Authentic colour scan; source identifies issue, denomination and colour. Watermark and paper cannot be authenticated from the front image.
1926 / Wirt
Melita · POSTAGE · 2d
Melita — POSTAGE overprints
Valur nominali2d
Data tal-ħarġa1926-04-01
L-istorja wara l-ħarġa
Separating postage from fiscal use prompted an overprint on the current Melita values. A replacement definitive series began appearing shortly afterwards.
Dettalji tekniċi
- Awtorità emittenti
- Malta Post Office
- Użu postali
- Posta
- Munita
- GBP pre-decimal
- Disinjatur
- Edward Caruana Dingli
- Stampatur
- Government Printing Office, Valletta (overprint); De La Rue (base stamps)
- Proċess tal-istampar
- Mhux dokumentat
- Daqs tal-bolla
- Mhux dokumentat
- Perforazzjoni
- Mhux dokumentat
- Filigrana
- Multiple Script CA
- Karta
- Mhux dokumentat
- Kulur
- Mhux dokumentat
- Kwantità
- Mhux dokumentat
Sorsi u verifika
Parzjalment verifikatBasic issued overprint type; exact shade and overprint setting require specimen-level identification.
- Anthony Fenech, Edward Caruana Dingli’s Melita stamps, PSM Journal 30(1), 2001, pp.3–7 ↗
- Melita issue — secondary chronology cross-check ↗
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)
Fourteen basic issued values, excluding the unissued £1, errors, shifted overprints and minor shades.
