MALTA7cSelf-adhesive flowers booklet stamp — 7cImage unavailable
2003MALTA16cSelf-adhesive flowers booklet stamp — 16cImage unavailable
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2003 / The natural world
Self-adhesive flowers booklet stamp — 16c
Self-adhesive flowers booklet stamps
Denomination16c
Issue date2003-10-22
The story behind the issue
Two self-adhesive denominations were introduced in small stamp booklets.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Stamp format
- Booklet stamp
- Designer
- Maurice Tanti Burlo
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- 23 × 23 mm
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Gum
- Self-adhesive
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The diary specifies 12×7c and 6×16c self-adhesive booklets and a shared first-day handstamp; the contemporary announcement confirms the artist. Two stamp types are counted, not every repeated copy. Printer and flower identification await independent support. A reported 2004 booklet reprint is not added without a documented diagnostic stamp difference.
- Anthony Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 32(3), 22 October 2003 ↗
- Contemporary MaltaPost launch announcement, Times of Malta, 16 October 2003: two values and artist ↗
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.