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1973 / Heritage
Maltese lace — 3c postage due
First decimal postage dues
Denomination3c
Issue date1973-04-28
The story behind the issue
Eight decimal denominations use a Maltese lace design to record unpaid or underpaid postage.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage due
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- 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), p. 8: physical block study enumerating all eight values, date and printer imprint ↗
- John De Battista, Malta Postage Due Adhesive Stamps, PSM 38(3), pp. 7–8: lace-design issue and date corroboration ↗
Image & attribution
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All eight original decimal postage-due design/value types issued 28 April 1973. Unchanged reprints, specialist paper/colour/perforation varieties, plate numbers, errors and presentation formats excluded.
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