MALTA€1.00Operation Husky preparations — left photographImage unavailable
2018MALTA€1.00Operation Husky preparations — right photographImage unavailable
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2018 / Heritage
Operation Husky preparations — right photograph
Operation Husky: seventy-fifth anniversary
Denomination€1.00
Issue date2018-07-10
The story behind the issue
Three wartime photographs recall preparations for the Allied invasion of Sicily.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- MaltaPost, photographs courtesy of Heritage Malta
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 35 × 35 mm
- Perforation
- 13.75 × 13.75 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedResearch notes: The inspected complete set establishes three distinct designs, each €1.00; the nine-stamp sheet repeats them. Captions do not guess the identity of every person in each photograph.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement — Operation Husky ↗
- SEPAC member product — Operation Husky complete three-stamp strip; original specimen visually inspected ↗
- John V. De Battista, contemporary postal diary, PSM 48(2), pp.26–27 ↗
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.