MALTA€0.26Police boat — first designImage unavailable
2014MALTA€1.55HMS LondonImage unavailable
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2014 / Maritime history
HMS London
Maritime Malta II: commemorations
Denomination€1.55
Issue date2014-03-18
The story behind the issue
Four stamps commemorate the end of the military facilities agreement and the Malta Police Force anniversary.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Cedric Galea Pirotta
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 40 × 33 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 14.0 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The original complete set was visually inspected on the SEPAC member product page: both police launches are €0.26 and both naval vessels are €1.55. This confirms the official announcement. The contemporary diary reverses those denominations and its mapping is rejected. Police-location captions remain neutral pending precise inscription verification.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Maritime Malta II ↗
- Joseph Fenech, contemporary postal diary, PSM 43(3), 18 March 2014, p.16 ↗
- SEPAC member product: original complete four-stamp set, visually inspected for printed values and vessel types ↗
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.