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2022 / Heritage
Bedford OB, BXY 144 — Mosta livery
Maltese Buses II
Denomination€0.51
Issue date2022-02-12
The story behind the issue
Four restored Maltese buses in their historic route liveries.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost plc
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Photographer
- Frans Galea
- Designer
- MaltaPost
- Printer
- Printex Ltd
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 44 × 31 mm
- Perforation
- 14.0 × 13.9 (comb)
- Watermark
- Maltese Cross
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedBasic issue date, denomination and design are sourced. Independent specialist verification of paper, gum, watermark and perforation varieties remains open.
Research notes: The contemporary bilingual postal notice explicitly gives first sale on 12 February; SEPAC metadata gives 24 February. The postal notice is preferred pending an independently dated first-day specimen. Original and April reprint notices reverse the perforation numbers (14.0 × 13.9 / 13.9 × 14.0); no independent physical change is established and no duplicate reprint type is created.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement ↗
- SEPAC postal-administration issue page and original stamp illustration ↗
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Ordinary basic design/value types, including distinct miniature-sheet stamps. Repeated stamps in packs, booklets and sheet surrounds, personalised non-postal labels, unchanged reprints, errors and minor varieties are excluded. This is not an exhaustive specialist-variety claim.