MALTA1c3Girolamo CassarImage unavailable
1974MALTA3cGiuseppe BarthImage unavailable
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1974 / Culture & books
Giuseppe Barth
Prominent Maltese personalities
Denomination3c
Issue date1974-01-12
The story behind the issue
Five portraits recognise Maltese achievement in architecture, medicine, music, botany and sculpture.
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 — 1974, PSM 5(1), pp. 10–12 ↗
- South African Philatelist, March 1974, new-issue report ↗
- Maltese Medical History as Seen Through Postage Stamps, 1998 ↗
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.