Maltese Cross postage due · unsurfaced paper · ½d

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage due

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

Not documented

Printer

Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.

Printing process

Not documented

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

12 (line)

Watermark

Not documented

Paper

Unsurfaced paper

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

The 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: The study attributes 21 July 1925 and classifies a sideways watermark as its type 4. The watermark pattern name has not been independently resolved here, so no guessed name is published in the technical field. The contemporary Said account identifies Bradbury Wilkinson as the printer of the permanent dues since 1925; its later photogravure statement is not applied backwards to this issue.

• John De Battista, Malta Postage Due Adhesive Stamps, PSM38(3), printed pp6–7: specimen-based physical classification ↗
• E. Said, The New Malta Postage Dues, PSM2(4), printed p16: contemporary issue and perforation observations ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

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.