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1965MALTA4dKnights of MaltaImage unavailable
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1965 / Heritage
Knights of Malta
History of Malta · original nineteen definitives
Denomination4d
Issue date1965-01-07
The story behind the issue
Cremona interprets successive periods and institutions of Maltese history. The official issue notice lists nineteen values; the 5d and 10d were added in 1970.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons
- Printing process
- Photogravure
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Maltese Crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- Malta Government Gazette · 22 December 1964, Notice 686, p. 3420 · nineteen definitive values ↗
- Carmel G. Bonavia · Annus Paulinus, JMPS 37(3), pp. 25–27 ↗
- Lois L. Corbin · Fine Arts on Malta Stamps, Part III, JMPS 10(2), pp. 5–8 ↗
- M. E. Jetten, The £1 stamps of Malta, PSM magazine 1(3), autumn 1967, printed p.18 (full PDF p.20) ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
All 19 basic issued design/value combinations in this group. Specialist shades, printing errors, proof/specimen material and presentation formats excluded.
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