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Moths and butterflies
Denomination6c
Issue date2002-06-26
The story behind the issue
Sixteen different moth and butterfly 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
- Maurice Tanti Burlo
- Printer
- Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Germany
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedPosition identifies a distinct design in the complete four-by-four sheet. Exact species transcription remains unverified.
- Anthony Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 31(3), 26 June 2002 ↗
- Original complete Moths/Butterflies and Seashells sheets, visually inspected specimen photograph, four-by-four design positions ↗
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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