Verdala Palace · Green · Self-Government 1947

Dettalji tekniċi

Awtorità emittenti

Malta Post Office

Użu postali

Posta

Munita

GBP pre-decimal

Soprastampa / valur mibdul

SELF-GOVERNMENT 1947 — diagonal, reading downwards

Disinjatur

Mhux dokumentat

Stampatur

Waterlow & Sons

Proċess tal-istampar

Recess printing

Daqs tal-bolla

Mhux dokumentat

Perforazzjoni

12½

Filigrana

Multiple Script CA

Karta

Mhux dokumentat

Kulur

Green

Kwantità

Mhux dokumentat

Sorsi u verifika

The 1964 Canadian Philatelist study explicitly describes this denomination's diagonal SELF-GOVERNMENT overprint as reading downwards. This describes the 1948 overprint, not watermark orientation or a new printing type.

• 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 ↗

Immaġni u attribuzzjoni

Postal administration for Malta; original-stamp scan uploaded by Katharinaiv to Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov), explicitly declared on exact Commons file page; pre-1949 colonial artwork

• Sors tal-immaġni u liċenzja ↗

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.