MALTA2c + 1cChildren looking at a cribImage unavailable
1981MALTA20c + 3cBoy delivering the Nativity sermonImage unavailable
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1981 / Faith & tradition
Boy delivering the Nativity sermon
Christmas 1981
Denomination20c + 3c
Issue date1981-11-18
The story behind the issue
Maltese Christmas customs are depicted with separate charitable premiums.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Charity premium (additional to postage)
- 3c
- Designer
- Tony Bugeja
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 27 × 33 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 13.7
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedImage & attribution
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Basic design/value types and explicitly documented major watermark differences; excludes unchanged reprints, plate/pane numbers, errors and repeated formats.