MALTA2dTurkish encampment and Fort Saint MichaelImage unavailable
1965MALTA6dGreat Siege commemoration · 6dImage unavailable
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1965 / Heritage
Great Siege commemoration · 6d
Great Siege · four hundredth anniversary
Denomination6d
Issue date1965-09-01
The story behind the issue
Seven values combine siege scenes, trophies, an allegory and a commemorative medal.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- 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 ↗
- Philatelic Society of Malta newsletter 1(1), Spring 1967, pp. 9–10 · contemporary full denomination lists ↗
- Carmel G. Bonavia · Annus Paulinus, JMPS 37(3), pp. 25–27 ↗
Image & attribution
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All 7 basic issued design/value combinations in this group. Specialist shades, printing errors, proof/specimen material and presentation formats excluded.