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2014 / Historical figures
Grandmaster portrait — sheet 1, row 2, column 1
Grandmasters of the Order of Malta, 1530–1798
The story behind the issue
Twenty-eight portraits represent the grandmasters who governed Malta during the Order’s rule.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Not documented
- 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 verifiedPosition identifies a distinct portrait in the complete issued sheets. Individual name transcription is not yet verified.
Research notes: All 28 different €0.26 stamps are included: one sheet of eight and two sheets of ten. Positional captions avoid unverified personal-name mappings. Marginal maps and coats of arms are not stamps.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Grandmasters of the Order of Malta ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 43(3), 30 September 2014 ↗
- SEPAC member product: original complete three-sheet set, visually inspected for layout and distinct portraits ↗
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.