MALTA€0.26Mechanical Nativity crib — €0.26Image unavailable
2013MALTA€1.00Mechanical Nativity crib — miniature-sheet design 2Image unavailable
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2013 / Faith & tradition
Mechanical Nativity crib — miniature-sheet design 2
Christmas 2013
Denomination€1.00
Issue date2013-11-18
The story behind the issue
Three pane stamps and two larger miniature-sheet stamps depict the mechanical crib at the Jesus of Nazareth Institute.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- MaltaPost, in-house
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 13.6 × 14.0 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The two €1.00 stamps are different, larger designs. Sources report 20 × 76 mm for each miniature-sheet stamp and 20 × 38 mm for each pane stamp; axis order is ambiguous against the sheet measurements, so stamp dimensions are omitted pending visual measurement.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Christmas 2013 ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 43(1), 18 November 2013, pp.40–41 ↗
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.