Antic castles of Order

    Sovereign Military Order of Malta  1993.10.11

    In issue: Stamp(s): 4    Souvenir sheet(s): 1   

    Printing: offset

    Issued in: sheets of 32 (4*8) stamps, 8 blocks per sheet

  • Perforation type: 13 ½x13 ½

    Subject:

    4 scudi. A fragment of antique engraving*



    Stamp number under catalogue Sassone: 434


  • Perforation type: 13 ½x13 ½

    Subject:

    4 scudi. A fragment of antique engraving*



    Stamp number under catalogue Sassone: 435


  • Perforation type: 13 ½x13 ½

    Subject:

    4 scudi. A fragment of antique engraving*



    Stamp number under catalogue Sassone: 437


  • Perforation type: 13 ½x13 ½

    Subject:

     

    4 stamps of 4 scudi. An antic engraving*

     

    Souvenir sheet  number under catalogue Sassone: 41

    Additional:

    *An the engraving - View of Rhodes (i. e. Rhodos, Rhodus), capital of the Greek island of the same name, around 1490.

    Woodcut from Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik (Nürnberg 1493), fol. xxvi verso. This is one of the famous realistic town views from Schedel’s work.

    Artist not known by name, included in Schedel’s work.

     

    Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 143x100