MALTA5dUnited Nations anniversary · 5dImage unavailable
1970MALTA2dUnited Nations anniversary · 2dImage unavailable
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1970 / Heritage
United Nations anniversary · 2d
United Nations · twenty-fifth anniversary
Denomination2d
Issue date1970
The story behind the issue
Three values share a design for the United Nations’ twenty-fifth anniversary.
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
Partially verifiedThe issue and all three values are confirmed in 1970. A contemporary Crown Agents advertisement gives 24 October; MaltaPost’s historical record displays 30 September. Exact first day awaits an original first-day cover or postal notice.
- Crown Agents Stamp Bureau · Norsk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift 1970/8, p. 162 · UN25 release advertisement ↗
- MaltaPost historical record · UN25 2d · exact-day conflict retained in review ↗
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.