MALTA6cExhibited Maltese costume · 6cImage unavailable
1998MALTA16cCostume in a painting by Antoine de Favray · 16cImage unavailable
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1998 / Culture & books
Costume in a painting by Antoine de Favray · 16c
Treasures of Malta · Maltese costumes
Denomination16c
Issue date1998-02-26
The story behind the issue
Treasures of Malta · Maltese costumes: 4 basic design/value types.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta postal administration
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Frank Ancilleri
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14 × 13.9
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, upright
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedIssue identity and stated fields are sourced. Independent original-specimen and remaining technical checks are still open.
- Farrugia, 1998 issue studies, PSM 31(2), pp. 22–31 ↗
- Anthony Fenech, contemporary 1998 postal diary, PSM 29(1) ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Basic ordinary postage types plus separately documented major watermark, paper, perforation or denomination differences. Excludes unchanged reprints, errors, marginal positions and repeated presentation formats.