MALTA€1.21Penny Black stamp-on-stampImage unavailable
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2015 / Heritage
Penny Black stamp-on-stamp
One hundred and seventy-five years of the postage stamp
Denomination€1.21
Issue date2015-05-02
The story behind the issue
The miniature sheet contains three explicitly identical stamps: one basic type, not three.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- MaltaPost
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 41 × 30.5 mm
- Perforation
- 13.7 × 13.8 (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 44(2) ↗
Image & attribution
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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.
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