Saint Paul · SELF-GOVERNMENT

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Overprint / surcharge

SELF-GOVERNMENT — larger lettering; red ink

Designer

Not documented

Printer

Government Printing Office, Valletta (overprint); De La Rue (base stamp)

Printing process

Recess printing (base stamp)

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

Not documented

Watermark

Crown CC

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Blue-black

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Original Crown CC design, distinct from the Script CA reprint. Overprint setting and specimen authenticity are outside this catalogue entry. The 1964 study distinguishes larger overprint lettering on the 2/-, 2/6, 5/- and 10/- values and explicitly reports red overprints on 2/- and 10/-. This is a denomination-specific overprint description; ink colour is not inferred for the other values.

• The Canadian Philatelist, Vol.15 No.5 (1964), printed pp.218–219: 1922 overprint sizes and red ink; 1926–1927 values and colours; 1928 AIR MAIL continuation ↗
• Carmel G. Bonavia, Annus Paulinus 2008–2009: Saint Paul — A Protagonist in Maltese Philately, JMPS37(3), pp.15–17 ↗
• Spink, The Philatelic Collectors’ Series, 2019 sale19029, lots895 and898–903: physical collections with watermark identification ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

One ten-shilling basic overprint on the original Crown CC design; no errors, plate varieties or later watermarks.