MALTA¼dGrand Harbour · GRI · Brown · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
19481948-11-25 / Heritage
Self-Government 1947 · pictorial overprints
The current pictorial definitives received a diagonal overprint marking restored self-government. Red and black lettering were selected for different underlying colours.
15 stamp records · ¼d / ½d / 1d / 1½d / 2d / 2½d / 3d / 4½d / 6d / 1/- / 1/6 / 2/- / 2/6 / 5/- / 10/-
All fifteen original overprinted values, using the six 1943 colours where applicable. Base issued design/value/colour combinations only. Printing flaws, shade gradations, specimens, proofs and other specialist varieties excluded.
- The Postage Stamps of Malta, The Canadian Philatelist 15(5), September–October 1964, printed p.219 / PDF p.25: 1948 overprint direction, red ink and quarterpenny lettering ↗
- Carmel G. Bonavia · Annus Paulinus 2008–2009, Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society 37(3), pp. 17–19 ↗
- John M. Calleja, Antonius Manoel de Vilhena, JMPS30(2), August2001, specimen-study technical panels: printed pp6 and9 ↗
- Anthony Grech, Marian Stamp Album, supplement 2 (2003), PDF p. 1: four George VI 2d stamps and line perforation ↗
MALTA½dHMS St Angelo · Red-brown · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
1948
MALTA1½dĦal Saflieni Hypogeum · Blue-black · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum · Blue-black · Self-Government 1947
1½d
MALTA2dVictoria and the Citadel, Gozo · Scarlet · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Victoria and the Citadel, Gozo · Scarlet · Self-Government 1947
2d
MALTA2½dDe l’Isle Adam entering Mdina · Violet · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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De l’Isle Adam entering Mdina · Violet · Self-Government 1947
2½d
MALTA3dSaint John’s Co-Cathedral · Bright blue · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Saint John’s Co-Cathedral · Bright blue · Self-Government 1947
3d
MALTA4½dMnajdra ruins · Olive-green and yellow-brown · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Mnajdra ruins · Olive-green and yellow-brown · Self-Government 1947
4½d
MALTA6dStatue of Manoel de Vilhena · Olive-green and scarlet · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Statue of Manoel de Vilhena · Olive-green and scarlet · Self-Government 1947
6d
MALTA1/-Maltese woman wearing a faldetta · Black · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Maltese woman wearing a faldetta · Black · Self-Government 1947
1/-
MALTA1/6Saint Publius · Black and olive-green · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Saint Publius · Black and olive-green · Self-Government 1947
1/6
MALTA2/-Mdina Cathedral · Green and deep blue · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Mdina Cathedral · Green and deep blue · Self-Government 1947
2/-
MALTA2/6Statue of Neptune · Black and scarlet · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Statue of Neptune · Black and scarlet · Self-Government 1947
2/6
MALTA5/-Palace Square, Valletta · Black and blue-green · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Palace Square, Valletta · Black and blue-green · Self-Government 1947
5/-
MALTA10/-Saint Paul · Black and carmine · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
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Saint Paul · Black and carmine · Self-Government 1947
10/-