Immaculate Conception, Ħamrun

Technical details

Issuing authority

MaltaPost plc

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

EUR

Designer

Photographs by Mark Micallef Perconte

Printer

Printex Limited, Malta

Printing process

Offset lithography

Stamp dimensions

31 × 44 mm

Perforation

13.9 × 14.0 (comb)

Watermark

Maltese crosses

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Research notes: SEPAC set metadata says 17 August, but the contemporary diary and inspected original first-day covers both show 14 August 2018. The metadata date is rejected.

• John V. De Battista, contemporary postal diary, PSM 48(2), pp.30–31 ↗
• SEPAC member product — Festa II complete sheet; original specimen visually inspected ↗
• SEPAC member product — Festa II original first-day covers, both cancelled 14-08-18; original specimen visually inspected ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

Ordinary basic design/value types and source-supported major technical changes. Excludes postage dues, unchanged reprints, packaging repeats, private personalised labels, postal stationery, replicas, errors and minor varieties.