MALTA1c3World Food Programme: tenth anniversaryImage unavailable
1973MALTA7c5World Health Organization: twenty-fifth anniversaryImage unavailable
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1973 / Culture & books
World Health Organization: twenty-fifth anniversary
International anniversaries
Denomination7c5
Issue date1973-10-06
The story behind the issue
Three international anniversaries connect food assistance, public health and human rights.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- 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), pp. 7–9 ↗
- Maltese Medical History as Seen Through Postage Stamps, 1998 ↗
- GPO announcement of the three commemorative subjects, Gazette 27 February 1973, p. 645 ↗
- Max Mangion, Maltese Stamps — collector summary of GPO bulletins ↗
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.