Authentic colour scan, upright single cropped from a tête-bêche pair; paper texture is not authenticated
1925 / Heritage
Provisional postage due · 1/-
Postage dues · provisional imperforate numerals
Denomination1/-
Issue date1925-04-16
The story behind the issue
Ten locally printed provisional denominations on unwatermarked wove paper, with paper colour distinguishing value groups.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage due
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Government Printing Office, Valletta
- Printing process
- Typography
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Imperforate
- Watermark
- None
- Paper
- Buff wove paper
- Colour
- Black
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe specimen-based study explicitly attributes this date and physical group. Independent contemporary corroboration of the first-sale day and specialist examination of the physical stamp remain open.
Research notes: All ten values are attributed to 16 April 1925 in the specimen study. Imperforate status is intrinsic to the original issue; tête-bêche arrangements or plate flaws are not additional basic stamps.
Image & attribution
Malta Government / Malta Post Office; scan uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Amitchell125 · Public domain — Commons explicitly declares PD-UKGov for this historical government work; published 1925, more than 70 years ago
Basic postage-due denomination/design types and documented major paper, watermark or perforation changes. Shade-only printings, plate flaws, errors, tête-bêche arrangements, multiples and unchanged reprints are excluded. Independent specialist verification remains open.
