World Cup 1990 — sideways watermark

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Department of Posts

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

Maltese pound / lira · decimal

Stamp format

Miniature-sheet stamp

Designer

Tony Bugeja

Printer

Printex Limited, Malta

Printing process

Lithography

Stamp dimensions

33 × 27 mm

Perforation

13.8 × 13.8

Watermark

Maltese crosses, sideways

Paper

Chalk surfaced

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Research notes: The contemporary physical study explicitly distinguishes upright watermarks in pane stamps from sideways watermarks in all three souvenir-sheet stamps.

• Joseph Farrugia, contemporary issue study / postal diary, PSM 21(1), pp. 42–44 ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

Ordinary basic design/value types plus explicitly documented major watermark differences. Excludes postage dues (separately researched), unchanged reprints, repeated formats, plate/pane numbers, errors and minor varieties.