Authentic colour scan; source identifies issue, denomination and colour. Watermark and paper cannot be authenticated from the front image.
1925 / Wirt
Two pence halfpenny on Melita 3d
Melita — Two pence halfpenny provisional
Valur nominali2½d
Data tal-ħarġa1925-12-03
L-istorja wara l-ħarġa
A reduced foreign-letter rate required a provisional value. Existing threepenny stock received a local surcharge before a permanent replacement followed.
Dettalji tekniċi
- Awtorità emittenti
- Malta Post Office
- Użu postali
- Posta
- Munita
- GBP pre-decimal
- Disinjatur
- Mhux dokumentat
- Stampatur
- Government Printing Office, Valletta (surcharge); De La Rue (base stamp)
- Proċess tal-istampar
- Mhux dokumentat
- Daqs tal-bolla
- Mhux dokumentat
- Perforazzjoni
- Mhux dokumentat
- Filigrana
- Multiple Script CA
- Karta
- Mhux dokumentat
- Kulur
- Cobalt / ultramarine shades
- Kwantità
- Mhux dokumentat
Sorsi u verifika
Parzjalment verifikatFinal face value is 2½d; underlying value is 3d. Shade variants are deliberately grouped.
Immaġni u attribuzzjoni
Malta Post Office (stamp issuer) Edward Caruana Dingli (stamp designer) eBay seller dealingstamps (scan) · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov)
Base surcharge type only; cobalt and ultramarine shades grouped, without assigning a separate date to either shade.
Fl-istess ħarġa
Esplora din il-ħarġa ↗Ebda bolla oħra f’din il-ħarġa.