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1994 / Faith & tradition
Christmas — 20c
Christmas 1994
Denomination20c + 3c
Issue date1994-10-26
The story behind the issue
A five-cent stamp accompanies three Christmas stamps with charitable premiums.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Department of Posts
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Charity premium (additional to postage)
- 3c
- Designer
- Harry Borg
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 31 × 44 mm
- Perforation
- 14 × 13.9
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The contemporary table explicitly lists 5c without a premium; only the other three stamps carry charitable additions.
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary issue study / postal diary, PSM 25(1-2-3), pp. 29–30 ↗
- Joseph Farrugia, contemporary issue study / postal diary, PSM 24(1), diary, 26 October 1994 ↗
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.