MALTA€0.26The Flight into EgyptImage unavailable
2015MALTA€0.59The Nativity of the LordImage unavailable
Image permission not established
2015 / Faith & tradition
The Nativity of the Lord
Christmas — Dürer’s Life of the Virgin
Denomination€0.59
Issue date2015-11-14
The story behind the issue
Prints held at the Mdina Cathedral Museum.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Artist / illustrator
- Albrecht Dürer
- Designer
- MaltaPost
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 14 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedFirst day, face value and basic issue membership are sourced. Independent specialist checks of paper, gum, perforation and watermark varieties remain open.
- MaltaPost contemporary issue announcement ↗
- John V. De Battista, contemporary postal diary, PSM 45(1) ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Ordinary basic design/value types and documented major physical changes. Repeated miniature-sheet or booklet copies, personalised non-postal labels, sheet surrounds, replicas, errors and minor varieties are excluded. Postage dues are separately audited.