MALTA€3.00Siege Bell Memorial, VallettaImage unavailable
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2017 / Heritage
Siege Bell Memorial, Valletta
Seventy-five years since Operation Pedestal
Denomination€3.00
Issue date2017-08-10
The story behind the issue
One miniature-sheet stamp; the memorial is by Michael Sandle.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Stamp format
- Miniature-sheet stamp
- Designer
- Cedric Galea Pirotta
- Printer
- Printex Limited
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- 31 × 44 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 47(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.
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