Authentic colour scan; source identifies issue, denomination and colour. Watermark and paper cannot be authenticated from the front image.
1925 / Heritage
Two pence halfpenny on Melita 3d
Melita — Two pence halfpenny provisional
Denomination2½d
Issue date1925-12-03
The story behind the issue
A reduced foreign-letter rate required a provisional value. Existing threepenny stock received a local surcharge before a permanent replacement followed.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- 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
- Cobalt / ultramarine shades
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedFinal face value is 2½d; underlying value is 3d. Shade variants are deliberately grouped.
Image & attribution
Malta Post Office (stamp issuer) Edward Caruana Dingli (stamp designer) eBay seller dealingstamps (scan) · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov)
Base surcharge type only; cobalt and ultramarine shades grouped, without assigning a separate date to either shade.
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