Detailed information of new issues : Flemish tapestries third issue

This is the third set of four stamps in the Flemish Tapestries series. The first set was issued on the 30th March 1977 and the second set on the 26th January 1978. These priceless 17th Century Tapestries were specially commissioned by Grand Master Ramon Pereilos, on his election in 1697, for the Cathedral of St. John in Valletta. The 1979 set reproduces four Tapestries woven from paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). [excerpt] ; N/A