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1982 / Maritime history
Tartana
Maltese ships I
Denomination8c
Issue date1982-11-13
The story behind the issue
Four historic vessel types begin the Maltese ships series.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Norbert Attard
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 47 × 29 mm
- Perforation
- 13.85 × 13.6
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
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Basic design/value types and explicitly documented major watermark differences; excludes unchanged reprints, plate/pane numbers, errors and repeated formats.