MALTA5cWorld Cup 1990 — upright watermarkImage unavailable
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1990 / Sport
World Cup 1990 — upright watermark
Football World Cup 1990
Denomination10c
Issue date1990-06-08
The story behind the issue
Football designs occur in ordinary panes and souvenir sheets with different watermark directions.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Department of Posts
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- 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, upright
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The contemporary physical study explicitly distinguishes upright watermarks in pane stamps from sideways watermarks in all three souvenir-sheet stamps.
Image & attribution
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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.