Small States Games — upright watermark

Games of the Small States of Europe

Denomination35c

Issue date1993-05-04

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The story behind the issue

Four sporting stamps occur in panes and in souvenir sheets with different watermarks.

Your notes

Technical details

Issuing authority: Malta Department of Posts
Postal purpose: Postage
Currency: Maltese pound / lira · decimal
Stamp format: Sheet stamp
Designer: Richard J. Caruana
Printer: Printex Limited, Malta
Printing process: Lithography
Stamp dimensions: 38 × 20 mm
Perforation: 13.6 × 14
Watermark: Maltese crosses, upright
Paper: Chalk surfaced
Colour: Not documented
Quantity: Not documented

Sources & verification

Partially verified

Research notes: Farrugia explicitly establishes upright watermark in ordinary panes and sideways in all four souvenir-sheet values, allowing detached stamps to be distinguished.

Joseph Farrugia, contemporary issue study / postal diary, PSM 24(1), pp. 31–32 ↗

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.