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2004 / Faith & tradition
Papier-mâché Baby Jesus from Lecce
Christmas 2004
Denomination7c
Issue date2004-11-10
The story behind the issue
Four Christmas stamps were printed in Malta on watermarked paper.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Richard J. Caruana
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verified- Anthony Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 34(1), 10 November 2004 ↗
- Contemporary MaltaPost issue announcement, Times of Malta, 5 November 2004: value-specific Baby Jesus effigies ↗
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.