MALTA35cEarth, air, fire and water · FilflaImage unavailable
1986MALTA8cPainted lady, red admiral and common blue butterfliesImage unavailable
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1986 / The natural world
Painted lady, red admiral and common blue butterflies
Europa 1986 · nature and the environment
Denomination8c
Issue date1986-04-03
The story behind the issue
Europa 1986 · nature and the environment, issued as 2 basic design/value types.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Maurice Tanti Burlò
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14 × 13.9
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe contemporary report supports this issue identity; independent specimen and full technical cross-checks remain open.
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Original basic design/value types; documented major paper, watermark and perforation alternatives are separately identified. Unchanged reprints, errors and plate/pane positions are excluded.