Authentic colour scan; source identifies issue, denomination and colour. Watermark and paper cannot be authenticated from the front image.
1922 / Art & artists
Melita — sideways watermark · £1
Melita definitives — original issue and principal changes
Denomination£1
Issue date1922
The story behind the issue
Self-government was expressed through Maltese allegorical figures. This group follows the main values and later colour or watermark changes, while keeping minor shades outside its scope.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Edward Caruana Dingli
- Printer
- De La Rue
- Printing process
- Recess printing
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14 comb
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA, sideways
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Black and carmine-red
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedMain design, value and listed variant supported. Jetten's 1967 technical account explicitly describes perforation 14 comb and the sideways watermark for the 1922 £1. Exact issue date and remaining technical specifications need further primary-record checking.
- Anthony Fenech, Edward Caruana Dingli’s Melita stamps, PSM Journal 30(1), 2001, pp.3–7 ↗
- Melita issue — secondary chronology cross-check ↗
- Malta Postal Museum — Philately chronology ↗
- M. E. Jetten, The £1 stamps of Malta, PSM magazine 1(3), autumn 1967, printed p.17 (full PDF p.19) ↗
Image & attribution
Malta Post Office (stamp issuer) Edward Caruana Dingli (stamp designer) eBay seller lerou.uk2014 (scan) · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov)
Eighteen standard entries across 1922–1926, including £1 watermark orientations. Minor shades, proofs, specimens, inverted watermarks and plate flaws excluded. Dates after the first five values are conservatively recorded by year.
