MALTA5dBlue rock thrush — 5dImage unavailable
1971MALTA2dMaltese centaury — 2dImage unavailable
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1971 / The natural world
Maltese centaury — 2d
Bird and plant of Malta
Denomination2d
Issue date1971-09-18
The story behind the issue
Maltese centaury and the blue rock thrush appear in paired values.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General 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 verified- Guido Lanfranco, The national plant and national bird of Malta, contemporary 1972 abstract ↗
- The national plant and bird of Malta: historical discussion and original stamps, Central Mediterranean Naturalist 3(1) ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Ordinary basic design/value types; excludes postage dues, repeated miniature-sheet or booklet formats, plate numbers, errors and minor varieties.