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2014 / Culture & books
Drum player
Europa 2014: national musical instruments
Denomination€2.19
Issue date2014-05-09
The story behind the issue
Bagpipe and drum players are reproduced from a painting by Girolamo Gianni.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- MaltaPost, after Girolamo Gianni
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 13.6 × 13.7 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The official prose omits the second value; an inspected original cover confirms €2.19. The reported 47.15 × 20.5 mm measurements have ambiguous axis order against the vertical stamps; dimensions are omitted.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Europa national musical instruments ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 43(3), 9 May 2014 ↗
- Original posted cover bearing both Europa 2014 stamps, visually inspected for printed denominations and instruments ↗
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.