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1984 / Faith & tradition
Epiphany
Christmas 1984
Denomination8c + 2c
Issue date1984-10-05
The story behind the issue
Three painted religious scenes illustrate Christmas, each with a separate charitable premium.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Charity premium (additional to postage)
- 2c
- Designer
- Luciano Micallef
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 48 × 39.5 mm
- Perforation
- 14 × 14
- 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 14(2), pp. 26–27 ↗
- Marian Stamp Album 7, paintings and denomination mapping ↗
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.