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2016MALTA€0.26Branched asphodelImage unavailable
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2016 / The natural world
Branched asphodel
Maltese flora III
Denomination€0.26
Issue date2016-01-22
The story behind the issue
Maltese flora III.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Photographer
- Guido Bonett
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 20 × 38 mm
- Perforation
- 13.6 × 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 46(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.