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1980 / Sport
Chess pieces and bastions
Chess Olympiad
Denomination30c
Issue date1980-11-20
The story behind the issue
Chess pieces, fortifications and the conference centre mark the Olympiad in Malta.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Harry Borg
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 20 × 38 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 13.5
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
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Basic design/value types and explicitly documented major watermark differences; excludes unchanged reprints, plate/pane numbers, errors and repeated formats.