Authentic colour scan; source identifies issue, denomination and colour. Watermark and paper cannot be authenticated from the front image.
1922 / Arti u artisti
Melita and Britannia · 5/-
Melita definitives — original issue and principal changes
Valur nominali5/-
Data tal-ħarġa1922
L-istorja wara l-ħarġa
Self-government was expressed through Maltese allegorical figures. This group follows the main values and later colour or watermark changes, while keeping minor shades outside its scope.
Dettalji tekniċi
- Awtorità emittenti
- Malta Post Office
- Użu postali
- Posta
- Munita
- GBP pre-decimal
- Disinjatur
- Gianni Vella
- Stampatur
- De La Rue
- Proċess tal-istampar
- Typography
- Daqs tal-bolla
- Mhux dokumentat
- Perforazzjoni
- Mhux dokumentat
- Filigrana
- Multiple Script CA
- Karta
- Mhux dokumentat
- Kulur
- Orange-yellow and bright ultramarine
- Kwantità
- Mhux dokumentat
Sorsi u verifika
Parzjalment verifikatMain design, value and listed variant supported; full technical specification and exact issue date need further primary-record checking.
- Anthony Fenech, Edward Caruana Dingli’s Melita stamps, PSM Journal 30(1), 2001, pp.3–7 ↗
- Melita issue — secondary chronology cross-check ↗
- Malta Postal Museum — Philately chronology ↗
- M. E. Jetten, The £1 stamps of Malta, PSM magazine 1(3), autumn 1967, printed p.17 (full PDF p.19) ↗
Immaġni u attribuzzjoni
Malta Post Office (stamp issuer) Gianni Vella (stamp designer) eBay seller nigelstow (scan) · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov)
Eighteen standard entries across 1922–1926, including £1 watermark orientations. Minor shades, proofs, specimens, inverted watermarks and plate flaws excluded. Dates after the first five values are conservatively recorded by year.
