AN INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE OF MALTESE STAMPS POSTAGE SINCE 1860 · MALTA & GOZO
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2012 / Maritime history

HMS Cairo

Operation Pedestal: seventieth anniversary

Denomination€0.26
Issue date2012-08-10
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The story behind the issue

Eighty-eight vessel portraits commemorate the operation that brought the Santa Marija convoy to Malta.

Technical details

Issuing authority
MaltaPost plc
Postal purpose
Postage
Currency
EUR
Designer
Cedric Galea Pirotta
Printer
Printex Limited, Malta
Printing process
Offset lithography
Stamp dimensions
44 × 31 mm
Perforation
13.9 × 14.0 (comb)
Watermark
Maltese crosses
Paper
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Quantity
Not documented

Sources & verification

Partially verified

Research notes: All 88 designs are included; the eleven eight-stamp sheets and their non-postal labels are not counted as additional stamps. Vessel names come from the contemporary enumeration; original inscription and spelling audit remains partial.

Image & attribution

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Ordinary basic design/value types and documented major technical changes. Excludes postage dues, unchanged reprints, repeated packaging, personalised tabs, sheet-margin overprints, replica products, errors and minor varieties.

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