Trams — 50c

Technical details

Issuing authority

MaltaPost plc

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

Maltese pound / lira · decimal

Designer

Debbie Caruana Dingli

Printer

Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Germany

Printing process

Offset lithography

Stamp dimensions

43 × 25.5 mm

Perforation

Not documented

Watermark

Not documented

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Research notes: The diary records premature distribution of 19c/75c pairs through foreign agents on 19 March, stopped shortly afterwards. No examples used before the official first day were known. Official release remains 14 July; prematurely distributed copies are not distinct types.

• Anthony Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 33(2), 14 July 2004 ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

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.