MALTA35cKingfisher · SimarImage unavailable
1999MALTA16cLittle ringed plover · GħadiraImage unavailable
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1999 / The natural world
Little ringed plover · Għadira
Europa 1999 · nature reserves
Denomination16c
Issue date1999-04-06
The story behind the issue
Europa 1999 · nature reserves: 2 basic design/value types.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Richard J. Caruana
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- 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.
- Anthony Fenech, contemporary 1999 postal diary, PSM 29(2), pp. 31–38 ↗
- MaltaPost Philatelic Bureau advertisement with original stamp illustrations, PSM 28(1), back cover ↗
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.