MALTA3cBarn owlImage unavailable
1981MALTA23cStorm petrelImage unavailable
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1981 / The natural world
Storm petrel
Birds 1981
Denomination23c
Issue date1981-01-20
The story behind the issue
Four birds are represented in the first commemorative issue of 1981.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Maurice Tanti Burlo
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 26.43 × 35.016 mm
- Perforation
- 13.4 × 13.5
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedImage & attribution
Image permission not established
Basic design/value types and explicitly documented major watermark differences; excludes unchanged reprints, plate/pane numbers, errors and repeated formats.