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2001 / The natural world
House martin and swallow
Birds of Malta
Denomination6c
Issue date2001-06-22
The story behind the issue
Sixteen different bird designs share the six-cent denomination.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Sheetlet stamp
- Designer
- Andrew Micallef
- Printer
- Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Germany
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Unwatermarked
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verified- Anthony Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 30(2), 22 June 2001 ↗
- Original complete Birds of Malta sheet, specimen visually inspected; independent bird subject identification ↗
Image & attribution
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Ordinary basic design/value types and explicitly documented major technical changes, including distinct miniature-sheet stamps and self-adhesive booklet types. Excludes postage dues (separate audit), unchanged reprints, tabs, repeated formats, plate states and minor varieties.
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