MALTA¼dOne Farthing on revised George V 2dImage unavailable
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1922 / Heritage
One Farthing on revised George V 2d
One Farthing provisional
Denomination¼d
Issue date1922-04-15
The story behind the issue
A local surcharge supplied a farthing stamp using stock of the revised twopenny design.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Underlying denomination
- 2d
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Government Printing Office, Valletta (surcharge); De La Rue (base stamp)
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe specimen's surcharge reads One Farthing over the underlying 2d. Final value is ¼d, not ½d. The day-level date is supported by Corinphila's archived description and secondary chronology; a contemporary postal notice has not yet been inspected. Shade, plate and surcharge varieties remain outside this base record.
- 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 ↗
- Neil Grover / Malta Study Circle, 1922 Self-Government UPU Specimens, 2011 — One Farthing on 2d ↗
- Corinphila auction 196, May 2015, printed p.324, lot 2137 — One Farthing on 2d, 15 April 1922 ↗
- Big Blue collector specimen image — surcharge inscription directly inspected, 1922 farthing on 2d ↗
Image & attribution
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One basic surcharge type; no plate, shade or surcharge errors included.
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