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1981MALTA8cFesta horse raceImage unavailable
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1981 / Culture & books
Festa horse race
Europa 1981
Denomination8c
Issue date1981-04-28
The story behind the issue
Two traditional festivities illustrate the Europa theme.
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
- 27 × 33 mm
- Perforation
- 14 × 13.75
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: Farrugia reports an impression of two kinds of paper after examining panes, without characterising or enumerating them. Additional paper types remain unresolved and are not invented here.
Image & 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.