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1983 / Railways & transport
Beyer Peacock locomotive and Rabat
Malta Railway centenary
Denomination27c
Issue date1983-01-21
The story behind the issue
Locomotives and landmarks recall the railway’s opening a century earlier.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Richard J. Caruana
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 47 × 29 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 13.6
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- 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.