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Valletta by night
Elton John commemorative sheet
DenominationLm1.50
Issue date2003-07-01
The story behind the issue
A scenic postage stamp accompanies four portraits of Elton John in the sheet’s surrounding design.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- J. P. Advertising Limited
- 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 verifiedResearch notes: Only the perforated Lm1.50 Valletta stamp is postage; four singer images in the surrounding sheet are not counted as stamps. The diary identifies the scenic design as reused from the 2002 label issue.
Image & attribution
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