate parish church at Cospicua.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons
- Printing process
- Photogravure
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14.6 × 13.7 (single comb; reported measurement)
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Chalk-surfaced paper
- Colour
- Bright blue
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedGrech’s specimen-based Marian Stamp Album supplement 2, PDF p. 4, explicitly describes all three 1954 Marian stamps as chalk-surfaced with 14.6 × 13.7 single-comb perforation. These reported measurements await independent physical confirmation; they do not establish a second printing or replace this stamp’s date.
- Anthony Fenech · Religion on Malta Stamps, Part II, JMPS 9(2), p. 9 ↗
- The Canadian Philatelist · September–October 1964, pp. 219 and 221 ↗
- Malta Museums Department · Annual Report 1954–55, p. 172 · complete commemorative set received ↗
- Anthony Grech, Marian Stamp Album, supplement 2 (2003), PDF p. 4: 1954 Marian issue paper and perforation ↗
Image & attribution
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All 3 basic issued design/value/colour combinations in this commemorative group. Excludes specimens, proofs, flaws and specialist printing varieties.