MALTA€4.57Red Cross anniversaryImage unavailable
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2013 / Society & public life
Red Cross anniversary
International Red Cross: hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary
Denomination€4.57
Issue date2013-10-29
The story behind the issue
A miniature-sheet stamp commemorates the founding of the Red Cross.
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
- 48 × 39.5 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 14.0 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: Henry Dunant is portrayed in the sheet background; the stamp title does not attribute that surrounding portrait to the stamp itself.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — International Red Cross anniversary ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 43(1), 29 October 2013 ↗
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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