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2005 / Heritage
Street sprinkler cart — 66c
Equines in the Maltese environment
Denomination66c
Issue date2005-08-19
The story behind the issue
Four issued designs; a fifth submitted artwork was not issued.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Damian Borg Nicolas
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedFirst day, denomination and basic issue membership are sourced. Independent specimen checks of technical attributes remain open.
- Contemporary postal diary, PSM 34(3), entry 2005-08-19 ↗
- Contemporary Bureau announcement, Times of Malta, 12 August 2005; values and subjects ↗
- Gozo Philatelic Society Newsletter 59, original artist proofs and 19 August 2005 issue date ↗
Image & attribution
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Ordinary basic design/value types and documented major technical changes. Includes distinct miniature-sheet stamps; excludes unchanged sheet/booklet presentation, personalised labels, postal stationery, replicas, errors, plate states and minor varieties. Postage dues have a separate audit.