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1973 / Faith & tradition
Madonna and Child
Christmas 1973
Denomination3c + 1c
Issue date1973-11-10
The story behind the issue
Three Christmas values carry child-welfare premiums and also occur in a miniature sheet.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Charity premium (additional to postage)
- 1c
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Printex Ltd., Malta
- 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- Joe Farrugia, Plate and Imprint Blocks — 1973, PSM 5(2), pp. 7–9 ↗
- Joseph C. Camilleri, Chev. Emvin Cremona’s Christmas Stamp Designs ↗
Image & attribution
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Ordinary basic design/value types; excludes postage dues, repeated miniature-sheet or booklet formats, plate numbers, errors and minor varieties.