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1983 / Maritime history
Maltese ships II — 2c
Maltese ships II
Denomination2c
Issue date1983-11-17
The story behind the issue
The second ships issue continues the series in four denominations.
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
- 13.8 × 13.6
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The summary table gives 7 November, but the diary and visually inspected first-day hand-postmark both show 17 NOV 83. Value-specific vessel names remain unverified.
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 13(2), pp. 25–26 ↗
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 13(1), p. 23; illustrated first-day hand-postmark ↗
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