Authentic colour front scan; illustrative design/value match, not authentication of watermark, paper, perforation or exact shade
1919 / Faith & tradition
Shipwreck of Saint Paul
Saint Paul — Postage and Revenue reissue
The story behind the issue
The earlier Shipwreck design returned with dual-purpose wording and Multiple Crown CA paper. A March 1919 use is recorded; no exact release date is asserted here.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- De La Rue
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14
- Watermark
- Multiple Crown CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Black
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedSource says earliest recorded date 6 March; this is not treated as an official issue date. Quantity estimates are not treated as confirmed print runs.
- Carmel G. Bonavia, Annus Paulinus 2008–2009: Saint Paul — A Protagonist in Maltese Philately, JMPS37(3), pp.15–17 ↗
- Malta Postal Museum — Philately chronology ↗
Image & attribution
Government of Malta stamp; Smithsonian National Postal Museum / Arago scan, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Philafrenzy · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov), explicitly declared on exact Commons file page; pre-1949 colonial artwork
One documented high-value reissue only; no claim to a complete 1919 issue or year.
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