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1974MALTA50cOld and new UPU buildingsImage unavailable
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1974 / Railways & transport
Old and new UPU buildings
Centenary of the Universal Postal Union
Denomination50c
Issue date1974-09-20
The story behind the issue
Heinrich von Stephan’s portrait accompanies contrasts between earlier and modern postal transport and buildings.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- George Ellul Sullivan and Sandra Ellul Sullivan
- 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, December 1974, p. 328 ↗
- PSM magazine 4(2), foreword reporting the issue and designers ↗
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.