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2017MALTA€0.59Bamboo fish-trap makingImage unavailable
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2017 / Culture & books
Bamboo fish-trap making
SEPAC — Traditional handcrafts
Denomination€0.59
Issue date2017-06-28
The story behind the issue
Four traditional handcrafts; fish-trap making bears the SEPAC logo.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Toni Calleja
- 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 47(1) ↗
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.