For the second year MaltaPost has participated in the SEPAC joint
issue. The theme chosen by SEPAC for this year was scenery which
consisted of artworks or photos from each country member of SEPAC.
From
this set MaltaPost chose a stamp that was included in a presentation
pack issued by all SEPAC members. SEPAC (Small European Postal
Administrations’ Cooperation) is a group of small postal
administrations that, once a year, produces a set of stamps with the
same theme. These postal administrations must be European and must have
more than 50 per cent foreign clients. But how did SEPAC begin? In 1994
the Philatelist Paolo de Rosa started organising his annual conferences
to discuss all the necessities of the small postal entities. All small
European postal administrations started organising conferences in 1999
and all De Rosa’s delegates attended to these conferences. Through the
years SEPAC has grown to such an extent that in 2005 and 2006 there
were two conferences.
In 2007 there were 11 members
that issued a joint issue with a theme that will remain the same till
2011. SEPAC has also an official logo for the use of its members. This
logo was shown for the first time on the 2007 joint issue. Members of
SEPAC are Aland Post, Faroe Islands Post, Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau,
Post Greenland, Guernsey Post, Iceland Post, Isle of Man Post, Jersey
Post, Liechtenstein Post Corporation, MaltaPost, Monaco Post, San
Marino Post and Luxembourg Post.
MaltaPost’s Philatelic
Bureau issued a set of four stamps on Wednesday 16 September portraying
typical scenes from the Maltese landscape entitled scenery. These
stamps portrayed four spectacular scenes which are: The powerful rough
seas at Qbajjar Gozo, the Gnejna watchtower built by the Knights of the
Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the salt pans at Qbajjar Gozo and a
view of the Ggantija Temples in Gozo. The stamps carried a face value
of e0.02, e0.07, e0.37 and e1.02 respectively. These stamps have been
designed by Stefan Attard and are 44.0mm by 31.0mm in size. All stamps
have been offset printed on Maltese Crosses watermarked paper by
Printex Limited and are available in sheets of 10. The e0.37 stamp
depicting the Qbajjar salt pans formed part of the joint stamp issue in
the SEPAC collection.
Source: independent.com.mt
