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1921–1922MALTA10/-Saint Paul shipwreck · 10/-Image unavailable
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1922 / Heritage
Saint Paul shipwreck · 10/-
George V era — Multiple Script CA reprints
Denomination10/-
Issue date1922-01-19
The story behind the issue
A revised twopenny design and reprints on Script CA paper preceded the self-government commemorations. The higher shipwreck value retained its pictorial subject.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- De La Rue
- Printing process
- Recess printing
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedRelease date is supported by Bonavia’s archival study; finer technical attributes remain unverified.
- The Canadian Philatelist, Vol.15 No.5, September–October 1964, printed pp.217–218 (PDF pp.23–24) ↗
- Spink, The Philatelic Collectors’ Series, 2019 sale19029, lots895 and898–903: physical collections with watermark identification ↗
- Carmel G. Bonavia, Annus Paulinus 2008–2009: Saint Paul — A Protagonist in Maltese Philately, JMPS37(3), pp.15–17 ↗
Image & attribution
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Eight basic values on the new watermark, without minor shades or plate varieties. The group spans 1921–1922; group start is not a confirmed individual release year.