MALTA3cDribbling — sideways watermarkImage unavailable
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1982 / Sport
Dribbling — upright watermark
Football World Cup 1982
Denomination3c
Issue date1982-06-11
The story behind the issue
Three football actions occur in sheet stamps and in miniature-sheet stamps with a different watermark orientation.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Sheet stamp
- Designer
- Richard J. Caruana
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 33 × 27 mm
- Perforation
- 13.75 × 13.9
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The contemporary physical study explicitly distinguishes upright watermarks in sheet stamps from sideways watermarks in all three miniature-sheet stamps. Both types are included; repeated formats alone are not counted.
Image & 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.