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2005 / Heritage
Great Siege fresco map — 37c
Old maps of Malta
Denomination37c
Issue date2005-01-19
The story behind the issue
Four historical maps.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Alfred Caruana Ruggier
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- 14 × 13.9 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- 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 2005-01-19 ↗
- Contemporary MaltaPost Bureau announcement, Independent, 19 January 2005 ↗
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.