MALTA6dHuman rights · 6dImage unavailable
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1968 / Heritage
Human rights · 2d
International Human Rights Year
Denomination2d
Issue date1968-05-02
The story behind the issue
Symbolic figures express the pursuit of human rights in a three-value commemorative issue.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Harrison and 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- Philatelic Society of Malta · Summer 1968, pp. 8–9, 14 · contemporary issue programme ↗
- Philatelic Society of Malta · Spring 1969, pp. 14–16 · contemporary new issues and Gandhi report ↗
- MaltaPost historical record · 6d denomination and 2 May 1968 date ↗
Image & attribution
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All 3 basic issued design/value combinations in this group. Postage dues, revenue and postal stationery, unchanged reprints, specialist shades/errors, proof/specimen material and presentation formats excluded.