MALTA2dDante Alighieri · 2dImage unavailable
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1965 / Historical figures
Dante Alighieri · 6d
Dante Alighieri · seventh birth centenary
Denomination6d
Issue date1965-07-07
The story behind the issue
Three values reproduce a portrait of Dante after Raphael.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- Lois L. Corbin · Fine Arts on Malta Stamps, Part IV, JMPS 10(3), pp. 15–16, 21 ↗
- Dante on Stamps · original Malta 1965 stamp set ↗
- Stamps Plus · original Dante, Churchill and Valletta complete first-day covers illustrated ↗
Image & attribution
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All 3 basic issued design/value combinations in this group. Specialist shades, printing errors, proof/specimen material and presentation formats excluded.