MALTA€1.87Mattia Preti self-portraitImage unavailable
2013MALTA€0.97Baptism of ChristImage unavailable
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2013 / Art & artists
Baptism of Christ
Mattia Preti: four-hundredth birth anniversary
Denomination€0.97
Issue date2013-02-23
The story behind the issue
Two paintings commemorate the artist’s birth.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- Edward D. Pirotta
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 35 × 35 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 14.0 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verified- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Mattia Preti anniversary ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 42(3), 23 February 2013, pp.24–25: explicit value/size mappings ↗
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.