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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/79086| Title: | The Europa CEPT stamp issue |
| Authors: | Mercieca, John H. |
| Keywords: | Postage stamp design -- Europe Postage stamps -- Varieties Postage stamps -- Hungary Malta -- On postage stamps |
| Issue Date: | 1992-12 |
| Publisher: | Malta Philatelic Society |
| Citation: | Mercieca, J. H. (1992). The Europa CEPT stamp issue. The PSM magazine, 21(2-3), 16-19. |
| Abstract: | In 1956 six western European countries - France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) - each issued a set of two stamps of low face value, with the exception of Luxembourg which issued a set of three stamps, to commemorate the then recently established European Community of Posts and Telegraphs (CEPT). These six sets of stamps had one common design, ie the six letters of the word "Europa" (EUROPA) vertically arranged, giving the semblance of a tower. Each of the six sets were issued in the currency of the six different states. Thus the now most popular and perhaps the most widely collected philatelic theme in Malta as well as in many European countries - the Europa CEPT stamps - came into being. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/79086 |
| Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 1992 - 21(2-3) |
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