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1969 / Heritage
Mahatma Gandhi and spinning wheel
Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth
Denomination1/6
Issue date1969-03-24
The story behind the issue
A single stamp combines Gandhi’s portrait with a spinning wheel.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé en Zonen
- Printing process
- Photogravure
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 12 × 12½
- Watermark
- Multiple Maltese Crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Brown and gold
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
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