MALTA¼dGeorge V · ¼dImage unavailable
1921–1922MALTA6dGeorge V · 6dImage unavailable
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1921–1922 / Heritage
George V · 6d
George V era — Multiple Script CA reprints
Denomination6d
Issue date1921–1922
Only this release range is established; the individual issue year remains unverified.
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
- Typography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedScript CA type and denomination supported. Exact release year within the series range needs contemporary notice verification.
- 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.