Authentic colour reproduction of an original stamp; front illustration, not authentication of watermark, paper, perforation or exact shade
1899 / Wirt
The shipwreck of Saint Paul
The first pictorial definitives
Valur nominali10/-
Data tal-ħarġa1899-02-04
L-istorja wara l-ħarġa
Four pictorial designs brought local boats, maritime history, an allegory of Malta and Saint Paul onto the island’s stamps. The lower values used Crown CA paper, while the two higher values used Crown CC.
Dettalji tekniċi
- Awtorità emittenti
- Malta Post Office
- Użu postali
- Posta
- Munita
- GBP pre-decimal
- Disinjatur
- Mhux dokumentat
- Stampatur
- De La Rue
- Proċess tal-istampar
- Line engraving
- Daqs tal-bolla
- Mhux dokumentat
- Bolol f’folja
- 60 stamps in five rows of 12
- Numru tal-pjanċa
- No plate number reported by Séfi
- Perforazzjoni
- Mhux dokumentat
- Filigrana
- Crown CC
- Karta
- Mhux dokumentat
- Kulur
- Deep blue / blue-black
- Kwantità
- Mhux dokumentat
Sorsi u verifika
VerifikatImmaġni u attribuzzjoni
Photo © WissensDürster, 2026, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0; resized and converted to WebP. Underlying 1899 Malta government stamp artwork is public domain. · Photograph: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Underlying government stamp artwork published 1899; expired government-work term. Changes: resizing and WebP conversion only.
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
