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1983 / Faith & tradition
Adoration of the Magi
Christmas 1983
Denomination20c + 3c
Issue date1983-09-06
The story behind the issue
Book of Hours scenes appear on three stamps bearing 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
- Norbert Attard
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 29 × 47 mm
- Perforation
- 13.6 × 13.8
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verified- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 13(2), pp. 22–24 ↗
- GPO first-day notice, Government Gazette 19 August 1983, p. 2408 ↗
- Marian Stamp Album 7, Book of Hours subjects and denomination mapping; contemporary perforation measurements preferred ↗
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.