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1980 / Faith & tradition
Conception
Christmas 1980
Denomination6c + 1c
Issue date1980-10-07
The story behind the issue
Anton Inglott’s triptych supplies the Christmas designs; each stamp includes a separate charitable premium.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Charity premium (additional to postage)
- 1c
- Designer
- Raymond Pitre
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 20.5 × 47.15 mm
- Perforation
- 13.4 × 13.4
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The official notice and contemporary issue report establish 7 October; a later illustration caption gives 17 October in error.
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 10(3), pp. 18–19 ↗
- GPO notice 539, Government Gazette 23 September 1980, first day explicitly 7 October ↗
Image & attribution
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