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1993 / Sport
Small States Games — upright watermark
Games of the Small States of Europe
Denomination3c
Issue date1993-05-04
The story behind the issue
Four sporting stamps occur in panes and in souvenir sheets with different watermarks.
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 verifiedResearch notes: Farrugia explicitly establishes upright watermark in ordinary panes and sideways in all four souvenir-sheet values, allowing detached stamps to be distinguished.
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.
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